According to the National Public Security System, half of all intentional homicides in Mexico over the past six years have been concentrated in just seven of the country’s 32 states: Guanajuato (10.3% of the national total), Baja California (8%), the State of Mexico (7.6%), Chihuahua (6.7%), Jalisco (6%), Guerrero (5.9%), and Nuevo León (5.4%).

The Mexico-U.S. relationship finds itself in a state of flux, with Donald Trump’s return to the White House looming on the horizon.

The 2025 federal budget projects economic growth of two-to-three percent next year (although studies by non-governmental analysts have put the expectation at one percent) and a deficit reduction of 3.9 percent of GDP, driven by decreased spending in key ministries such as defense (the worst affected with a 50-percent cut in funding), energy, security, tourism, culture, the environment and others.

It’s not only Donald Trump that Mexico needs to be wary of in the coming months and years; loud conservative Canadian voices are also making themselves heard.

In a departure from her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who mostly avoided international travel (he took seven trips abroad during his six-year term, two of them to the United States), Mexico’s newly elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum, underscored her commitment to engaging on the global stage, this week delivering a prominent speech at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The updated Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is now available at various local pharmacies, including Farmacias Guadalajara, Farmacias del Ahorro, Farmacias Benavides, and Farmacias San Pablo, as well as in Walmart pharmacies.