• BLOW: The number of cruise ships arriving to Mexico's Pacific Coast ports -like Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas- is...

Issues of violence and human rights in the state of Guerrero can bring the most ardent optimist to throw up...

• PEAK: The Mexico City metro area has reached its coronavirus pandemic peak and will not come out of it...

• STRATEGIC: Two members of Mexico's Presidential assistantship office have been promoted to high posts at the country's tax agency...

• DOUBTS: The Mexican government's official coronavirus death toll may not be including hundreds of cases in Mexico City linked...

• HARMFUL: The Mexican government's directive to displace private clean energy companies in the electric sector -in favor of state-owned...

As Mexico’s reels from the coronavirus (COVID-19) economic devastation and public health disaster, which are likely far more intense than...

• HOSPITALS: As Mexico hits pandemic peak, 28 of 69 public hospitals equipped to deal with coronavirus patients in the...

• COLLAPSE: Two of the three largest airport operators in Mexico posted historic air traffic declines in April stemming from...

• EXPORT: Confronted with the drastic fall in textiles demand due to the coronavirus shock, Otomí artisans in the Mexican...

• CLOSED: Around 3,000 firms in the Mexican construction sector went bust during April after not being able to survive...

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• PEAK: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that at least five regional outbreaks remain the main focus of...

• MURDERS: Despite the coronavirus emergency, the total number of homicides across Mexico is still significantly higher than the number...

• LOST: At least 10% of Mexico's estimated 2 million restaurants will not survive the coronavirus pandemic once lockdown orders...

• SUPPLIERS: US auto part suppliers are asking the Trump Administration to press Mexican authorities to reopen manufacturing on May...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reacted very differently to two recent events in Mexico. The first one was the...

• ACCELERATION: The coronavirus outbreak in Mexico has accelerated with the average daily number of confirmed cases jumping from 965...

• ESTIMATES: The forced lockdown of Mexico's commercial and tourism sectors due to the coronavirus pandemic is expected to have...

• FIGHT: Mexico's renewables industry is devising a series of emergency injunctions to stop a Mexican government directive from suspending...

• OUTBREAK: At least 661 Mexican nationals in the US have died from the coronavirus outbreak, with more than 76%...

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• MILD: Mexico's health authorities reported on Sunday that as of April 11, there were approximately 104,562 mild coronavirus cases...

• PROBE: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Mexico's Public Administration Ministry will investigate the government's purchase of ventilators...

• RECORD: Migrant remittances to Mexico reached a monthly record high in March of US $4.16 billion, defying analysts' expectations...

• OUTBREAK: The coronavirus emergency has forced the cancellation of the May-long celebration known as the Fiesta de las Velas...

In the absence of live sport, all we can do is talk about sport.  And so I was thrilled last...

It is often said that understanding politics requires following the money. The austerity measures to counteract the economic crisis caused...

• PEAK: Mexico's health authorities projected today that the country will hit the peak of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, May...

• POWERS: Mexico's Congress will not hold a special session in May to discuss changes to Mexico's budget law that...

• LETTERS: The Mexican government will stop sending loan approval letters signed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after the...

• QUARTER: Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 1.55% in the first quarter of 2020, recording its fifth quarterly fall...

• DEFENSE: The US Department of Defense said Thursday it had seen positive results from the Mexican Government in order...

• STRETCH: A consortium of Mexican and Spanish firms controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim has won the bid to build...

• SATURATED: Mexico's private hospitals are already feeling the strain of the growing cases of coronavirus patients around the country,...

• HISTORIC: Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, announced Thursday a startling loss of US $23.3 billion for the first quarter,...

The new austerity program announced last week by Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), is supposed to "protect 70%...

The corona crisis will become a great excuse for the economic disaster Mexicans are experiencing, but it will not change...

• RESPONSE: Organized crime groups in at least nine Mexican states are steering the coronavirus response in some towns and...

• INSUFFICIENT: More than half of Mexicans, 53%, believe that the economic measures taken by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...

• SEVERE: The US border state of Baja California is entering the most severe weeks of the coronavirus pandemic with...

• TRIM: Mexico's highly indebted state-owned oil company, Pemex, announced that it will cut the equivalent of US $1.6 billion...

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• DEAL: Despite his government's blessings, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lambasted a US $12 billion reverse-factoring deal between...

• MARKET: Health authorities have detected a major coronavirus outbreak at Mexico City's giant wholesale market (known in Spanish as...

• EMPTY: Mexico's immigration detention centers are virtually empty after authorities deported 97% of those migrants detained in March, as...

• CORRUPTION: Mexico's high volumes of foreign trade along with an extensive network of compromised public officials make the eradication...

If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had been the captain of the Titanic, he would have held the...

That Mexican criminal groups have been handing out assistance to local populations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping through...

EMERGENCY: Amid the coronavirus shock, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed changes to Mexico's budget law that would allow the...

• DEATHS: Mexico's military reported a total of 117 confirmed coronavirus cases detected in military health systems along with 5...

