El Economista also reported that under the terms of the Mexico-EU Modernized Global Agreement (MGA) — which is to be signed on Friday — EU companies in Mexico and Mexican companies in the EU must receive the same treatment as local companies.

Authorities at Mexico City International Airport proposed converting a short-stay parking lot into a place for quick passenger pick-up and drop-off, but airport taxi service providers shot down the idea on Friday, creating a confusing scenario ahead of the World Cup.

As with the hantavirus, there are no confirmed cases in Mexico and the probability of a local outbreak is low, but the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization urge travelers to take precautions.

But the 9.9% increase in sales in the three World Cup cities also presents a logistical challenge: How to get all that beer to all those people gathered together in crowded areas in crowded cities?

The "Perfect Day Mexico" project will bring 20,000 cruise ship passengers per day to a huge water park complex at a tiny fishing village aside the world's second-largest reef and threatened mangrove forests.

The federal government's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) has blocked the bank accounts of Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former officials accused of drug trafficking by U.S. prosecutors in an indictment that was unsealed on April 29.

In Tin Tan, Germán Valdés created a new kind of character — the pachuco — and in doing so, became both a movie star and Mexico's first binational icon.

Also during today's press conference, Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Velasco claimed that the U.S. has not reciprocated a single extradition request from Mexico in the past eight years, which may serve as a bargaining chip in the criminal case against the former Sinaloa governor.