President Andrés Manuel López Obrador begins the last year of his six-year mandate with favorable poll ratings but with several projects still pending.

Inflation in Mexico dropped for the ninth consecutive two-weekly period between September 1 and 14, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). 

Unlike in 2020 when the pandemic was the key issue on many people’s minds, immigration is likely to feature prominently in the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign, representing a potential weak spot for President Joe Biden, who in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last week trailed former president Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, by an astonishing nine points.

Mexico has not forgotten the enforced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher Training School in Guerrero state—one of the darkest incidents in the country’s recent history.

Soaring numbers of migrants heading to the U.S. border through Mexico in recent weeks, most of them from Central and South America, prompted rail company Ferromex to temporarily suspend service of around 60 freight train routes.

Mexico’s federal government has been criticized for inviting representatives of the Russian military to participate in the September Independence Day parade in Mexico City.