Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will be operated on next week to have a benign "thyroid nodule" removed just months after the 47-year-old was sworn in.

"On Wednesday July 31, President Enrique Peña Nieto will undergo surgery to have removed a thyroid nodule" the statement said, without offering more details on the president's condition.

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