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The transatlantic relationship had grown somewhat snippy in recent years over a 500-year-old issue, but diplomats from both nations agree that over the last year the tiff has mellowed and the relationship has "strengthened" considerably.
While several Americans of Mexican descent flipped congressional seats, two in particular made history by becoming the first Latino governors of California (Xavier Becerra) and Texas (Gina Hinojosa) — those two states themselves being American of Mexican descent.
Corporate strategists at Chipotle Mexican Grill are scrambling to revise their crisis management protocols after diners in Nuevo León inexplicably seem to like the chain's food.
The latest MND Economy Index™ score — based mainly on data for August 2026 — was 74.5, the highest result since we created the index. Find out where Mexico's economy is getting stronger.
Over 100 "Well-being Fairs," nearly US $130 million toward forestry initiatives, six new highway projects and more than 800 other "Plan Michoacán" actions still to come. Read on for the government's progress report one year into the statewide safety and development strategy.
High season has returned to Puerto Vallarta, just in time for visitors to assist sea turtle hatchlings on their first perilous journey to the sea.
The inaugural program includes music by Tan Dun, winner of an Academy Award and a Grammy for the soundtrack to the 200 film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
News spread on Tuesday of a potential visit by Pope Leo XIV to the Basilica of Guadalupe in 2027. A statement by Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada added to the confusion.
In a show of love and respect, residents in Pomuch, Campeche, clean the bones of their dearly departed every year before their spirits return on Mexico's Day of the Dead.
The US $5.3 billion project, which broke ground in September 2025, is being developed in Mexico’s Bajío region, which hosts global manufacturing, agribusiness and technology companies.
A Democratic majority in one or both chambers might defuse U.S.-Mexico tensions, but it could also backfire, emboldening Trump to make more demands on Sheinbaum's government. Here's what experts have to say.
Mexico's Energy Ministry is reportedly looking to the battery energy storage system (BESS) market for help integrating more solar and wind power plants while helping to maintain the stability of the electrical grid.
Trade in goods between the two North American countries was worth 34.42 billion Canadian dollars (CAD) in the first eight months of 2026, a year-over-year increase of 18.3%.
The 17-year-old native of Monterrey, Nuevo León, gave Mexico its first medal at the Youth Olympic Games, an Olympic-level global competition that was postponed for four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Day of the Dead boat parade, "Altars at Sea," returns to Los Cabos this week, as does the PGA Tour's World Wide Technology Championship tournament.
The culprit is the avocado seed weevil (Curculionidae), a snout beetle that penetrates the skin and lays one or two eggs inside the fruit, from which the larvae push through to the seed where they incubate and emerge as adults.
On Tuesday, President Sheinbaum declined to express an opinion on the U.S. congressional races but made an exception for one gubernatorial candidate.
“We want to see a return to socializing in the schoolyards, conversations in the hallways and the focus and friendships that flourish in the classroom,” Mexico's education minister said.
Bob Pateman explores why the vaquita porpoise is nearing extinction in Mexico’s Gulf of California and whether conservation efforts can save the species.
A new connector meant to improve access to the recently inaugurated Nichupté Bridge is part of a federally assisted project to improve traffic flow in the crowded resort city.
Inés Gómez Mont was arrested in Miami on Friday for overstaying her U.S. visa, approximately 13 months after her husband, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, was arrested by ICE in Miami. Their extradition to face fraud and embezzlement charges in Mexico is pending.
She's María Montserrat Alvarado, 39, a laywoman who moved from Mexico City to Miami as a child and as of Sunday is the Vatican's new communications chief — a ministry-level department.
The return of Mexican driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez to Formula 1 with Cadillac electrified the grandstands at Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez this past weekend, where the three-day Grand Prix drew a record-breaking 405,363 fans.
Medical tourism to destinations like Cancún and Playa del Carmen has shown remarkable resilience, even as sun-and-sand visits are declining. The reasons: The quality of care has achieved a good reputation and most clinics are a safe distance from sargassum.
