Enrique Pena Nieto

A major earthquake off Mexico's southern coast killed at least 15 people, with the president saying on Sept. 8 it was the biggest in a century to hit the country. Houses toppled and the quake produced tsunami waves and sent people running into the streets in panic.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 8.1 has struck in the Pacific off the southern coast of Mexico, killing at least three people, reported BBC. 

The epicentre was about 87km (54 miles) south-west of the town of Pijijiapan and at a depth of 70km, the United States Geological Survey said.

U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators are zeroing in on ways to enshrine Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's sweeping energy reforms into a modernized North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico's chief negotiator said on Sept. 3.

The House of Representatives approved a USD 68 billion increase in military spending for the 2018 fiscal year, USD 1.6 billion of which will be used to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Reuters reports.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Five months after the upper house of Mexico's Congress, the Senate, voted in favor of the legalization of medicinal marijuana, the lower house Chamber of Deputies has followed suit and has approved the impending legislation.

President Donald Trump on April 26 told the leaders of NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico that the United States will not immediately move to exit the regional free trade agreement.

The announcement followed U.S. media reports that Trump was considering giving formal notice of pulling the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner will appear before a Senate panel investigating Russian interference in the US election, the White House said Monday.

Kushner, 36, was Trump’s main intermediary with foreign governments during the 2016 election campaign and now plays that role in the White House.

Mexico's foreign minister has warned the United States that his country will impose tariffs on U.S. products if President Donald Trump taxes Mexican imports to finance a border wall.

"If Mexico is faced with this as a reality, not a rhetorical threat... the Mexican government will have to respond," Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray told Radio Formula on Feb. 24.

Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Feb. 12 to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both America and Mexico. 

Dorin Cioba, who is a Romanian citizen, has written to Trump saying that Roma people could do the job at a low cost because they suffer from high unemployment, Romanian media reported on Tuesday.