#Enrique Peña Nieto

Author: Alan Feuer / Source: New York Times Tom Brenner for The New York Times [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo,

The Mexican peso has tumbled over 3% in the last 4 days, plunging to its weakest against the USDollar since March as the ongoing corruption investigation soured market sentiment. As we detailed yesterday, a deepening graft investigation involving Alejandro Gutierrez, a former deputy of sitting

The Mexican peso is plunging (down over 1% today) to its weakest against the dollar since March after a former deputy in the ruling party in Mexico was arrested as part of a graft inquiry. As Bloomberg reports, political uncertainty continued to weigh on the most-traded currency in emerging

Across central Mexico, rescue workers including soldiers and volunteers worked late into the night Tuesday to free the living who were still trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings following Mexico's deadliest earthquake in more than 30 years. The death toll from the 7.1 magnitude quake –

Update 9 (9:10 pm ET): The head of Mexico's National Civil Defense agency says the death toll from a major earthquake that rattled the center of the country has reached 139. Luis Felipe Puente said 64 people had died in the state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, though local officials