Business leaders in Jalisco are at odds over the impacts of the Guadalajara water crisis on investment, while a new designation of origin seal could boost visibility for the state's most iconic products.
Uruapan Mayor Grecia Quiroz led a "justice and peace" march in Uruapan on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of her partner, Mayor Carlos Manzo, who was killed during a Day of the Dead event on Nov. 1, 2025.
The only men's German soccer club to have played a match at Mexico City’s Estadio Banorte (Azteca) is Bayer Leverkusen, which did so in 1996. League leader Bayern Munich is interested in becoming the second.
Calvillo, 45, was originally from the state of Aguascalientes and resided in Oklahoma City, where he worked as the Community Relations Director for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
The deployment has the aim of "preventing criminal activity and ensuring the peace and safety of Tamaulipas families," Mexico's federal Security Cabinet said, after a series of retaliatory road blockades and shootouts erupted in and around the border city of Matamoros.
One of Oaxaca's premier gastronomic events — the Oaxaca Food, Wine, Craft Beer and Spirits Festival — returns in February 2027. Organizer Donna Shields dishes on all the details.
Discover the ancient Mexica legend of cempasúchil, Mexico’s flower of the dead, and how its golden-orange blooms became an iconic symbol.
Three weeks after his power was cut off, a Baja man decided to lodge a creative protest at his local CFE office.
Discover La Octava in Tepoztlán, where Day of the Dead traditions continue beyond November with family altars, marigolds and music.
Mexico City has grown a record 10 million cempasúchil plants ahead of Day of the Dead, with flowers available across the capital and free celebrations planned. Learn more about it with MND Tutor.
MND contributor Sarah DeVries explores how Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrates lost loved ones and offers a different way of understanding death.
Connectivity, corruption and cempasúchil flowers. Have you been paying attention to the news this week?
The week of Oct. 26 in Mexico started with a corruption scandal at the National Electoral Institute (INE) and ended with the death of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a towering figure of Mexico's democratic transition. Read on for more top headlines of the week.
Halloween or Día de Muertos? If you've grown up in California but moved to Mexico, there are reasons to celebrate both, writes Alan Chazaro.
Many Mexicans do in fact celebrate Halloween, writes Andrea Fischer, although such observations are not as common as those for Day of the Dead, nor as culturally important.
After the death of a Mexican green card holder in ICE custody, Travis Bembenek looks at what is happening in the U.S., and why.
Are you 'Confidently Wrong' about Mexican exports? Tune in to this week's podcast and find out.
The state-owned company aims to expand its electricity transmission network by nearly 7% during the current administration, compared to growth of less than 1% over the previous eight years.
Amb. Cameron MacKay said that more Mexican capital flowing to Canada would not only narrow the investment gap but also give Mexican companies a favorable tax rate and an end run around the declining U.S. interest in North American investment.
The suspect, identified only as Salvador N, 58, was stopped a block from Parque España Friday morning because he resembled a suspicious individual appearing in social media posts.
ICE has announced the capture and detainment of numerous migrant monarch butterflies illegally transiting through the U.S.
The capital claimed a world record with the 11-story Catrina statue, part of it's "mega-ofrenda" celebrating Day of the Dead.
Though Mexico's 3Q GDP grew over 2Q GDP, its rate of growth was considerably less than the 2Q's rate of growth over the first quarter, mainly because this year's 2Q growth was exceptionally strong.
The president reflected on Mexican beliefs about death, before addressing a tribute to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Spain train crash that left one Mexican missing.
Bel Woodhouse turns her gift for colorful illustration to one of her favorite celebrations in this look at Mexico's iconic Day of the Dead ofrendas.
One of Jalisco's most notable institutions of higher learning is also a masterpiece of design, thanks to the vision and lifelong commitment of architect Fernando González Gortázar.
Erosion along a 30-kilometer stretch of Tabasco coastline has reached 85% and mangrove forests are thinning at an alarming rate. A brigade of local residents is receiving a crash course on how to contain the damage and save the protective dunes.