• DOWNTURN: Impacted by the global coronavirus shock, the number of passengers traveling with Mexican airlines fell 33.7% in March...

• ACCUSATION: Mexico's top naval officer accused private ship operators for being neglectful concerning the increased number of piracy incidents...

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• PARTNERS: A consortium led by Mota-Engil of Portugal and state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has won the tender...

• STUDY: Mexico is analyzing the request of the US and Mexican private sectors to jump-start manufacturing supply chains disrupted by...

• ACCELERATION: The number of coronavirus cases in Mexico surpassed the 10,000 mark on Wednesday as the country entered the...

• RETURN: Mexico returned to the bond market Wednesday raising USD 6 billion, via a three-part bond to help the...

In an economic context of increasingly scarce resources, the legitimacy of the Mexican tax system is key to maintaining national...

• PEAK: Mexico will see the peak in the coronavirus pandemic sometime between May 8 and May 10, according to...

• AUSTERITY: Today, the López Obrador Administration announced new austerity measures against the coronavirus shock, including the further cut of...

• PREPONDERANCE: Five years after being declared a dominant agent, Grupo Televisa has lost ground as the dominant agent in...

• ALERT: Nearly half of Mexico's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will not have enough liquidity to survive the coronavirus...

It is difficult to imagine a more striking contrast in government response to the coronavirus economic shock than that evidenced...

• TREND: Murders in Mexico rose 8.5% in March breaking a three-month downward trend and reaching a total of 3,000...

• MEASURES: Today, Mexico's central bank (BANXICO) announced an injection of US $31 billion to support liquidity in the financial...

• PHASE: Mexico's health authorities said Tuesday that the country has officially entered its most severe phase of the coronavirus...

• EXPORTS: The closure of restaurants across the US due to the coronavirus outbreak, along with new consumer habits are...

• FINES: The western state of Michoacán (pop. 4.5 million) has joined the neighboring state of Jalisco (pop. 8.1 million)...

• RESTRICTIONS: Mexico and the US have extended travel restrictions on non-essential travel across their common border until at least...

The year 2020 was looking to be a banner one for commercial aviation in Mexico. Passenger traffic in the first...

TREND: Tourism is one of Mexico's primary sources of income. The industry is dealing with the potential loss of hundreds of...

• EXPORTS: Exports of mezcal spirit have dried up amid major order cancellations in recent weeks from top markets -including...

• TOLL: The coronavirus shock will deal a devastating blow to Mexico's tourism industry, with experts estimating its annual impact...

• DRAFT: Mexico's Health Council will hold a vote over a draft triage guide on how to prioritize limited healthcare...

• DECISION: A federal judge ordered the Mexican government to release from detention migrants from most at-risk populations for contracting...

• RESPONSE: The Mexican government has promised to respond within the next 10 days to the airlines' industry request for...

• ANXIETY: Despite assurances from Mexico's president, the Mexican auto supply sector remains anxious over a potential gap once the...

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• GOVERNMENT: The Mexican government is eyeing a return to normalcy on June 1st if mitigation measures against coronavirus are...

• WORKERS: At least 535 Mexican health workers have been infected with coronavirus, amounting to 9% of confirmed cases across...

• TRANSPARENCY: The new Mexican government program to provide one million low-interest microloans for small businesses affected by the coronavirus...

• REPEAT: The Italian-flag supply ship Remas was subject to a new attack by armed pirates off the Gulf coast...

On top of its brutal cost in lives, the main sequel to this terrible pandemic will be the loss of...

The worst case scenario for Mexico at the OPEC+ meetings last week would have been that because of the López...

• ANNOUNCEMENT: More than 37 million Mexican students across grade levels will resume classes via TV and internet on April...

• DAY: Mexican health authorities reported Tuesday 76 new coronavirus deaths marking the highest number of coronavirus deaths in a...

• DEATHS: Thirteen coronavirus deaths in the US border city of Ciudad Juárez are linked to an outbreak at the...

• DECLINE: Mexican car exports to the US could fall up to 40% this year due to a drop in...

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• UNCERTAINTY: The exact date when the US-Mexico land border will reopen to non-essential travel is still uncertain but it...

• MANUFACTURERS: Several automakers including Honda, Toyota, Audi and Volkswagen have formally announced they will extend the temporary shutdown of...

• BONUS: The Mexican government approved to pay of 20% bonus above the regular monthly salary to health workers dealing...

• PROGRAMS: Four of the six loan programs announced by Mexico's national development bank (NAFIN) to help entrepreneurs to deal...

In the context of organized crime - often drug related - people have been disappearing in Mexico for decades. Prodded...

• PROBLEM: The governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla, said he is worried about the number of health workers getting...

• RESPONSE: Mexico's policy response to the coronavirus shock is among the "weakest anywhere in the world", Swiss bank UBS...

• SITES: Authorities in the western state of Jalisco have found at least 21 torture and illegal burial sites linked...

• PROJECT: The Chihuahua state government is planning to build a water purification plant along the Río Grande river to...