It’s a dark time for Jalisco’s beef — according to Luis Enrique Villaseñor Gutierrez, who runs the state’s regional livestock union, Jalisco meat (no matter how good) is no longer accepted even in some other Mexican states due to low slaughterhouse standards.

“Heroines!” proclaimed headlines around Mexico Wednesday morning with news that Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz had won Mexico’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics.

Responding to public alarm following the grizzly murders last month of two young men from affluent families, President Felipe Calderon enacted a series of measures intended to stem a recent surge in kidnappings and address the growing perception that his government is unable to cull criminals from the ranks of its own security forces.

Ten-year-old Franco-Mexican bullfighting prodigy Michelito Lagravere is no doubt relieved to be back in Mexico doing what he does best – facing sharp horns in the ring and away from the debate.