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The U.S. fast food chain Chipotle wlll open its first restaurant in Mexico this week, the company announced on Monday. The first store will open on Thursday in the upmarket Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza García in the border state of Nuevo León. It forms part of a wider rollout across Mexico, with Chipotle’s first store in Mexico City planned for 2027, according to the company.  Predictably, the very idea of a U.S. restaurant chain offering Mexican food in Mexico, especially a fast-food version, provoked much mockery on social media. But the Chipotle leadership is convinced there’s a market for it and is planning more restaurants in the north as well as in Mexico City. (Chipotle) Chipotle recently partnered with the restaurant group Alsea, which operates brands like Starbucks in Latin America. “We are entering Mexico with deep respect for the country’s culinary heritage and a commitment to delivering the Chipotle experience with excellence,” Chipotle’s CEO Scott Boatwrigh...

In a telephone conversation with one man identified as an “external” FBI adviser and another man identified as an FBI “special agent,” Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda — who was stripped of her U.S. tourist visa last year — said she is willing to cooperate with U.S. authorities, apparently in order to avoid possible criminal charges in the United States and extradition to that country. An audio recording in which Ávila speaks of her willingness to collaborate with U.S. authorities was published by the newspaper El Universal on Monday in a column by journalist Héctor de Mauleón . The column is headlined “In new audio, Marina del Pilar offers to collaborate with the FBI.” 🔴 A pesar de que la gobernadora de Baja California aseguró nunca haber buscado acuerdos privados con autoridades de Estados Unidos, una nueva revelación de @hdemauleon demuestra lo contrario. En la grabación filtrada, se escucha a la mandataria expresar su t...

Mexico’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a landmark case that could recognize bees as subjects of rights, a move Indigenous communities say is critical to protecting both biodiversity and their own cultural survival. In an amparo case — a Mexican constitutional injunction used to defend fundamental rights — a group of Maya communities in the southeastern state of Campeche is asking the high court to grant legal standing to melipona bees native to the area. The Campeche municipality of Hopelchén, located toward the bottom of the map, 93 kilometers due west of the city of Campeche and 174 kilometers south of Mérida, is the state’s most productive beekeeping and agricultural region and home to the communities involved in the rights case. (Google Maps) The case also asks that Indigenous beekeepers be recognized as the guardians of these stingless honeybees, which are facing mass die-offs linked to deforestation for soy production, heavy pesticide use and climate change. These hards...

National health regulator Cofepris found concentrations of bacteria higher than permitted in several coastal destinations in Mexico, including two of the country’s most popular beaches. As part of its annual pre-summer vacation beach monitoring , Cofepris (Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks) reviewed beaches in all 17 coastal states and examined thousands of samples taken at 289 beaches between mid-June and early July.  La #Cofepris alertó que Playa del Cuale, en #PuertoVallarta , rebasó los límites permitidos de bacterias, por lo que fue clasificada como no apta para uso recreativo en este periodo vacacional. Noticiero en #ImagenTVGDL con @erickbreguer #NoticiasImagen pic.twitter.com/wO7DLRsYmt — Imagen TV Guadalajara (@ImagenTVGDL) July 13, 2026 Most destinations met federal health standards (98.3% to be exact), but five sites exceeded the established microbiological limit for recreational activities. Among the five deemed not suitable for swimming w...

What looked like an unprecedented sargassum invasion on a popular beach in the western state of Nayarit has instead been identified as a harmless Pacific macroalgae — not the same seaweed that has become the scourge of Quintana Roo’s Caribbean shores. For the past couple of weeks, beachgoers and residents in Rincón de Guayabitos have observed clumps of brown muck covering the shoreline.  An especially large accumulation Sunday morning led to Facebook and other social media posts, including by the municipal government of Compostela which the Guayabitos beach is part of, describing a “ sargazo” invasion. “This has never happened before,” residents and boatmen told the newspaper La Jornada as they joined cleanup efforts. But researchers from the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) said the material is not sargassum — which typically affects Mexico’s Caribbean coast — but Hypnea, a naturally occurring macroalgae. In an interview on Radio UAN, marine researchers Ubisha Hernánde...

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson touted on Friday the U.S. government’s actions against the illegal trafficking of firearms — weapons that often end up in the hands of members of Mexican cartels. “The Trump Administration is delivering results to dismantle the cartels and stop illegal firearms trafficking: nearly 50,000 firearms seized, almost 2.9 million rounds of ammunition seized and more than 10,000 arrests linked to firearms trafficking,” Johnson wrote on social media . The Trump Administration is delivering results to dismantle the cartels and stop illegal firearms trafficking: nearly 50,000 firearms seized, almost 2.9 million rounds of ammunition seized, and more than 10,000 arrests linked to firearms trafficking. Under the leadership of… pic.twitter.com/gkepZ6SOvg — Embajador Ronald Johnson (@USAmbMex) July 10, 2026 “ Under the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and President @ClaudiaShein, our countries continue working together to make both...