Just how many people were killed in Mexico during President Felipe Calderon’s six-year war on organized crime?

Former President Vicente Fox (2000-2006) is to convert his San Cristobal ranch in Guanajuato into a luxury hotel, his wife Marta Sahagun announced last weekend.

Of Mexico’s 1.58 million domestic workers, 44 ​​percent have no medical insurance and receive no benefits, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). There are 692,614 people working as maids, cooks, chauffeurs and other domestic staff without social security, INEGI revealed this week.

Mexican microbreweries increased production by 50 percent from 2011 to 2012, leading their share in the domestic beer market to rise from 0.46 to 0.65 percent.

Authorities in Mexico City have rounded up 54 stray dogs in a bid to find those they say were responsible for the deaths of five people over the last month.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that doctors in Mexico are too quick to prescribe antibiotics to their patients.