Having recently slipped into third place in the polls, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) came out swinging in Mexico’s second presidential debate at the Expo Guadalajara on Sunday.

The Ministry of Tourism revealed this week that 4,098,750 tourists visited Mexico from January to April this year, 5.3 percent more than in the same period in 2011.

Websites such as Twitter and Facebook have already had an impact on Mexico’s first presidential election in the age of the social network.

The indigenous people of the Sierra Madre rejected a government pledge to return land from a Canadian mining company.

An opinion poll released May 31 by the Reforma newspaper chain shows leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador just four percentage points behind frontrunner Enrique Peña Nieto.

Employment and quality job creation were the focus of last week's G-20 Labor and Employment Ministerial Meeting.