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Mexico’s export revenue shot up 27.7% in March

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Mexico’s export revenue surged 27.7% annually in March, driven by a 43.7% increase in the value of non-automotive manufacturing sector exports, according to official data. The national statistics agency INEGI reported on Monday that Mexico’s exports were worth US $70.727 billion in March, easily the largest monthly total in 2026. Mexico’s export earnings have now increased in annual terms in each of the last 10 months. Six double-digit increases in revenue were reported in the period. INEGI also reported that Mexico’s export revenue totaled a record-high $175.586 billion in the first three months of the year, a 17.9% increase compared to the same period of 2025. It was the largest annual increase in export revenue for any first quarter since 2011. Mexico’s export revenue hit a record high in 2025 — despite the United States’ imposition of tariffs on various Mexican goods — and has continued to grow in early 2026. More than 90% of export revenue came from the shipment abroad of...
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INEGI: Fewer Mexicans feel unsafe in their cities — but El Mencho’s death sparked sharp spikes in Jalisco

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Perceptions of insecurity in Mexico have fallen to their lowest level since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, but around six in ten Mexicans still consider their city an unsafe place to live, according to the results of the latest National Survey of Urban Public Security (ENSU). Conducted by the national statistics agency INEGI between Feb. 23 and March 13 with adult residents of 27,300 households in 91 urban areas across Mexico, the first quarter ENSU found that 61.5% of respondents consider their city an unsafe place to live. That figure declined 2.3 percentage points compared to the fourth quarter of 2025 and 0.4 points compared to a year earlier. It is the lowest ENSU result since Sheinbaum took office in October 2024. The incidence of various crimes, including homicides , have declined over the past 18 months. The first quarter ENSU found that 67.2% of women and 54.6% of men consider their city an unsafe place to live. The figure for women declined 2.2 points compared ...
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Last of 4 trapped miners found dead, ending 33-day rescue operation at Sinaloa mine

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The body of the fourth and final miner trapped in a mine in the northern state of Sinaloa was located early Monday morning. The victim, mine supervisor Leandro Isidro Beltrán, 54, was approximately 350 meters below the surface inside the Santa Fe mine when a tailings dam collapsed on March 25, flooding the mine with water and debris.  Twenty-four other miners were working inside the mine at the time, but four — Beltrán among them — were too deep inside to escape. A massive rescue effort, eventually involving state and federal authorities and emergency personnel — more than 300 people in all — began the following day.  José Alejandro Cástulo was rescued days later and Francisco Zapata was brought out alive on April 8. A third miner, identified as Abraham Aguilera Aguilera, was found dead. The discovery of Beltrán’s body comes 33 days — or 783 hours — after the accident at the mine operated by Industrial Minera Sinaloa.  A statement from the rescue team’s Unified...
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MND Local: Guadalajara faces more water woes, a mayoral recall petition and crackdowns on out-of-state plates

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Major news this week in La Perla Tapatia includes continuing water challenges on the city’s east and south sides, a citizen petition to recall Guadalajara’s mayor, and a flurry of new rules for local drivers. Water scarcity fraying daily life in eastern Guadalajara  SIAPA, Guadalajara’s municipal water authority, is struggling with several challenges that are affecting residents water supplies. (gob.mx) Following the Semana Santa break, at least six schools located in eastern Guadalajara were forced to make attendance at in-person classes optional due to a lack of water in the school buildings and surrounding homes. Residents of Oblatos, Santa Rosa, Santa Cecilia, San Onofre, Guadalajara Oriente, and San Vicente complained to local news outlets Canal 44 and Radio UdG that they had been living without water in their homes for days.  At the José Clemente Orozco elementary school, a lack of water prevented students and staff from attending to basic hygiene, ...
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Mexico’s week in review: A shooting at Teotihuacán, an illegal CIA op in Chihuahua and a UN visit

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The week of April 20 in Mexico was consequential on both the domestic and foreign fronts. A car crash in a Chihuahua ravine turned into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when the victims turned out to be CIA officers operating without federal authorization. Then came a shooting at one of the world’s most visited archaeological sites. Woven in between were major trade talks, investment announcements, a UN visit and a new ambassador nomination — all of it against the backdrop of a government determined to project both sovereignty and stability. Didn’t have time to catch this week’s top stories? Here’s what you missed. CIA drama rocks Chihuahua — and Mexico-US relations The week’s defining story began with tragedy: a vehicle carrying U.S. Embassy staff and two senior Chihuahua officials plunged into a ravine early Sunday, killing all four. It quickly exploded into a diplomatic firestorm when both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the two American officials were CIA...
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Fugitive Mexican Navy officer wanted for fuel smuggling arrested in Argentina

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Rear Admiral Fernando Farías Laguna, a Mexican Navy officer and alleged fuel trafficker, was arrested in Buenos Aires on Thursday and faces extradition.  Wanted by Mexican authorities for his role in a scheme to sell stolen fuel, Farias is the nephew of former Navy Minister Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán. He was holding a forged Guatemalan passport when apprehended. Argentine authorities arrested Farías, who is wanted in Mexico on fuel trafficking charges, in Buenos Aires on Thursday. (Fiscalía Argentina) Farías stands accused by Mexican authorities of leading a hydrocarbon trafficking network uncovered in March 2025 when 17 million liters of stolen fuel was seized in a northeastern Mexican port. A fugitive since skipping out on pre-trial hearings last November, Farías was also the subject of an Interpol red notice for organized crime charges, through which he was wanted in 192 countries. Security Minister Omar García Harfuch attributed the capture to “international inf...
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Government blames protesting bean farmers for fire that destroyed welfare food supply in Zacatecas

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Federal authorities are blaming protesting bean farmers for a government warehouse fire that destroyed 6 million pesos (US $344,000) worth of food on Tuesday in the state of Zacatecas. A government welfare warehouse was completely destroyed and an adjacent milk storage warehouse is being inspected for damage. 🧯 🧯 🚒 Un gran incendio se registro en las #bodegas de Alimentación para el #Bienestar ( #Segalmex ) en #Zacatecas . Se activó durante una protesta de productores de frijol, quienes habían prendido fuego a llantas y gasolina; y el viento lo atizó. Los daños superan los 6 millones… pic.twitter.com/RHzEYxGfaR — Contrapropuesta Mx (@ContraProMx) April 22, 2026 Dozens of farmers from across the north-central state had gathered in the state capital to demand that Zacatecas authorities comply with the increased bean quota authorized by the federal government after a March 28 visit by President Claudia Sheinbaum . The farmers, who have long accused state authorities of corru...
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