Four Years Remain Until Mexico Chooses Its Next President, but the Race for the National Palace Has Already Begun At least in the collective imagination, the race is underway. Polling firm CE Research published its national Presidential Prospects 2030 survey this month, conducted between June 14 and 16 with 1,000 telephone interviews and a margin […]

In Mexico, around 10 million people live with a rare disease, according to the Mexican Network for Rare Diseases (ReMexER), but the path to obtaining an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment can take years. There are more than 7,000 rare diseases worldwide, and as technology advances and genetic knowledge improves, many more are expected to […]

Mexico is among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that have seen a reduction in hydrocarbon tax revenues due to tax exemptions granted to Pemex, according to a report prepared by the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT). The document, which also involved the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean […]

Mexico is discovering that aging comes at a cost: to families, to healthcare systems, to businesses, and to public finances. What’s surprising is that, despite the rapid pace of change in the population pyramid, we continue to talk about aging as if it were a problem of the future, not a reality that is already […]

As I finish this column, all indications are that Colombia will have elected the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella as president. A wealthy private lawyer who promises to be a mix of Trump’s kleptocracy, Milei’s economic ineptitude, Bolsonaro’s racist nationalism, and Bukele’s mass incarceration. The question is why. The outgoing left-wing government, led by President […]

Mexico is turning to global bond markets to finance the repurchase of its existing debt, amid growing pressure from credit rating agencies to control the public deficit. The country is issuing new bonds maturing in 2037 and renegotiating bonds maturing in 2056, according to a preliminary prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). […]

In the humid forests of central and western Mexico, when the rains cover the ground with wet leaves and the air takes on the scent of fresh wood, one of the strangest and most beautiful organisms in Mexican gastronomy emerges: the blue mushroom. Its appearance seems to come from a dream or a natural dye […]

Mexico celebrates with music and dance that blends traditions. Among the wide array of regional folk dances performed only in its states, the Dance of the Old Men (La Danza de los Viejitos) is one of the most unique in the state of Michoacán. The dancers dress colorfully as elderly men, wearing bright hats adorned […]