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To the beat of son jarocho, huapango and zapateado, activists from across the country gathered at Mexico City’s Alameda Central on Friday to demand that President Claudia Sheinbaum keep her campaign promise to ban hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” — and to launch what organizers are calling a new phase of national resistance.  The “Fandango por la vida” — organized by the Alianza Mexicana Contra El Fracking, a coalition of more than 40 civil society organizations

On June 11, 2026, Mexico’s men’s football team will enter Estadio Azteca — officially, Mexico City Stadium — to open its 18th World Cup campaign. It will be the team’s 61st game in a tournament it first entered in 1930. In the 60 matches that the men’s team has played in its World Cup history, it has only ever won 17 of them.  If that record sounds a bit depressing, these statistics really need to be viewed over two periods. Before 1970, Mexico did indeed struggle to leave a ma

For generations of Mexican-raised families, there’s a name that inevitably evokes the purest childlike joy and unfiltered excitement: Cri-Cri. A fictional cricket musician and beloved icon — who is widely believed in Mexico to have inspired the creation of Disney’s Jiminy Cricket character for the 1940 film “Pinocchio” — Cri-Cri has sung his songs, pranced around and delighted the Mexican imagination for nearly a century. Debuting in 1934, the tiny anthropomorphic figure, also known

The week of May 18 in Mexico began with the news that two former Sinaloa state officials — ex-Security Minister Gerardo Mérida Sánchez and ex-Finance Minister Enrique Díaz Vega — had turned themselves in to U.S. authorities. They are the first to face a federal drug trafficking indictment naming 10 current and former Sinaloa-linked officials, including Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, who remains on leave. At her Monday press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed any “risk” fro

Thoughts and opinions about political leaders understandably stir up a lot of emotion, no matter where you live. Oftentimes, the opinions expressed are not very fact-based, and the arguments for or against a given politician tend to be quite superficial. I get it; political views tend to get shaped by experiences that directly affect one’s family, community or business — so they aren’t always formed out of logic. One of the most common questions I get from people is: “How do yo

Guadalajara, known for its burgeoning food and drink scene and proximity to the birthplace of tequila, will host four of the 2026 FIFA World Cup games June 11–26. If you’re one of the lucky folks with a ticket, why not try out some of the best examples of the region’s dining while in town? In Mexico’s second-largest city, modern, sophisticated cuisine that riffs on both the trendy and the traditional can be found in Guadalajara in abundance, as can some of the nation’s best coc

Welcome to MND Tutor! This interactive learning tool is designed to help you improve your Spanish by exploring real news articles from Mexico News Daily. Instead of just memorizing vocabulary lists or grammar rules, you’ll dive into authentic stories about Mexican culture, current events and daily news. A Deloitte report finds that beer sales will account for between 55% and 65% of Mexico’s total economic windfall from co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, making it by far the single b

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I’ve always been an early riser. When the sun starts coming up, my eyes start opening on their own while the thoughts in my brain start darting around. Though I can occasionally stay in bed later, I’m usually up by 8 a.m. Oh, but I do love naps. I would say that I especially like them when I didn’t sleep well the night before, but the truth is, I think I’m one of those people who just need 10 hours of sleep out of every 24 to feel well-rested. Getting those hours all in at the same time is not r

I arrive at NUMU Hotel, tucked into a quieter residential pocket south of San Miguel de Allende’s historic center near Parque Juárez, and I’m immediately greeted by the biggest, laziest and cutest Bernese Mountain Dog that I’ve ever seen.  Pancho, the hotel’s dog, doesn’t do much more than wait around for a belly rub or slowly meander to the closest square, but he bridges what would be a wide gap in most tourist towns between hotel guests and neighborhood locals. Over the

The CIA story that has shadowed Mexican-U.S. relations since late April took a new turn this week. On Wednesday, CNN published a report alleging that the CIA had orchestrated the assassination of a cartel figure on Mexican soil — a claim Mexico’s government rejected in unequivocal terms, calling it false, unverified and based on anonymous sources. At her mañanera, Sheinbaum went further, suggesting the report was part of a coordinated media campaign targeting her government — at the same t

Like most kids growing up in the 1950s, I recited the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school, along with singing “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful” in school assemblies. I was conditioned to believe the United States was the best country, superior to any other in our democracy, equality and freedom. That fabled motto, “the land of opportunity,” is one example of what we call exceptionalism. It’s more than that, though. Extreme versi

Welcome to MND Tutor! This interactive learning tool is designed to help you improve your Spanish by exploring real news articles from Mexico News Daily. Instead of just memorizing vocabulary lists or grammar rules, you’ll dive into authentic stories about Mexican culture, current events and daily news. Sargassum — the foul-smelling brown seaweed — is washing up on Mexico’s Caribbean beaches in record volumes, with the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt surpassing 38 million tons in July

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For decades, Mexico has maintained an ongoing love affair with Japanese culture — most commonly expressed through an addiction to ramen, anime and more. Indeed, Japan has been a fixture in Mexico’s imagination since 1897, when a small Japanese community known as the “Enomoto Colonization Party” arrived in Acacoyagua, Chiapas, to grow coffee as some of the earliest Japanese immigrants to reach Latin America. Today, for those seeking to experience Mexico’s appreciation for Japanese culture in a tr

At the risk of offending some Mexican friends, the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico, was not love at first sight for me. I vividly remember my first trip there, almost 30 years ago. I had recently been hired, fresh out of college, and the company I was working for had a quality problem with some product that had been sold to a customer in Monterrey. It was the middle of summer, the heat was unbearable, and nobody wanted to go — so they sent me to go check things out. I assumed that the meeting

When I heard the news last week that the Public Education Ministry (SEP) had decided that Mexico’s school calendar would be shortened by a month and a half — seemingly out of nowhere — I was already grouchy. “A month and a half early? That’s got to be a prank,” I typed in a group chat I have with a few parents I get along especially well with. “Anyway, about this Mother’s Day event …” Education Minister Mario Delgado is the man ultimately responsib

President Claudia Sheinbaum appointed Juan Carlos Carpio to be the new director of Mexico’s state-owned oil company after the embattled former CEO stepped aside on Thursday.  Víctor Rodríguez resigned to return to his academic pursuits and will continue to support the government from the Institute of Electricity and Clean Energy, Sheinbaum said. El nuevo director de Pemex no es petrolero, es un hombre de números. Juan Carlos Carpio Fragoso es economista por la UNAM, tiene una maestría en Gerenc

Let me start with a confession. When I was first asked to compare Claudia Sheinbaum, Giorgia Meloni and Sanae Takaichi, my instinct was to push back. The piece felt like the kind of thing you write about women that you would never even think to write about men. Nobody, as far as I know, has published a piece comparing Macron, Xi Jinping and Trump on the grounds of them being males in positions of power. Beyond the fact that they are all women leading their countries, what is the basis for puttin

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA on Thursday formally received full control of Mexico City’s Banorte Stadium — better known as Azteca Stadium — only to learn that there remain logistical issues related to the arena’s box seats. With the handover, the venue has now been officially renamed Mexico City Stadium for the duration of the World Cup as FIFA prohibits corporate-sponsored names, a long-standing policy intended to prevent sponsors not affiliated with the organization from receiving exposu