Mexico

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: A passenger attempted to hijack a domestic Mexican flight Sunday morning and forcibly divert it to the United States, according to the airline Volaris. The suspect, identified by Mexican authorities only as a 31-year-old Mexican national named Mario, assaulted a flight attendant and tried to enter the cockpit to divert the flight to the United …

Reuters reports: Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard [photo] said on Wednesday that a 25% across-the-board tariff proposed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would cause the loss of 400,000 jobs and slow growth in the United States, while also hitting Mexican exports. “It’s a shot in the foot,” he said in a morning press conference, adding that Mexico wanted more regional …