A state politician who referred to Brazilian soccer ace Ronaldinho –  the 34-year-old former Barcelona star signed recently by Liga MX team Queretero – as “an ape” has been ditched by the National Action Party (PAN).

Astonishingly, only two percent of domestic workers in Mexico receive benefits of any kind, according to researchers from two universities in Mexico City.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is committed to doing more to accelerate the growth of the internet in Mexico.

Mexico City’s new state-of-the-art, 9.2-billion-dollar airport will be among the most advanced in the world and  become the main hub for Latin America within a few decades, Mexican government officials are boasting.

Proportional representation, or PR, the electoral system that seeks to create a representative body that reflects the overall distribution of public support for each political party, is anathema to many politicians in democratic nations such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. A major argument against PR, they say, is that it produces weak governments. However, there are dozens of other countries – including Mexico – that incorporate PR into their electoral processes under the argument that it’s a fairer system for all parties involved.

At the same time California Governor Jerry Brown and Enrique Peña Nieto traded compliments this week, a survey was released showing that almost two-thirds of Mexicans are unhappy with his presidency.