It is presumed there could have been illegal payouts to lawmakers when support was being lobbyied for Mexico’s energy reform...

By Ian Paul Otero and Alejandro González* The economy of Mexico, like that of many other countries, is going through a...

For mortal beings like us, time is the quintessential non-renewable natural resource. Managing time is crucial for the leader of...

Mexico's 2021 midterm campaign season has started and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has presented the strategy he thinks...

As this piece goes to print, the Democratic-led House and the Republican-led Senate are in a tussle over the second...

From generalized and unpunished corruption, Mexico has moved now to centralized and purified corruption. What is left is the same...

1 NGI's Andrew Baker writes about how Mexico's energy regulator (CRE) is losing independence according to some of its former...

A few years back when Condé Nast Traveler chose San Miguel de Allende as the best city in the world,...

TREND: Mexico is currently grasping with how to navigate its new reality as a destination country for migrants and refugees,...

In the mind of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexicans have two options in front of them: to support...

• AGAINST: Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said today that he does not wear a face mask because according...

Last week a purported video from the criminal group known as Jalisco Nueva Generación widely circulated in social media. The...

• PAYMENTS: Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht funneled US $4 million to the 2012 presidential campaign of now former Mexican president...

• MILITARIZATION: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's decision to transfer the management of Mexico's seaports and merchant shipping from civilian...

• OVERHAUL: The López Obrador administration and Mexico's top business lobby (CCE) have agreed on an overhaul of the country's...

• FACE MASKS: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) dismissed today the positive impact that face mask use could have...

• SPENDING: The Mexican federal government's spending on health care fell short than originally projected during the first five months...

A news item that has caused justified indignation is the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)'s purchase of 2 million tons...

• CONTROVERSY: The Mexican Supreme Court has scheduled a debate for next week over an opinion draft that establishes that...

Like so many other things in life, organized crime works and adapts to the environment in which it operates: when...

1 Former US Congressman Ron Paul writes about how for him USMCA has little to do with free trade: https://mises.org/power-market/nafta-20-free-trade-or-central-planning...

It seems inexplicable that 43 young people disappear one night in the state of Guerrero in September 2014, and we...

• DECISIVE: Mexico enters a decisive week with the Lower House of Congress poised to elect four new counselors of...

The July 8 visit by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the United States was characterized by a...

It was not difficult to tame the Covid-19 pandemic.  In the words of Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis: “It was...

• EXTRADITION: The former head of Mexico's state-owned company (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya, is set to arrive in Mexico late Thursday...

By Enrique Perret Erhard * Many have defined competitiveness as the ability of countries, regions, or cities to attract and retain...

• INDUSTRY: Fake versions of an antimalarial drug allegedly containing hydroxychloroquine were detected in Mexico's pharma supply chain, the Mexican...

• NEAR-MONOPOLY: The annulment in 2019 of an asymmetric pricing regulation designed to increase competition in Mexico's fuel market along...

Just last week, the presidents of Mexico and the United States met in Washington to jointly acknowledge the entry-into-force of...

The recent interview that former Mexican Finance Minister Carlos Urzúa gave to the Spanish newspaper El País allows us to...

Financial advisers often differentiate between low-risk, low-return investments, from higher-risk bets, albeit with higher potential returns. The Mexican President's trip to...

• DISAPPEARANCES: The number of people who remain disappeared in Mexico has risen to a total of 73,201 highlighting the...

Some families I know created bubbles with other families to ride out the pandemic together, agreeing to spend time together...

TREND: San Miguel de Allende, in the central state of Guanajuato, is a preferred destination for those wishing to enjoy a...

• MAJORITY: Sixty-nine percent of Mexicans say that a victory of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the upcoming US...

• FATALITIES: The risk of death for coronavirus among health workers in Mexico is higher than in countries like the...

By Cecilia Farfán Méndez and Amalia Pulido * Unless you, dear reader of Mexico Today, have been hiding under a...

The central Mexican state of Guanajuato is becoming the new Chihuahua -the northern state that reached record levels of violence...

By Christopher Wilson* After more than a year and a half as President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has finally made...

1. Woodrow Wilson Center's Duncan Wood explores three basic truths of the US-Mexico relationship: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/506278-trump-and-mexico-3-basic-truths-of-the-bilateral-relationship-revealed   2. José Miguel Vivanco, the...

One of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s greatest desires is for state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to produce more...

Two years ago, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his political party (Morena) won the Mexican Presidential election of 2018....

A set of disparate purposes aimed at solving a common problem. Perhaps that is the best way to begin to...

• REOPENING: Mexico City's historic downtown is trying for a second time Monday the orderly reopening of its business activity...

As the saying goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a...

Despite some puzzling elements of the June 26 attack on Mexico City’s secretary of public security Omar García Harfuch, two...

• CURFEW: The northern Mexican state of Nuevo León (pop. 5.1 million) will start a statewide curfew on Friday along...

• HISTORIC: Trade between the US and Mexico suffered its sharpest fall since at least 1986 as both countries confronted...

The enactment of the USMCA this week will not prevent an economic recession in Mexico or the US, but should...

• MURDERS: At least 24 people died in the industrial city of Irapuato (pop. 574,000) after gunmen opened fire against...

