The last tariffs on U.S. produce end, raising fears of a glut of cheap corn and beans wiping out local agriculture.Corn and beans are staples of the Mexican diet and subsistence crops for millions of farmers. Opponents of NAFTA said the free entry of relatively cheap U.S. corn would devastate rural Mexico and help spur more immigration.

In Mexico, where 80% of schools lack access to drinking water, Pepsi funds a new campaign to promote healthy diets among Mexican school children and challenges students to stave off obesity while selling them soft drinks!

First hand account of a Mexican-American man going to Peru to study under a shaman where he ingests various psychoactive substances and has countless lucid dreams, out of body experiences, and other wild adventures.

Mexican legislators, producers, and consumers are battling with the government over how best to control the rising price of corn tortillas, a centuries-old staple of the Mexican diet.

Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January. His plea was answered by doctors and nutritionists who prescribed a high-protein diet and suggested gastric bypass surgery, and Uribe has lost some 200 pounds since February.

The United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos ), or commonly Mexico (IPA: /ˈmɛksɪkoʊ/) (Spanish: México IPA: ), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bounded on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican States comprise a federation of thirty-one states and a federal district, the capital Mexico City, which is one of the world's most populous cities.Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest in the world. With an estimated population of 109 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.As a regional power and the only Latin American member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1994, Mexico is firmly established as an upper middle-income country.Mexico is the 12th largest economy in the world by gross domestic product (GDP) by purchasing power parity. The economy is strongly linked to those of its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time that an opposition party won the presidency from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional: PRI) which had held it since 1929, culminating the political alternation at the federal level, which had begun at the local level during the 1980s.