Mexico Essentials

Mexico City’s VW Beetle Bugs have been superseded by new – and improved – taxi services

Mexico City's latest leap into modernity is in the shape of Line 4 of the Metrobus service. The new line, which went into service this past week, is...

Notwithstanding the drug-related problems, the overwhelming majority of foreign visits to Mexico remain trouble-free.

In an effort to stem the flow of illegal cash funds passing through Mexican banks and businesses, Mexico introduced a series of measures to limit the amount of foreign...

Mexico's peso has had a rocky history against the US dollar. Periods of stability have been followed by periods of great turmoil and resulting devaluations.

On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla freed the prisoners in the town of Dolores who had been locked up by the Spanish authorities and called on the...

Two new designs —for the $100 and $500 peso bills— complete a new series of banknotes in Mexico

In a bid to clamp down on email spam, Telmex and other major internet companies running WiFi spots in Mexico have shut down access to Port 25—the port most...

Drug-related violence in Mexico has been making news headlines again.

The latest survey published by Fortune has named Carlos Slim, Mexico’s foremost business mogul, as the world’s richest man, ‘dethroning’ Bill Gates. Carlos Slim’s fortune is now valued...

Although middle-class households in Mexico don’t receive as many publicity offers as their American, Canadian and European counterparts, direct marketing has started to gain some traction here; telemarketing is...

The Mexican government has been getting a head start on celebrations of the bicentennial anniversary of the Independence, and the centennial anniversary of the Revolution.