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The Digital Economy Law for Digital and Electronic Payments could conceivably become law this week, though it will probably take some time to iron out details.

The second report in MND's new Well-being Series compares Mexico to OECD nations across eight education indicators, from early childhood enrollment and class sizes to teacher qualifications and educational attainment rates.

The three females and one male bring genetic diversity to Mexico's rhino population, but flying several tonnes of horned beasts on a cargo plane for 12 hours was no easy task.

Missing-persons search groups, frustrated by a lack of cooperation from authorities, made the decision to protest by blocking commuters from entering the capital, at the risk of alienating would-be supporters.

Despite a rich variety of agave-derived liquors, Mexico's Ministry of Agriculture assures the public that more are possible.

After the Energy Ministry gave a progress report on its fuel theft, or huachicol, crackdown, President Sheinbaum on Wednesday dispelled rumors that Mexico would agree to purchase more natural gas from the U.S. in order to win tariff relief.

From illegal construction and controversial golf course tree culling to new drinking fountains and yet more hurricane impacts, life in Puerto Vallarta has not been dull lately, writes Debbie Slobe.

Amalia Hernández’s Ballet Folklórico de México will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a tour to 24 cities in the United States, beginning on Jan. 30 in Northridge, California, and concluding on March 23 in Austin, Texas.

“It’s a shorter flight from New York to Mexico than from New York to Los Angeles, so you can see why we’d be interested,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Tuesday.

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Mexico on Monday suspended chicken imports from Brazil, the world’s largest chicken meat exporter, following reports of a Newcastle disease outbreak in that country.

Mexico’s economy grew 3.7% year over year in September, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted data published on Tuesday by the national statistics agency INEGI.

Twelve delegations brought music, masked dancers and coastal traditions to Oaxaca’s first Afro Guelaguetza on Monday, celebrating Afro-Mexican heritage and highlighting communities that officials said had long lacked recognition.

Federal agents at the Oaxaca International Airport seized US $365,865 and nearly 6,000 pesos ($326) that a passenger arriving from Dallas, Texas, was carrying in his luggage.

Mexico’s midterm elections are set for June 2027, and the ruling party Morena has a commanding lead in national electoral preferences with 46% of voter intention, according to an Oct. 19 poll by the newspaper El Financiero.

Mexico hopes to receive a favorable response from the U.S. to its request for lower tariffs on steel, aluminum and vehicles before the end of the year, Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Monday.

A U.N. committee responsible for monitoring the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance again pressed the General Assembly to take up the issue of disappearances in Mexico.

A little over two weeks after the return of high season in Los Cabos, the event calendar is already in full swing.

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Sheinbaum agrees a trade deal with the U.S. is “very close”: Asked about Trump’s Monday claim that a deal is near, the president said “there are still some [unresolved] issues,” but “a lot of progress has been made.”

Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology is currently hosting a unique exhibition featuring works resulting from creative collaborations between Mexican master artisans and designers from Syria, Lebanon, Iran and India, as part of a cultural exchange…

Daniel Alejandro Cruz Romero won a silver medal and Valeria Linett Juárez Martínez won a bronze medal at the World Karate Championships in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, a five-day event that finished on Sunday.

A museum in southern Mexico devoted to Maya textiles has opened a conservation laboratory to help preserve its 3,400-piece collection.

Disgruntled healthcare workers will take to the streets of Mexico City again this Wednesday, eight days after participating in a large protest march to demand higher pay, better working conditions, increased funding for healthcare and an end to shortages…

Published annually since 2000, TIME magazine’s list of the best inventions recognizes products and developments that transform the way we live, work and relate to the world.

A second major march in a week drew some 10,000 people protesting the unresolved issue of contaminated water in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, but alleged infiltrators turned the otherwise peaceful demonstration violent.

The former attorney general of Chihuahua, César Jáuregui, was taken into federal custody Sunday on a charge of treason related to allegations that U.S.

Members of Mexico’s Ministry of National Defense (Defensa) arrested five alleged members of the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, seizing weapons, a vehicle and tactical equipment, in two separate operations on Friday and Saturday.

This week, we take a look at local authorities in Zapopan who have come under fire for the city’s heavy reliance on euthanasia of homeless cats and dogs.

Health authorities in the state of Yucatán have detected in six artificial lakes the same brain-eating amoeba that caused the death of a 34-year-old man last month.

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds ⚰️ Another Mexican dies in ICE custody: Sheinbaum acknowledged the death of Emiliano Andrade Covarrubias, 56, who died at a Texas detention center on Saturday.

Mexico’s annual headline inflation rate increased for a second consecutive month in September, rising to 3.45%, the national statistics agency INEGI reported Thursday.

Mexico’s auto parts production registered record figures in July, while the country’s automotive industry experienced double-digit declines in both vehicle production and exports in September.

State and federal authorities are examining a property in Nayarit that was described by the state attorney general as an “extermination center” and “another version of the Izaguirre Ranch” — a site in Jalisco where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)…

Readers of the highly regarded magazine Condé Nast Traveler have named two Mexican towns — Puerto Vallarta and San Miguel de Allende — as the second- and fourth-best small cities in the world.

Old tires and tree trunks are getting a second life in Toluca, where municipal workers are turning recovered materials into playground equipment, benches and tables for the city’s parks.

Isaias, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, is whipping past the Yucatán Peninsula on its approach to the U.S.

A couple of weeks ago, we told you all about Día de Muertos and Halloween in Mexico City, so this week, it’s time for something a little different.

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Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds ✈️ AIFA now serves 40 domestic and 7 international destinations: Airport director Isidoro Pastor Román said that since opening in March 2022, the Army-built airport has grown the number of destinations it serves from sev…

While Mexico has long been seen as an inexpensive country to live in (especially by those who don’t live here), the reality is more complicated.

Vera Tiesler is a Maya expert and professor of anthropological sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucatán in Mexico.

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus has announced a water-rationing plan for the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (ZMG) amid growing concerns over citywide water contamination.

The eastern coast of Mexico made it through September without a hurricane as the Atlantic basin recorded its first hurricane-free September in more than three decades.

This week we look at where and how Jalisco’s competitiveness ranking has fallen in 2026 in relation to other states, what the new SIAPA director has been up to in lieu of briefing the state Congress, and long-awaited new rules for electric scooter riders.

The “super peso” that strengthened the Mexican currency’s exchange rate to under 17 per dollar for more than a week in late August and early September won’t be returning any time soon, according to the Citi Survey of Expectations published on Tuesday.

Mexico’s trade surplus with the United States increased more than 20% year over year in the first eight months of 2026, climbing to almost US $156 billion as Mexican exports to the U.S. reached a record high.

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Head of the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (Semarnat) Alicia Bárcena said during an appearance before the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday that Mexico does not currently have the conditions for fracking, contradicting reports by local media clai…

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds 🇲🇽 Sheinbaum signs decree barring future presidents and governors from holding dual nationality: The decree formalizes a constitutional reform requiring exclusive Mexican nationality for presidential, gubernatorial and M…

THE MND SHEINBAUM INDEX™ Measuring Mexico’s president beyond the polls MND Intelligence · Sixth edition Welcome to the sixth edition of the MND Sheinbaum Index™, an eight-pillar index designed to give our readers balanced, data-driven insight into the cur…