As I write this article Rick Santorum has just beaten Mitt Romney (we wrote about his family a while back) in both Missouri as well as Minnesota. Although no delegates were at stake there, it does make the race for GOP nomination more interesting. It would have been rather boring to see Mitt Romney trample his fellow GOP contenders just like that anyway. For now, Santorum gets to wear the momentum hat for a while and who knows what the next primary will bring us (Maine, with 24 delegates).

Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador to the United States, reacted this week to Texas governor Rick Perry's suggestion about deploying US soldiers to combat organized crime in Mexico. Sarukhan's reaction (and thereby the Mexican government's) was predictable: out of the question, as much as Perry made explicit that such a cooperation would be in full concert with the Mexican government.

War means money. It's an ancient piece of wisdom, and apparently it can be applied to Mexico as well. Animal Político reports today that US firms have made almost 200 million dollars off the struggle against organized crime in Mexico in the last four years.

If the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. Or so they say. All metaphors and folksy knowledge aside, anything happening north of the border usually has some degree of consequence here. So what would happen in Mexico if the members of US Congress can’t reach an agreement on the debt ceiling before Tuesday?