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Elon Musk's electric car company joins other firms investing south of the US border.
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Just maybe, given that they've just done their Mock Examinations, my Year 13 pupils might be predisposed to revisiting why Foreign Direct Investment like this is so vital to countries like Mexico.
On the demand-side, it represents an injection into the circular flow of income, and might allow some people to break free of the poverty trap. On the supply-side, not only does it increase the Mexican economy's productive capacity, but it might also facilitate the transfer of technology in a high-tech sector. Of course, there's an evaluative angle to both these aspects - to what extent will any factor incomes remain in Mexico, and is it the appropriate technology for Mexico, for example.
But it's just a rich source of a real world example of why FDI is so powerful.