• Mexico is home to the largest population of US citizens living abroad: at least 740,000 of the immigrants living in Mexico in 2015 were born in the US.
• Mexico’s border with the US is one of the busiest in the world: the Tijuana/San Ysidro land port saw 36.7 million persons crossing northbound in 2019.
• Mexico has catapulted into the top international destination for US air travel during the coronavirus pandemic, leaving behind Canada and the United Kingdom.
• Mexico was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2021-2022 period presenting challenges and opportunities.
• Mexico is among the top emitters of human generated sulfur dioxide in the world due to the intensive use of heavy fuel oil for electricity production, according to Greenpeace (2019).
• Mexico’s Caribbean island of Cozumel is the third busiest cruise port in the world (just behind behind Port Miami and Port Canaveral) with more than 4.6 million passengers and 1,366 cruises arriving in 2019.
• Mexico’s Sea of Cortez is home to the world’s smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, of which less than ten individuals are estimated to be alive. Urgent conservation efforts and actions against illegal fishing are crucial for it not to go extinct.
•Mexico’s tequila production reached record highs in 2019 and is one of the fastest-growing spirit categories around the world. Eighty-three percent of Mexican tequila exports go to the US.
•Mexicans are largely against (63%) the US designating Mexican drug trafficking groups as terrorist organizations. Despite high homicide levels, only 28% support the idea.
