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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum insists Mexico will never allow itself to be treated as an unequal partner in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

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.

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%).

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 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 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.

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.

Although November 20 is the original date of Dia de Revolución, Monday, November 18 is the official national holiday this year.