Mexico’s national drink may be tequila, but beer is making an increasingly compelling case for the crown. 

Mexico’s president is finding herself in an increasingly precarious position as U.S. pressure intensifies against key figures in her party. Meanwhile, fresh allegations suggest that her predecessor and mentor feared what a captured drug lord might reveal about his former collaborators’ ties to the drug cartels.

Cellphone users in Mexico have until June 30 to register their lines or face immediate service suspension.

Mexico, the United States and Canada will hold their first formal trilateral meeting on July 1 to begin the mandatory joint review of the USMCA trade agreement.

In this monthly series, we republisha few of the headlines from our Juneeditions of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.

1966

New golf course set for Lakeside

The administration of the Chapala Country Club has pledges for most of the 700,000 pesos budgeted to acquire land for a new golf course five miles east of Chapala, in San Nicolas. An additional 200,000 pesos has been designated for construction of the new clubhouse. Work has already started on the first nine holes.

Mexico has rolled out Autonomous Migration Filters (FMA) — self-service e-gates — at its major international airports to streamline entry for tourists. The program began in 2023 as a pilot at several airports, including  Cancun and Mexico City, where wait times dropped significantly, authorities say.   At some peak times, waits of over an hour have been reduced to as little as seven minutes, they report.