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Baja California officials are scrambling to coordinate logistics and security ahead of the arrival of the Iranian soccer team after FIFA this week authorized the Persian nation’s federation to move its World Cup headquarters from Arizona to Tijuana. The move comes amid the war in the Middle East and security concerns exacerbated by comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he suggested he couldn’t guarantee the players’ safety .  Iran will now set up camp at Centro Xoloitzcuintle, the home of Liga MX side Club Tijuana, and is expected to arrive by next weekend. Albolfazl Pasandideh, Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, publicly thanked President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday for accepting the installation of the Iranian camp and praised the hospitality of the border city, located just a few kilometers from San Diego. “True friends are known in difficult situations,” he said, quoting a Persian proverb. Sheinbaum said a FIFA representative had asked if Mexico were willing to a...

THE MND SHEINBAUM INDEX™ Measuring Mexico’s president beyond the polls MND Intelligence · Second edition Welcome to the second edition of the MND Sheinbaum Index™ , an eight-pillar index designed to give our readers balanced, data-driven insight into the current situation in Mexico across a range of areas. As we wrote in our inaugural Sheinbaum Index article last month , most of what you hear anecdotally about Claudia Sheinbaum fits into one of two buckets: breathless admiration or reflexive dismissal, often without a lot of evidence or data to support the opinion expressed. Neither tells you much about how Mexico is actually doing on her watch.  The MND Sheinbaum Index™  was built to fill that gap. In this second edition of the index, the headline number is 60.0 , representing a 0.1-point deterioration compared to March. That is not to say that nothing changed. As you will see below, four of the pillar scores improved in April, while four deteriorated. These changes effectiv...

Annual job creation at the end of the first quarter of this year was the third-lowest in 15 years, driven by gains in the informal sector. Mexico’s active workforce increased by 551,651 people in the first quarter of the year compared to last year, the national statistics agency INEGI reported on Tuesday .That was the lowest positive job creation figure for the same period since the end of Q1 2011, when Mexico added just 534,469 positions over 12 months. The worst job creation result in the last fifteen years was the annual loss of over 2 million jobs at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The Mexican economy shed a large number of jobs in 2020, when the COVID pandemic and associated restrictions caused a sharp contraction . The second-worst job creation result in the past 15 years was the loss of almost 120,000 jobs between Q1 of 2024 and Q1 of 2025. Perhaps even more concerning than the most recent year-over-year job creation figure is that the size of Mexico’s formal...

Bees in the northern state of Durango now have something most insects never get: a place to check in, rest and ride out the weather. In the city of Gómez Palacio, researchers from the Juárez University of the State of Durango (UJED) and city officials have so far installed about 10 wooden “insect hotels” in parks and schools to shelter bees and other pollinators from heat, cold and rain while they nest and hibernate. Bees aren’t the only pollinators at work in the environment, but Mexico’s 1,400 bee species are vital to most of the flowering plants in the country. (Oktay Yildis / Unsplash) With plans to set up even more, the program is responding to what scientists describe as an alarming disappearance of pollinators in northern Mexico, threatening crops and the wider ecosystem. The structures are built from recycled wood, pallets, reeds and sticks to create crevices where insects can take refuge and reproduce. They can be as small as shoebox-sized to as large as a stac...

The dissident CNTE teachers union broke off talks with the federal government on Wednesday after protesters were violently removed from a blockade they had established in the town of Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca. CNTE members were in meetings with the Interior Ministry in the capital attempting to resolve long-standing labor issues when news of the attack prompted the teachers to abandon the negotiating table. Mitla Mayor Esaú López, seen here at a press conference after the events of Wednesday, said he would gladly accept reponsibility for his actions if they help put an end to the constant disruptive protests by the CNTE in his town and others. (Carolina Jiménez Mariscal / Cuartoscuro.com) The CNTE — led by Oaxaca-based Section 22 of the union — began new protests this week demanding a better wage package than was offered earlier this month and the abrogation of the 2019 Education Reform Law, among other things. Hundreds of teachers set up a protest camp at the edge of Mexico City’s C...

A total of US $61.79 billion flowed into Mexico in remittances in 2025 , a 4.6% decrease compared to 2024, but nevertheless an exceptionally large amount of money. It is common knowledge that the vast majority of the remittances to Mexico are sent from the United States, but where in the country does all the money go? How important are remittances to the economies of Mexico’s 32 federal entities? We answer both those questions in this week’s “Mexico in Numbers” article. Which states received the most in remittances in 2025? According to data published by the Bank of Mexico , Mexico’s largest recipient of remittances in 2025 was the state of Guanajuato. A total of $5.51 billion flowed into Guanajuato last year, accounting for 8.9% of the total remittances amount sent to Mexico in 2025. The next four biggest recipients of remittances in 2025 were: Michoacán, which received $5.39 billion (8.7% of the total). Jalisco, which received $5.14 billion (8....