In less than a month, Cuba has been left without oil shipments from Venezuela following the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, and without crude oil shipments from Mexico following a decision announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum, jeopardizing its electricity generation. Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that Pemex stopped sending oil to Cuba on Tuesday, January 27, following “a […]
The national craft creation contest “Mexico in a Piece” is launched
The Government of Mexico—through the Ministry of Culture, the National Fund for the Promotion of Handicrafts (Fonart), and the National Institute of Copyright (INDAUTOR), in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism—and BBVA Mexico, via BBVA Mexico Cultural Development, with the support of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), is launching the National Handicraft Creation […]
Mexico is gaining prestige as a trading destination due to its low tariffs
Mexico is gaining prestige as a trading destination because the tariffs imposed on it by the United States are lower than those imposed on China, argued Carlos Capistrán, chief economist for Mexico, Latin America, and Canada at Bank of America. “Is Mexico losing its prestige as a trading destination for supplying the United States? No, […]
The lost border: Mexico and the US, two different languages
On February 20, 2025, the United States designated Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). With this act, Washington changed the rules of the game. The crucial question is not whether Mexico agrees, but whether it understands the magnitude of the conceptual disconnect this decision reveals. When the United States classifies an organization as terrorist, […]
Trump’s military strategy and Mexico
In Mexico, it was practically ignored, but the National Defense Strategy (NDS) released by the U.S. Department of Defense on January 23 is a key document for understanding the new global geopolitical configuration. It is linked to the national security strategy published by the State Department at the end of November, and it assigns Mexico […]
The Attorney General’s Office blames the train driver for the derailment of the interoceanic train and exonerates AMLO’s project.
Attorney General Ernestina Godoy presented her verdict today: it was the operator’s fault. “The train was functioning properly,” she declared. There were no failures in the tracks, rails, sleepers, or infrastructure. Everything was perfect. Only the engineer who “accelerated considerably” to 111 km/h.Convenient. Sheinbaum’s government completely exonerates the megaproject inherited from López Obrador and places […]
THE CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN: SALINAS PLIEGO INCITES A “TAX REBELLION” WHILE THE SAT PREPARES FOR THE SEIZURE
Claudia Sheinbaum has the US guns pointed at her, but the real danger might be in her own backyard. Yesterday, Saturday, January 24, was the deadline for Ricardo Salinas Pliego to pay the 51 billion pesos. The result? HE DIDN’T PAY A SINGLE CENT. Instead of a check, the businessman launched a half bombshell designed […]
Tlaxcala City Council promotes family recreation spaces in the Historic Center
To strengthen community life and promote culture, the Tlaxcala City Council, headed by Mayor Alfonso Sánchez García, held two recreational and artistic activities this past weekend in the city’s Historic Center, through the Tourism Coordination Office. In the Plaza de la Constitución, local families and visitors enjoyed a performance on Saturday by the Yandari Folkloric […]
Extortion skyrockets in 2025; Coparmex warns of increases of up to 1,300% in Tlaxcala
The Mexican Employers’ Confederation (Coparmex) called for extortion to be made a national priority, warning that despite the decrease in other crimes, this phenomenon is rapidly expanding due to “the lack of decisive action.” In a statement, the organization noted that in 2025, the year-on-year change in extortion increased in 20 of the 32 states […]
A US military plane flew over Yucatán and Campeche
Following the landing of an aircraft at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) on Thursday afternoon, January 22, it was reported that another military plane had been flying over Mexico, allegedly for surveillance purposes. Social media users reported that a U.S. military aircraft was flying over Mexican territory, specifically in the south of the country. This […]