The security incident triggered the temporary closure of the international bridges between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros.
A three-time presidential candidate and co-founder of the PRD, he was widely believed to have won the 1988 presidential election, before becoming Mexico City's first elected mayor.
Chipotle's foray into Mexico was viewed with doubts that Mexico's traditional cuisine could work with U.S.-style fast-food service. But Chipotle's "fast-casual" status, as opposed to Taco Bell's failed "fast-food" approach, won the day.
This weekend's F-1 event in the Hermanos Rodríguez circuit, which is expected to draw 400,000, will feature the return to Mexico of Guadalajara's Checo Pérez to race against his former teammate, five-time Mexico City GP winner Max Verstappen.
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada is pushing for rent reforms, plus news on a future NFL game possibly featuring the Dallas Cowboys and a series of alleged pet poisonings in a local park.
From budgets to bullying, Mexico in Numbers breaks down the data on how Mexico's education system ranks compared to other OECD countries.
Senior officials honored Cárdenas, the late opposition leader who challenged the PRI’s grip on power, while Sheinbaum blasted Mexico’s electoral chief, who resigned this week amid corruption allegations.
After living in Querétaro for almost two years, Mark Arcuri has come to some realizations about the challenges of moving to Mexico, while also recognizing the rewards.
The start of formal negotiations converts into action an understanding reached by President Sheinbaum and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Canada in June 2025.
Since 2025, the online rental platform's nonprofit arm has provided more than 6,000 free stays in Mexico for people needing urgent medical care and for victims of natural disasters or domestic abuse.
"I think we're going to continue encouraging [data centers'] installation and operation in our country," Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, because they will allow Mexico to strengthen its technological capabilities and its participation in the development of AI.
Despite canceled flights from numerous airlines, Tulum will continue to welcome tourists thanks to a new partnership with Uber.
Multiple dogs fell ill after taken for walks in the popular Parque España in the Condesa neighborhood, where blue capsules filled with white powder were later found in sausage meat. At least three of the stricken pets died.
The Navy Ministry said that its personnel, in coordination with federal Security Ministry agents, "repelled an armed attack" near the community of Alfredo V. Bonfil, Sinaloa, killing González and one other.
On Wednesday, rainfall totals of 75 to 150 millimeters are expected in central and southern Sinaloa, Nayarit, Durango, the southern tip of Baja California Sur and the coast of Jalisco.
Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus headlined the president's Wednesday presser to announce a "historic agreement" between state and federal authorities to clean up the Guadalajara metropolitan area's water supply after months of escalating protests.
A packed events calendar accompanies the return of high season in Puerto Vallarta, from Día de Muertos celebrations and weekly tianguis to one of only two PGA golf tournaments held annually in Mexico.
Officers are alleged to have physically and verbally abused dozens of demonstrators protesting foul tap water in Guadalajara on Oct. 11, later holding them for hours in dismal conditions and, in some cases, torturing them.
The Mexican marigold is an essential part of Day of the Dead traditions, as an adornment on altars, or, for those who take the dead's visitations literally, as a path of strewn petals leading the departed to the door.
Though dinosaurs freely roamed what is now Mexico, footprint sites are not as common as one might think: there are only 30 nationwide. The newly discovered fossilized prints appear to be from three different species, one of which could turn out to be a tyrannosaur.
The decree might have prevented the shipment of the prized Gelman Collection of emblematic Mexican artworks to Spain, but it raises complicated legal questions such as where the balance lies between property rights and a nation's sovereignty over its cultural heritage.
As local tourism service providers protested rising dock fees, Bisbee's Black and Blue fishing tournament concluded with the largest single payout in its legendary history.
Mexico's exports were worth US $77.79 billion in September, with exports of electric and electronic equipment and devices increasing 94.7%.
Four new wastewater plants are being built and six plants are being renovated alongside environmental rehabilitation actions to restore the health of Mexico's third-largest lake.
Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) general director Zoé Robledo presented a plan aimed at improving conditions in IMSS hospitals and for IMSS workers, who have been protesting for higher pay, reduced workloads and an end to shortages of medicines and medical supplies.
Corral, 35, who scored 49 goals across 49 matches for Club Pachuca Femenil and the women's national team, shared the honor with English forward Harry Kane of Bayern Munich.
Called a "milestone of stop-motion animation" by Guillermo del Toro, "Soy Frankelda" is a Mexican film that's a perfect Halloween watch for the entire family, writes Carolina Alvarado.
The National Action Party (PAN) has now announced its presumptive gubernatorial candidates in six states after unveiling its pick in Querétaro on Sunday.
A newly created Advisory Council for the Digital Transformation of the Health Sector is charged with improving the procurement and distribution of supplies for the more than 16,000 IMSS hospitals and health centers.
The Mexican conglomerate's U.S. copper production fell sharply in the third quarter, forcing a downward revision of the 2026 target production to 1.026 million tonnes in 2026, from the previous 1.034 million. The company's response is to double down.
The film, directed by Bruno Santamaría Razo, won both the Ojo for best Mexican feature and the audience award in the same category.
Two of Aeroméxico's three new U.S. routes are recovered from suspended previous routes, made possible by a U.S. decision to lift restrictions. The Milan connection is a first for Cozumel.
The outgoing INE president reportedly has a close personal relationship with a businessman whose family’s companies have received lucrative INE contracts during her time in office.
Over the weekend, national trucking associations said the indefinite national strike could involve as many as 1 million trucks, while warning the public of potential disruptions to the supply of goods and fuel.
"It's the triumph of a president, of a people's movement, of a government that represents its people," Sheinbaum said of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (Lula) reelection on Sunday. She also responded to the news that Guadalupe Taddei would resign from her post as president of Mexico's National Electoral…
María Lorena Ramírez Hernández, an Indigenous ultramarathon runner originally from the Sierra Tarahumara in the state of Chihuahua, will lead the delegation.
In the spirit of Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects," Bob Pateman identifies 10 that have forever changed the history of Mexico.
Not only is a new park coming to Guadalajara, but one of the world's most famous authors will keynote the 2026 FIL Guadalajara, Latin America's premier book fair, writes Dawn Stoner.
Novelist and diplomat Carlos Fuentes chronicled the history of Mexican politics like no one else before, weaving narratives filled with intrigue and insight.
Not only is the U.S. unwilling to forgo tariffs in trade negotiations with Mexico, but it also wants to tax the negotiations.
Mezcal is a drink synonymous with Mexico. In this Oaxacan distillery, Zapotec traditions are at the heart of everything they do.
Sofía Robleda's newest novel, "The Other Moctezuma Girls," offers an entertaining mix of Mexican history and drama, infused with real moral force, writes MND book reviewer Ann Marie Jackson.
This small island in Oaxaca hosted an Afro-Mexican festival, celebrating heritage through traditional music, dance and coastal culture. Learn all about it with MND Tutor.
La Carrera Panamericana is the most storied and legendary event in Mexico's rich history of auto racing, as writer Alan Chazaro details while the 2026 race makes a pit stop in Veracruz.
Classic Mexican brand-name candies aren't just sweet; they can be salty, spicy, tart or all of the above! Sarah DeVries guides you through the basics.
Mexico’s hopes for U.S. tariff relief shared the spotlight this week with a CIA-linked treason case, clean-water protests and scrutiny of the government’s fuel-theft crackdown.
Chickens, commissioners and Claudia Sheinbaum. Have you been paying attention to the news this week?
On the 20th anniversary of Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's modern classic, "Pan's Labyrinth," writer Carolina Alvarado reveals some surprising facts about the Oscar-winning film.
Why hasn’t Mexico engaged its diaspora in the U.S. like India has? MND CEO Travis Bembenek explains the business and cultural opportunities at stake.