Mexico City's colonial-era National Palace is a great building that functioned as a museum for a long time. President Andrés...

TREND: Since 2018, Mexico has seen an increase in the number of migrants traveling through the country seeking to reach...

Today marks a new era in North American trade, with the July 1, 2020 “Entry-into-Force” of USMCA, a trade agreement...

• PANDEMIC: Mexico will overtake Spain sometime this week as the sixth country with the most coronavirus deaths as the...

• RECORD: Informal employment in Mexico shot up during the second month of the coronavirus lockdown in what could be...

• RESTRICTION: Mexican travelers will remain banned from entering the European Union (EU) this week when the bloc begins to...

Oil may have been a blessing for Mexico, or the curse that 19th-century poet Ramón López-Velarde put on the country....

• INJUNCTION: Mexico's Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction in favor of the country's antitrust body (COFECE) which is seeking...

After not leaving Mexico for the first 18 months of his presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided this...

• TESTING: Four months since Mexico recorded its first case, president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has never been tested for...

• AUTOMOTIVE: Mexico's auto sector prevented major layoffs in April with employment falling by a mere 2.4% from March despite...

When the Covid-19 pandemic appeared, Germany's Bauer Group -an industrial conglomerate based in Munich- threw away its 2020 business plan...

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) dislikes independent government agencies. According to him, these bodies are corrupt and should...

• FORECAST: The Mexican economy is expected to face in 2020 its worst performance since 1932 with the International Monetary...

• CANCELLATION: Spain-based Iberdrola has decided to cancel a US $1.2 billion combined cycle power plant in the Gulf coast...

• DAMAGES: The southern state of Oaxaca (pop. 3.9 million) is reporting extended damage from a strong 7.5 earthquake that...

The Covid-19 pandemic that plagues the world is like a mirror in which we see the best and worst of...

• WEEKEND: The central state of Guanajuato was left reeling after a violent weekend along the Celaya-Salamanca industrial corridor that...

In presidential democracies where consecutive re-election is allowed, the advantages for the incumbent are more than evident. However, I daresay...

• AUTHORITIES: Mexico's relatively high positivity rate in coronavirus testing is not a worrisome sign given that the country's strategy...

• COMPANIES: The number of companies officially registered with Mexico's Social Security Institute (IMSS) decreased by nearly 10,000 during the...

President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador recently decreed that the military would keep its public security role until 2024.  What’s wrong...

• DROP: The percentage of Mexicans who approve President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's handling of the coronavirus pandemic took a...

By Dr. Michael M. Crow * When I was a kid and something unexpected would go wrong, my father always...

• REOPENING: Mexico City will delay further reopening until the end of June as it remains stuck in a high...

• DECISION: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador corrected himself saying that it was him personally -not his national security...

• RECORD: The López Obrador administration's tactics to exercise increasing pressure on Mexican taxpayers has yielded a record level in...

On June 9, Mexican authorities arrested a prominent no-holds-barred labor lawyer Susan Prieto who recently campaigned in Ciudad Juárez against...

• HOMICIDES: The number of homicides in Mexico remained high during May despite lockdown orders across the country forced by...

• CONTRACTS: Mexico's Social Security Institute (IMSS) granted this year a series of lab tests and blood bank contracts worth...

The significance and size of the US-Mexico remittance corridor has been amply discussed. In 2019, remittances to Mexico reached a...

• DECISIONS: The completion of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan for a 3-airport system serving Mexico City is in...

By John Mitchell/IPC * Before a ventilator, respirator, or vital-sign monitor reaches a Covid-19 patient in a U.S. hospital, it...

The cities of Bangkok and Hanoi are back again paralyzed by traffic. The new normal is like the old one,...

• GENERATORS: Mexico's state-owned electric utility (CFE) has completed the transfer of two heavy fuel oil-fired generators with a total...

• NEW PHASE: Half of states in Mexico have seen significant increases in mobility since the country entered a phased-in...

• MURDER: A Mexican federal judge in charge of criminal proceedings was killed Tuesday morning along with his wife in...

• TIPTOEING: German automakers Volkswagen and Audi have begun tiptoeing towards a reopening of their plants in the central state...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) believes that Mexico needs to go back to its roots and achieve happiness through...

• DEATHS: Close to three quarters of those Mexicans who have died from coronavirus (72%) had at least one chronic...

• BREACH: The López Obrador administration is contravening Mexico's trade commitments by discriminating against US companies in the country's energy...

With one phone call, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador can shift attention away from his administration’s handling of Covid-19,...

TREND: The economic sectors of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur are working together to revive the tourism industry in...

• ABDUCTIONS: At least eight persons vanished last week after being reportedly abducted by unknown individuals in towns along the...

Political scientist Francis Fukuyama has stated that countries that have failed in confronting the Covid-19 pandemic are those where "dysfunctional...

On June 3rd the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) published an extensive investigation on what they called the...

• PLATEAU: Mexico City is ramping up its testing and tracking capacities as the number of new coronavirus cases remains...

• INJUNCTION: A Mexican judge issued an injunction that halts the implementation of a wide-ranging policy by the López Obrador...

• MANUFACTURING: Mexico's manufacturing sector suffered a record fall of 30.5% in April from March as the effects of the...