Just days before President Claudia Sheinbaum delivered her second State of the Nation address (see page 1), a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the state of Zacatecas. 

The Mexico edition of the Hay Festival, the celebrated literary and arts gathering born in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye in 1988, will return to the city of Queretaro from September 4 to 6  —  marking its tenth year as a highlight of Mexico’s cultural agenda. 

In a whirlwind political drama, Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya announced his return to office on Friday, August 21, after 112 days on leave — only to reverse course the following day amid a firestorm of criticism.

The Trump administration has been quietly deporting Mexican citizens to Guatemala and Honduras instead of returning them to their homeland, a practice Mexican government officials and human rights advocates have condemned as unprecedented and punitive, according to a CBS News report.

Twenty alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were detained during operations carried out from August 21 to 23 in the states of Jalisco, Hidalgo and Michoacán, Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch announced this week.

Back-to-school expenses in Mexico will rise 13.8 percent in 2026, averaging 12,422 pesos per student, up from 10,916 pesos last year, according to the National Alliance of Small Traders.