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Remittances to Mexico increased 3.1% annually in the first six months of 2026, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) reported Monday, rebounding from a 4.6% decline in 2025 . Banxico’s data shows that Mexico received US $30.76 billion in remittances between January and June, up from $29.84 billion in the same period of last year. That total was the second highest on record for the first six months of a year, behind only the $31.34 billion Mexico received in remittances in the January-June period of 2024 . More than 99% of the money came into the country via electronic transfers. Banxico also reported on Monday that remittances to Mexico increased 4.2% annually in June to reach $5.47 billion, the second highest monthly total this year after May. It was the second consecutive month that incoming remittances — most of which are transferred by Mexicans living and working in the United States — exceeded $5 billion. Despite the annual increase in remittances in June, the millions of Mexican...

The Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced Tuesday that it had dismantled four “illicit fuel processing centers” across three states, dealing another blow to the illegal fuel trade in Mexico. In a statement , the FGR said that in coordination with the federal Security Ministry, the National Guard and the logistics subsidiary of state oil company Pemex, it carried out “strategic actions to identify and dismantle” the makeshift refineries. Cuatro centros de procesamiento de huachicol fueron desmantelados por fuerzas federales en los estados de San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo y Morelos. Las labores de inteligencia e investigación, así como el intercambio de información permitieron ubicar dichos inmuebles. #LaJornadaBC … pic.twitter.com/rnCHPFjVSu — La Jornada Baja California (@LaJornadaBC) August 4, 2026 Two of the illegal fuel processing facilities were located in San Luis Potosí, one was in Hidalgo and another was in Morelos. The FGR said they wer...

Students at Mexico’s leading public university are making their own beer, but it’s not the stereotypical case of mischievous young people setting up a homebrew kit to party in their dorm rooms. Rather, the Chemistry Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is carrying out a research project at the campus’s Educational Pilot Beer Plant, using normally wasted foods to diversify the flavors available in the national market while enriching the nutritional content of the beverage. Students are experimenting with so-called “adjuncts” — carbohydrate-rich ingredients that complement the malt during the brewing process — and incorporating seasonal foods into the beer-making process.  The approach reduces organic waste, lowers costs and produces a beer with additional nutritional characteristics, while keeping the alcohol content at or below 8%. Agustín Reyo-Herrera, head of the research team, said a primary ingredient thus far has been overripe bananas, of whi...

A water cooperation agreement between the Chihuahua state government and the Israeli international cooperation agency MASHAV has become the center of social conflict and the cause of growing protests amid extreme water stress in the state. On Saturday, protesters called by the Save the Hills of Chihuahua and the Feminist Assembly marched through the streets of the capital city of Chihuahua, accusing the state government and the Central Water and Sanitation Board (JCAS) of promoting Zionism and doing business with a government they accuse of committing genocide in Gaza.  In addition to the protests in Chihuahua aimed specifically at the water pact, anti-Israel marches took place across the country, including in Mexico City. (Estrella Josento/Cuartoscuro) The demonstrations were part of a nationwide day of action involving at least 14 states, where protesters called for a ceasefire in Gaza and demanded that the Mexican government end diplomatic and trade relations with Israel.  At th...

Insecurity and adverse weather conditions have wrought havoc on the economy of Sinaloa, a state where rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel have been engaged in a bloody battle since 2024. The economy of the northern state contracted 4.5% on a quarter-over-quarter basis in the first three months of 2026, the national statistics agency INEGI reported last week . Among Mexico’s 32 federal entities, 20 recorded sequential contractions in the first quarter of the year, but Sinaloa’s economic result was easily the worst. On an annual basis, the northern state’s economy contracted 1.2% in the first three months of 2026, Sinaloa’s worst first quarter result since 2021. Adriana García , economic analysis coordinator at the Mexico City-based think tank México ¿cómo vamos?, told the newspaper El Universal that the poor economic results in Sinaloa are mainly due to insecurity. Violence has dampened investment in the state and stifled the opening of new businesses, she sa...

Two migrants were arrested on charges of inciting a riot at an immigration holding center in the southern state of Chiapas on Saturday night. The two men were arrested and transferred to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the state capital, where they were being processed for immediate deportation. The incident occurred at the Siglo XXI Migration Station in the border town of Tapachula — the largest immigration detention center in Latin America — where approximately 40 migrants were being processed after being detained in different parts of the country. Some 65,000 migrants — many of whom are deported from the U.S. and transferred by land to Tapachula or the INM station in Villahermosa, Tabasco — are stranded in southern Mexico awaiting resolution of their cases. (Damián Sánchez/Cuartoscuro) The National Migration Institute (INM) said the two men in question — reportedly Venezuelan nationals — began displaying aggressive behavior, prompting a broader disturbance in the station.  The newly arrived m...

This week, we report on a new proposal to protect the city’s green lung, the Bosque La Primavera (Primavera Forest), from real estate development, and a summer book sale. But first, let’s take a look at an exciting new cultural space in Guadalajara’s Historic Center. Motor is a new cultural space in Guadalajara’s Historic Center On Juan Manuel Street in Guadalajara’s center and protected cultural heritage zone, a historical gem dating back to 1850 has recently been restored and reimagined as a new cultural space for artists. The new gallery space Motor, opened by local artist Claudio Limón, offers more than just another cultural attraction in Guadalajara. It’s also preserving historic architecture. (Ángel Llamas) The building has a long and winding history. It initially served as a residence, but was later repurposed as a printing facility, and then a mechanical workshop. Its latest reincarnation is the work of local artist Claudio Limón, whose interest in architecture was s...