President Claudia Sheinbaum this week defended Mexico’s new mandatory cell phone registration policy, “Registro Móvil,” which came into effect on January 9.

This week, President Donald Trump once again disparaged the trilateral USMCA trade pact he renegotiated in 2020, calling it “irrelevant” and stating he doesn’t think about it at all.

Mexico’s Riviera Maya and Ireland are now linked by air for the first time with the inaugural Aer Lingus flight landing at Cancún International Airport on January 6. 

Trying to compare the flu season in the U.S. and Mexico right now is like comparing a hurricane to a single raindrop. As a nasty new “super flu” strain slams the north, the official numbers from Mexico tell a wildly different story.

The meticulously planned U.S. military operation to extract Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from his fortified hideout elicited mixed reactions around the world, leaving an aftermath full of profound doubt about what future actions in the region President Donald Trump may now have in mind.

To fund a historic expansion of social welfare programs in 2026, the Mexican Congress last year approved a new tax strategy focused on enforcement and selective tax hikes.   The plan avoids broad reform and increased personal taxes, instead targeting fraud, digital platforms and specific “harmful” goods to generate the revenue needed to cover the rising costs of pensions, youth scholarships and other benefits (see story above).