El Salvador's decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender set off a wave of political excitement across Latin America, with a growing list of governments in the region enthused about the idea of giving cryptocurrencies a try. You can scratch Mexico off that list. In a press conference earlier today, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ruled out the possibility of his country adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. "We are not going to change in that aspect. We think that we must maintain orthodoxy in the management of finances [and] not try to innovate much in financial management," the president said in response ... (full story)