Mexico’s daily minimum wage will increase by 2.43 pesos as of January 1, 2013.

As the United States veers ever closer to the dreaded “fiscal cliff,” should Mexicans also be bracing themselves for an economic fall?

British weekly The Economist ran a special edition focused on Mexico last month, examining the problems, challenges and the potentially bright future facing the country.

Although newly installed as a lecturer at Harvard, Felipe Calderon will be entitled to a larger pension than any former president of other Latin American, U.S. or European states.

National Action Party (PAN) Senator Jorge Ruiz Preciado Rodriguez proposed a bill last week that would raise the drinking age in Mexico from 18 to 21.

President Enrique Peña Nieto gave the first indication of how he plans to fulfill a campaign pledge to reduce drug-related violence in Mexico this week.