They’re our neighbor to the south. We share the second largest border between two countries. We enjoy their food and celebrate their culture every year on May 5. But, what do we really know about the officially named United Mexican States?
It began with a conjugal visit, and ended with a bold attempt at a prison break.
Nineteen-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona used the privacy of the conjugal visit room in a Mexican prison to stuff her common law husband Juan Ramirez Tijerina -- who is serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 conviction for illegal weapons possession -- in a suitcase.
Not even gunfire can stop Barney.
A kindergarten teacher in Monterrey, Mexico named Martha Rivera Alanis has become a hero after she sang the purple dinosaur's 'If All the Raindrops' while a gang shootout took place outside.
It's not just drugs you shouldn't smuggle in from Mexico.
KOAT reports U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Santa Teresa, New Mexico seized 35 rolls of Mexican bologna from a pickup truck trying to enter the U.S. last Friday. And hold onto your Lunchables – at about 385 pounds, it could make some 400 sandwiches and is worth nearly $2,700.