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Old tires and tree trunks are getting a second life in Toluca, where municipal workers are turning recovered materials into playground equipment, benches and tables for the city’s parks. Workers and neighborhood residents installed the equipment at Vicente Guerrero Park last month, creating a test site for a program officials hope to expand to schools and other public spaces in the capital of México state. The skilled work that Toluca city empoyees do to convert collected scrap into safe and useful playground amenities has the added benefit of keeping old tires and tree trimmings out of waterways and vacant lots. (Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar / Cuartoscuro.com) The park’s new amenities were made by municipal public services employees using materials recovered through local waste collection and recycling efforts. Public services director Gustavo Anaya Maya said the tires, discarded furniture and tree trunks were collected through events in Toluca’s 48 districts and at 12 collection c...

Isaias, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season , is whipping past the Yucatán Peninsula on its approach to the U.S. Gulf Coast, while Tropical Storm Simon is poised to become a hurricane in the Pacific by Thursday night. Hurricane Isaias, located 280 km northwest of Progreso in northwestern Yucatán is bringing heavy and intense rainfall to eastern and southeastern Mexico. Actualización del #Huracán #Isaias sobre el #GolfoDeMéxico. Mantiene su desplazamiento hacia el este-noreste. Detalles ⬇️ https://t.co/KKkyat7qtd — CONAGUA Clima (@conagua_clima) October 8, 2026 After rapidly intensifying over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of the peninsula, “Isaias” is heading on a trajectory directly towards the southern United States. Upgraded to a hurricane on Wednesday night, Isaias — the ninth named storm of the season — is the latest first hurricane in the 60-year modern era.  The previous record-long wait for the first hurricane in the satellite era was un...

How many foreign-born residents does Mexico have? Where in Mexico do they live? We answer those questions in this “Mexico in Numbers” article, which is based on the recently published results of INEGI’s 2025 Intercensal Survey . Let’s delve into the data. Mexico has almost 1.2 million foreign-born residents INEGI reported that 1,170,030 (1.17 million) foreign-born residents lived in Mexico in 2025. That figure represents an increase of just 147 people — or 0.01% — from 2020, when the most recent census was conducted in Mexico. Mexico’s foreign-born population represents just 0.9% of Mexico’s total population, which was 130.91 million in 2025 , according to the results of the Intercensal Survey. By contrast, foreign-born residents of the United States accounted for about 14.8% of the U.S. national population in 2024 , according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey , a large-scale survey of American households. Just over h...

Mexico’s trade surplus with the United States increased more than 20% year over year in the first eight months of 2026, climbing to almost US $156 billion as Mexican exports to the U.S. reached a record high. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Tuesday that Mexico’s exports to the United States totaled $419.34 billion between January and August, while its imports from the U.S. were worth $263.47 billion. Mexico thus recorded a trade surplus of $155.87 billion, an increase of 21.2% compared to its surplus with the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025. In August, Mexico recorded a trade surplus of almost $27 billion with its northern neighbor. Of all countries around the world, Mexico recorded the second-highest surplus with the U.S. between January and August, behind Vietnam . According to the Bank of Canada , “[a] trade deficit is not necessarily bad, and a trade surplus is not necessarily good.” In Mexico’s case...

Iván Cazarín Molina — the alleged regional leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) — was captured on Monday by federal authorities, Security Minister (SSPC) Omar García Harfuch confirmed in a social media post . The detention was the result of a joint operation carried out by Army special forces and the SSPC’s Operations Group, with information from the National Intelligence Center. The National Guard also collaborated, Harfuch said, as did Criminal Investigation Agency investigators from the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR), who identified his movements and located him. Cae en Jalisco Iván N, alias “El Tanque”, presunto operador del CJNG El titular de la Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, informó sobre la detención en Zapopan de Iván N, alias “El Tanque”, presunto operador regional del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación en Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco y Puebla. El operativo conjunto incluyó al Ejército, la SSPC, la Fiscalía Gen...

Fixed capital investment in Mexico — money spent by the private and public sectors on long-term assets such as houses, factories and machinery — increased 6% annually in July, the strongest growth of any month in two years. The national statistics agency INEGI reported the seasonally adjusted growth rate on Monday in its monthly report on gross fixed capital formation, a measure of fixed capital investment (FCI). It is the product of a 5.9% year-over-year increase in private sector FCI and a 6.9% increase in public sector FCI. Annual private sector FCI growth increased 2 percentage points from June to reach its highest level in 30 months, a sign that businesses’ confidence in their long-term economic prospects is improving. However, public sector FCI growth slowed markedly from June, a month in which the annual expansion was 17.3%. The overall FCI growth rate was up slightly from a 5.9% annual expansion in June . The month-over-month increase in FCI was 1.4%. In an X post ...

Federal contractors felled a centuries-old cottonwood on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday after U.S. Border Patrol agents removed protesters who had spent about 70 days trying to save it from President Donald Trump’s border wall expansion. The tree in Lochiel, Arizona, known to activists as the “grandmother” tree, was the last of four old cottonwoods targeted for removal at the site. Conservation groups estimated its age at 200 to 250 years, the newspaper La Jornada reported. Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona–a tree older than the border itself–to make way for a double border wall through critical jaguar habitat. A dozen protestors were arrested today trying to stop this travesty. — Laiken Jordahl (@LaikenJordahl) October 6, 2026 Activists told the media that 10 people were arrested and another 10 were cited and released. They said agents used a cherry picker to forcibly remove one protester fr...