The country’s political leaders are united around a shared reform agenda that is working, writes Enrique Peña Nieto

A medical diagnostics firm has landed an €8m deal with suppliers in Mexico that will see its products used across the country’s clinics and hospitals.

President Michael D Higgins kicks off an official visit to three countries in central America today.

President Barack Obama’s national security adviser has conceded there are legitimate questions about US spying on its allies, as America sought to soothe Brazil’s concerns about far-reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency.

ON MAY 26, 12 people aged 16 to 33 disappeared without trace after leaving Heaven, an after-hours club in the heart of Mexico City.

Barack Obama has discussed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programmes with the presidents of Mexico and Brazil, the White House said.

Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person.

A Frenchwoman freed from a Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television, has returned to Paris to a hero’s welcome.

MEXICO’S new president has vowed to demilitarise the campaign against drug cartels, but thousands of troops likely will remain in the field for years to come, spearheaded by US-favoured naval infantry.

Enrique Pena Nieto has taken the oath of office as Mexico’s new president, bringing the old ruling party back to power after a 12-year hiatus.

Mexico’s president-elect said the private sector must be allowed to help modernise his country’s state-owned oil company to increase productivity and make it more competitive.

Mexican authorities are recounting more than half the ballot boxes used in the presidential election after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies.

Mexico’s old rulers have claimed victory in a presidential election, ending 12 years in opposition after a campaign dominated by a sputtering economy and rampant drug violence.

Mexico’s old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage.

The party that ruled Mexico for most of the past century looked set for a comeback as voters chose a new president yesterday, seeking an end to a brutal drugs war and weak economic growth that have worn down the ruling conservatives.

Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the “inhuman” violence plaguing the country.