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Federal security authorities announced on Monday the arrest in Quintana Roo of two alleged members of a “transnational criminal group” that was identified in media reports as the “Cuban-American Mafia.” One of the men detained by federal and state forces in a residential estate in the Caribbean coast resort city of Cancún was identified as Remigio Valdez Lao, an alleged operational and financial coordinator of the Cuban-American Mafia. En Quintana Roo, elementos de @SEMAR_mx , @FGRMexico , @SSPCMexico , @Defensamx1 , @GN_MEXICO_ y @SSC_QROO detuvieron a dos integrantes de un grupo delictivo transnacional, entre ellos Remigio “N”, alias “Milo”, objetivo prioritario y coordinador operativo y financiero de la… pic.twitter.com/G5H6ts8uQg — Gabinete de Seguridad de México (@GabSeguridadMX) April 6, 2026 Security authorities, including the Security, Defense and Navy ministries, said in a joint statement that Valdez, known as “Milo,” was a “priority target” in Quintana Roo and subj...

The Mexican economy is showing signs of cooling as gross fixed investment and private consumption registered monthly declines in January. Data published by the national statistics agency INEGI on Monday indicated a slowdown in the two main drivers of growth even as public investment rose slightly. After a promising end to 2025, fixed investment started 2026 with renewed caution, according to INEGI’s Monthly Indicator of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (IMFBCF) which showed a month-on-month decrease of 1.1% in the first month of the year, thus cutting a three-month streak of recovery. The IMFBCF figures are in line with those of the Global Indicator of Economic Activity (IGAE) for the month of January (published on March 24), which revealed a monthly decrease of 0.9% in the Mexican economy. It must be noted that the IGAE figures indicate the behavior of economic activity on the supply side, while fixed investment data examine the aggregate demand side. January’s IMFBCF performance...

What's been going on in the news this week? Our weekly quiz is here to keep you on top of what’s happening in Mexico. Get informed, stay smart. Are you ready?  Let’s see where you rank vs. our expert community! Which member of President Claudia Sheinbaum's cabinet resigned this week? Education Minister Mario Delgado Finance Minister Edgar Amador Zamora Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente None The Health Ministry announced that Mexico's measles cases are falling thanks to how many vaccines administered since mid-February? 10.6 million 17.2 million 25.5 million 14 million None What Mexican resort locale did we report was expecting 90% hotel occupancy this week, thanks to an influx of spring breakers? Mazatlán Tulum Puerto Vallarta Los Cabos None AtlasIntel's March survey has found Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential approval rating to be at its lowe...

Three years and nine months after its builders went to work, the under-construction Monterrey skyscraper known as Torre Rise has reached the height (305 meters) of its established neighbor, the T.OP Tower 1, until now the tallest building in Mexico. To the naked ground-level eye, the two towers appear equal in height for now, rising parallel to each other over the western part of the Nuevo León capital. As of March, the under-construction Torre Rise had reached the height of the existing tallest building in Mexico, the T.OP Tower 1. (Proyectos México) Torre Rise , being built alongside its rival as though in planned competition, will become the tallest skyscraper in Mexico and Latin America, its projected 101 stories and 484 meters leaving T.OP Tower 1 far below, and making it the second-highest building in the Americas (behind One World Trade Center in New York City) and the 13th-highest in the world. Currently, the two towers (both developed by the same consortium) dominate the...

It should come as no surprise that the foundational real estate motto “Location, location, location” is just as valid in Mexico as anywhere else. And the locations of the highest housing prices are Mexico City, Baja California Sur and Querétaro.  So says a survey of records compiled by the Federal Mortgage Society (SHF), a state-run development bank created in 2001 to boost the housing market. It also confirmed that popular tourist hubs like Cancún, Los Cabos and Playa del Carmen tend to be more expensive due to high demand. In a survey, the newspaper El Economista found that the average appraised value of a home in Mexico was 1.86 million pesos (US $104,323), whereas the average price of a house in the capital was more than double that at nearly 4 million pesos (US $222,088). In Baja California Sur, the average hovered just above 2.5 million pesos (US $144,911) and in Querétaro it exceeded 2.3 million pesos (US $130,077). The states of Yucatán and Nayarit — both featurin...

A viral video of men digging up sea turtle nests in Oaxaca has prompted a federal investigation and fresh outrage over wildlife crime at one of Mexico’s main sea turtle nesting sanctuaries. The footage, shared widely on social media, shows several young men with white sacks extracting eggs directly from nests in the sand and handling turtles during nesting — with one person seen grabbing and throwing a turtle. 🚨 La Profepa investiga el saqueo de nidos de tortuga en Playa Escobilla, Oaxaca, tras difundirse un video donde varias personas extraen huevos de uno de los santuarios más importantes de México. 🐢🌊 pic.twitter.com/RUy6xEKA83 — Guillermo Ortega Ruiz (@GOrtegaRuiz) April 2, 2026 The incident occurred on Escobilla Beach, a protected sanctuary considered the world’s leading nesting beach for olive ridley sea turtles. It lies in the municipality of Santa María Tonameca, on Oaxaca’s Pacific coast, near the beach towns of Mazunte, Puerto Ángel and the countercultural ...