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On the campaign trail, Claudia Sheinbaum promised that the return of passenger trains would be a fundamental objective of her administration. Now the Mexican president is putting her words into action. On Thursday, Sheinbaum announced that the government has set aside 157 billion pesos (US $7.8 billion) in its 2025 budget to begin installing 3,000 kilometers of track connecting Mexico City with northern regions. President Claudia Sheinbaum has promised to continue AMLO’s push to expand Mexico’s passenger rail system. (Claudia Sheinbaum/X) The ambitious project is set to begin in April 2025 with three passenger train routes, two of which would connect Mexico City to northern border cities: México City-Nuevo Laredo and México City-Nogales. The third route would connect Pachuca — about 90 kilometers north of the capital — with the new Mexico City airport. The construction would be done in non-contiguous fashion, the newspaper El Economista reported, so as to benefit the largest num...

As Mexico faces pressure from Donald Trump and others over its trade relationship with China and Chinese investment in various sectors of the Mexican economy, federal and Mexico City authorities raided a Chinese goods megastore on Thursday, seizing more than 200,000 counterfeit products. The Economy Ministry (SE) and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) led the operation targeting Mexico Mart, a 16-story Chinese-operated macroplaza (large wholesale shopping complex) in the historic center of Mexico City. IMPI inspectors, navy personnel, Mexico City police officers and foreign trade officials participated in the operation, according to a joint statement issued by the SE and IMPI . “Within the framework of the strategy to combat goods that are brought into the country and distributed illegally, the Economy Ministry and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property today carried out an operation in a commercial plaza located at Izazaga Street 89 in the center of Mexico C...

The United States has temporarily paused imports of Mexican cattle after a case of New World screwworm was identified at the lakeside town of Catazajá in the southern state of Chiapas, the Mexican government said on Sunday. “The United States and Mexico are working on implementing measures to resume the normal flow of Mexican exports,” it said in a statement, adding that the temporary suspension was only of Mexico’s cattle and did not apply to other exports. Cochliomyia hominivorax, or the New World screwworm fly. Its larvae infect mammals by burrowing into open wounds. (University of Florida) Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (SADER) head Julio Berdegué first announced the cooperative efforts to address the situation on Nov. 17 after a meeting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Mexico’s chief veterinary officer had notified the USDA of the detection of a screwworm in a cow at a checkpoint near the southern border with Guatemala. The animal origin...

Activists from Greenpeace Mexico and other organizations demonstrated Sunday at a sprawling, open-air garbage dump in the state of Veracruz, denouncing the country’s growing plastic waste crisis and calling for urgent action. The protesters — some dressed in hazardous material suits and holding a huge banner reading “Anti-Plastic Law Now!” — temporarily blocked operations at the Villa Allende landfill in Coatzacoalcos, a major port city in southern Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. Coatzacoalcos, population 212,000, is an important maritime port on the Gulf of Mexico. (Gobierno Municipal Coatzacoalcos) According to activists with the Allende 213 environmental group, the 33-year-old dump began as a facility for waste only from the locality of Villa Allende. Now, even though the State Attorney General for Environmental Protection (PMA) has determined the dump should have already been closed, it continues to operate, receiving an estimated 350 to 400 tons of domestic and industrial w...

The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) announced it is filing a criminal complaint after 36 exotic animals — including eight lion cubs,  six Bengal tigers and an American bison — were found at a private residence in the state of México. According to a press release issued Monday, inspectors from Profepa and the Edomex Attorney General’s Office (FGJEM) went to the site over the weekend to find out if the animals were being kept legally and to review their condition. A kinkajou — a tropical rainforest mammal related to raccoons and native to Central and South America — that was found on the property. (Profepa) The property is located in San Pedro Cholula in the municipality of Ocoyoacac, about 20 kilometers from central Toluca. It is reportedly adjacent to a pallet business. As of Monday, the animals were at the site under FGJEM custody. The criminal complaint — based on article 420, section 4 of the Federal Penal Code (CPF) — is for the possession and s...

