Mexico’s Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet admitted this week that the free textbooks issued to primary schools for the 2013-14 school year contain 117 spelling mistakes.

Former Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard launched his new Progressive Movement on Saturday as a platform for an expected bid for the presidency in the 2018 elections.

Mexico has surpassed the United States in levels of adult obesity, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported last month.

Mexican marines captured Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alias “Z-40,” the head of the notorious Zetas cartel, in the town of Anahuac, Nuevo Leon early on Monday.

The National Action Party (PAN) appears to have retained the Baja California governorship in last Sunday’s elections, which were marked by political mudslinging, a wave of violence and a cat that garnered thousands of votes in a mayoral race.

Following reports that the United States has been spying on Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto warned on Wednesday that such action would be “totally unacceptable.”