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The FIFA World Cup delivered the week’s most jubilant moments, as Mexico’s national team closed out the group stage with a perfect record , beating Czechia 3-0 on Wednesday night in a match that sent El Tri into the knockout round undefeated. The goals and the stadium roar were matched by diplomatic warmth off the pitch: Spain’s King Felipe VI arrived at the National Palace on Thursday evening for his first meeting with a Mexican president since the inauguration of former President López Obrador eight years ago , a visit framed by both governments as a turning point after years of friction rooted in Mexico’s 2019 demand that the Spanish Crown apologize for Spain’s 16th century conquest of the Aztec Empire. While soccer dominated the national mood, the week also brought more sobering news. The newspaper Reforma published excerpts from a forthcoming memoir by former U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar, in which he wrote that AMLO was “very concerned” abo...

After a full season 2 of “Confidently Wrong about raising and educating your kids in Mexico,” George and I are back at it again, taking on important topics impacting Mexico. Our objective with this podcast, as always, is to do a deeper dive into topics that we find many people (including George!) are often “Confidently Wrong” about: topics that social media tends to misrepresent, stereotypes that are shallow and misleading, and issues that people tend to form a very superficial opinion on. Our goal is not to convince you one way or another about our opinion, but rather arm you with more facts, data and perspectives to help you form a more informed opinion. As we often say in Mexico News Daily, our aim is not to tell you what to think, but rather to help inform you to be better prepared on how to think. With that backdrop, our first episode of Season 3 is a good one. When many (if not most) people hear the word “fracking,” they often have a negativ...

President Sheinbaum has suspended school activities and ordered mandatory home office (teleworking) for the public sector in Mexico City for June 30. The Mexican national soccer team plays a Round of 32 World Cup match at Mexico City Stadium (Estadio Azteca) on that Tuesday against a third-place finisher still undetermined on Friday morning. The president’s decree is intended to alleviate traffic, enhance mobility and improve road safety ahead of that all-important game. In announcing the decree, Luisa Alcalde, the Sheinbaum administration’s legal counsel, emphasized that providers of essential services, whether public or private, are exempt from the mandate, including security, health, transportation, telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation. (Luisa Alcalde) In a social media post published on Friday, Sheinbaum’s legal counsel Luisa Alcalde explained that the decree instructs “agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration … to grant the necessary fa...

The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) board voted on Thursday to maintain the central bank’s benchmark interest rate at 6.50%, even as inflation continues to decline. At Banxico’s fourth monetary policy meeting of 2026, all five members of the central bank’s board voted in favor of keeping the overnight interbank interest rate at 6.50%. Meat prices were a big decliner during the first half of June, at 6.15% compared to the same period last year. (Jose Ignacio-Pompe / Unsplash) Banxico cut its key interest rate to that level in early May , and indicated at the time that there would be no further reductions in the near future. Therefore, Thursday’s decision was no surprise. The Bank of Mexico’s interest rate decision came a day after the national statistics agency INEGI reported that Mexico’s annual headline inflation rate was 3.55% in the first half of June, down from 3.94% across May . Banxico targets 3% inflation, with tolerance for a 2-4% range. In a s...

With less than a week to go, a June 30 deadline for pre-paid Mexican cell phone users to link their number to their personal identity has been extended. With less than half of Mexico’s over 140 million phone lines registered, millions of people will now face staggered cutoff dates running from mid-August to late December. The federal government last year implemented a mandatory mobile phone registry policy on the basis of public safety, saying that associating cell phone numbers with personal identities would help reduce telephone fraud, extortion and other crimes whose perpetrators use anonymous or easily rotated numbers. People who hadn’t registered their pre-paid cell phone line by June 30 were set to face service cuts. Officials say the registry will reduce extortion, which is often committed using anonymous, pre-paid phones. (Shutterstock) However, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT) on Thursday announced not one but 10 new deadlines, the earliest of...

In last week’s “Mexico in Numbers” article we presented 10 facts about the Mexico-U.S. border . This week, we shift our focus to Mexico’s other land borders, those it shares with the Central American nations of Belize and Guatemala. To enhance your knowledge of Mexico’s southern border, here’s a quick crash course in 10 numbers. 959 This is the length in kilometers of the Mexico-Guatemala border, according to national statistics agency INEGI . The border runs from the Pacific coast in the municipality of Suchiate , Chiapas, to the tripoint monument between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. The monument is located near Pioneros del Río Xnohá, a community in the municipality of Calakmul , Campeche. The length of the Mexico-Guatemala border is just under one-third (30.5%) of the length of the Mexico-U.S. border, which measures 3,145 kilometers. The Mexico-Guatemala border includes stretches of the Suchiate and Usumacinta Rivers. 288  This is the length in k...

Mexican soccer fans celebrated deep into a rainy night after El Tri found the net three times in the second half to ease past Czechia and complete its first-ever perfect group stage performance at a World Cup. With Wednesday’s 3-0 victory at Mexico City Stadium, El Tri finished atop Group A with a 3-0-0 record and remains one of just four teams yet to concede a goal. Teen soccer star Gilberto Mora provided a key pass into the box around minute 60, allowing winger Julián Quiñones to score Mexico´s second goal of the night . (Moisés Pablo / Cuartoscuro.com) Coach Javier Aguirre’s men can now rest and watch how the Round of 32 knockout bracket fills in, knowing they will face a yet-to-be-determined third-place finisher next Tuesday in Mexico City. The team’s perfect record and +6 goal differential ensures that El Tri will finish no worse than fifth-best after the group stage, and thus be matched with one of the worst third-place finishers. A pedestrian first half saw Czechia exert pr...