Only 813 primary and secondary schools in Jalisco out of 11,298 have taken the option of reducing the number of work days in the coming school year.

“Mexico: A gold medal for excuses,” ran one headline this week as the nation’s athletes failed to pick up a single medal in the first week of the Rio Olympics.  

Mexicans faced a double whammy this week, with increases in the costs of both gasoline and electricity. 

More than 12,000 tins of chiles have been appropriated from the warehouses of food producers La Costeña by federal health inspectors. 

For the first time, neither of Mexico’s two broadcasting giants, Televisa or TV Azteca, will be showing live coverage of the Olympic Games.

The  bodies of three Central American youngsters found washed up within the past week on disparate Pacific Ocean beaches in southern Mexico could spur this country, which many observers call exceptionally oriented toward children, to implement recent constitutional changes establishing the right for outsiders to seek asylum here, say human rights specialists working in the area.