The return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has provoked the biggest political awakening of Mexico’s youth since the late 1960s. The students that comprise the #YoSoy132 movement could now play a vital role as a national watchdog and a catalyst for reform.

Mexico expects to receive a record high of at least 24.6 million foreign tourists in 2012, Tourism Secretary Gloria Guevara revealed on Friday.

Following a recount of more than half the votes, Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has confirmed Enrique Peña Nieto as the winner of the July 1 presidential election.

Remittances sent from Mexicans living abroad in the month of May rose by 7.8 percent to 2.3 billion dollars, the highest figure since October 2008.

An U.S. intern working at the Associated Press news agency in Mexico City has been found dead in an apartment building near where he was living in the Condesa neighborhood.

At least 750,000 ordinary Mexican citizens served as polling station officers in Sunday’s federal and state elections.