President Claudia Sheinbaum and Mexico’s 32 governors signed a National Human Right to Water Agreement on Monday, a pact that aims to ensure equal access to water for Mexico’s public while also increasing agricultural and industrial efficiency and sustainability. The private sector joined as a voluntary participant, committing to cede contractual rights to at least 126 million cubic meters of water and promising to invest 21 billion pesos (more than US $1 billion) in infrastructure and technology improvements. President Claudia Sheinbaum with National Water Commission director Efraín Morales, creators of Mexico’s recently unveiled National Water Plan, of which this pact with Mexico’s governors was born. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro) Federal water districts and irrigation sectors have also agreed to cede control over 2.8 billion cubic meters of water. During the signing ceremony, Efraín Morales, director of Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua), said the accord seeks to “m...

The Mexican peso depreciated sharply against the US dollar on Monday and continued to weaken on Tuesday after Donald Trump pledged to impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican and Canadian exports to the United States on the first day of his second term as U.S. president. The Bank of Mexico’s official USD:MXN exchange rate at the close of markets on Monday was 20.28. Donald Trump on Monday pledged to impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican and Canadian exports to the United States on the first day of his second term as U.S. president. (Facebook) However, the peso depreciated to 20.71 to the greenback shortly after Trump outlined his tariff plan on his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening. The slide to 20.71 represented a 2.1% depreciation for the peso compared to the Bank of Mexico’s end-of-day rate. The peso recovered somewhat in early trading on Tuesday, but at 11:45 a.m. Mexico City time, it was trading at 20.81 to the dollar. Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis a...

As part of an annual tradition, 39 kilometers of poinsettias were planted across Mexico City on Nov. 22, marking the start of the festive season. Mexico City’s Public Works and Services Ministry enlisted the help of 400 workers to plant 147,000 nochebuenas — the common name in Mexico — along 12 primary roads, covering a total of 38.66 km. ¡La Ciudad de México se viste de rojo! Iniciamos la plantación de nochebuenas en Av. Paseo de la Reforma, con motivo de las fiestas decembrinas #ObrasSonAmores #CapitalDeLaTransformacion pic.twitter.com/nJKD5pNZQA — Secretaría de Obras y Servicios CDMX (@SOBSECDMX) November 23, 2024 Around the globe, poinsettias ( Euphorbia pulcherrima ) have become synonymous with the Christmas season. The bright red flowering plant is native to Mexico and 30 varieties are grown in six states , including Morelos, Michoacán, Mexico City and Puebla. Before the arrival of the Spanish in 1519, the ornamental plant was grown in the gardens of the Mexica roya...

More than 18,000 people expressed interest in standing as candidates in Mexico’s first ever judicial elections in 2025, the federal government announced Monday. Arturo Zaldívar, coordinator of policy and government in the administration led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, thanked 18,447 people for registering their interest in participating in the judicial elections scheduled to be held on June 1, 2025. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar, coordinator of policy and government in President Claudia Sheinbaum’s cabinet, thanked the many judicial hopefuls for their applications. (Claudia Sheinbaum/Cuartoscuro) Zaldívar, a former Supreme Court justice who resigned in late 2023 to join Sheinbaum’s presidential election campaign team , noted that the registrations were made on an “executive power” website. Mexico’s Congress and the judiciary also accepted registrations, as they — in addition to an “executive power” committee headed up by Zaldívar — will select candidates ...

This week’s weather forecast predicts frost and colder-than-usual temperatures in many parts of Mexico.  These freezing weather conditions are the result of residual polar air and two new cold fronts that are expected to overlap in the following days. These three weather systems could also lead to rainfall and strong winds in coastal areas of Mexico. Mañana, un nuevo #FrenteFrío ingresará sobre la frontera norte y noreste de #México , lo que originará fuertes #Rachas de #Viento en #Coahuila , #NuevoLeón y #Tamaulipas . Toda la información en https://t.co/CKEnUOqJgu pic.twitter.com/navv9MCWO2 — CONAGUA Clima (@conagua_clima) November 25, 2024 The National Meteorological System (SMN) said freezing temperatures are particularly expected in the early hours of the morning and at night in the following states: Minimum temperatures of -15 to -10 degrees Celsius, with frost: Chihuahua and Durango. Minimum temperatures of -5 to 0 degrees Celsius, with frost: Baja Californi...