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The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico (AmCham) have signed an agreement to increase sponsored clinical research in public hospitals, with a projected investment exceeding 766 million pesos (US $44 million) during the 2026–2030 period.  The agreement aims to have more pharmaceutical industry clinical trials conducted within IMSS’s hospital network. The project involves the IMSS Foundation, AmCham, and the pharmaceutical companies Amgen, AstraZ

Mexico City’s public care system and Mayor Clara Brugada’s community center initiative won praise from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during the 2026 Urban 20 Mayors Summit (U20), an annual gathering of mayors from major G20 cities and other metropolises around the world. Speaking alongside Brugada in New York on Sunday, Mamdani said that Mexico City is a city “that many of us look to for inspiration, especially in how we answer the crisis of care in our economies.”

More than 100,000 olive ridley sea turtles came ashore at Oaxaca’s Playa Escobilla in a single mass nesting event last week, but the spectacle masks a fragile reproductive outlook: As few as 30% to 40% of the eggs may hatch. According to the newspaper El Universal Oaxaca, 101,500 females emerged from the Pacific Ocean in Santa María Tonameca last Tuesday in a huge, synchronous nesting event known as an arribada.  The sixth arribada (literally “arrival” in Spanish) of the 2026-27 season lifted t

Aeroméxico is investigating a possible leak of customer information after the federal Ministry of Anti-Corruption and Good Governance (SABG) identified an online user offering to sell a trove of over 15 million passenger records. However, Aeroméxico said Sunday that it hadn’t identified any compromise of its customers’ financial information. 🚨Detectan posible exposición de datos personales vinculada a Aeroméxico La Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno identificó indicios de una

A day after pledging Sunday to keep federal security forces in Sinaloa “as long as necessary,” President Sheinbaum on Monday repeated her conviction that U.S. interference precipitated the cartel turf war plaguing the troubled state. The violence, previously centered in Culiacán and rural areas, has spread south in recent months to the resort city of Mazatlán. While in Culiacán, the Sinaloa state capital, on Sunday, Sheinbaum said Governor Graciela Domínguez can count on the complete

Security forces arrested seven people and freed three kidnapping victims during an operation Friday afternoon in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, a popular seaside resort city also known as Rocky Point. Authorities also seized an arsenal that included more than 40 long guns, approximately 4,000 rounds of ammunition, two Minimi machine guns and a Browning M2 .50 caliber gun, the federal Security Cabinet announced on Monday. En Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, trabajos de investigación de @fgjesonora, con informac

Hurricane Polo is expected to quickly intensify after forming Monday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guerrero, with Civil Protection encouraging residents of several states to remain vigilant and follow safety recommendations. Polo could bring heavy rain, rough surf and tropical-storm-force winds to parts of Mexico this week as it intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane near the coast of Michoacán by Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned. ⚠️ #Polo ahora como #Huracá

This week, we have an update on construction of the Guadalajara International Airport’s second entrance and how the buildout of bus rapid transit (Line 5) along the Chapala highway has affected the local environment. Airport’s 2nd entrance road now expected to open by March 2027 The project to add a second airport entrance kicked off in earnest 13 months ago. It aimed to ease chronic traffic bottlenecks along the Chapala highway, where airport travelers, daily commuters and commercial trucks all

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds 📵 Cell phones and tablets to be banned in primary and secondary schools: Education Minister Mario Delgado said federal and state education authorities agreed Friday to ban the devices at both levels. High schools will set their own limits. Once Sheinbaum approves and promulgates the agreement, it will take effect after 30 days. 🔍 Sheinbaum, Chihuahua governor talk security: Sheinbaum said she met Gov. Maru Campos in Ciudad Juárez on Saturday and reminded her t

As World Car-Free Day approaches (Sept. 22), Mexico City residents have more reason than most to consider alternative modes of transportation, after the capital has again been named the most congested city in the world.  According to the annual Traffic Index by navigation-device maker TomTom, Mexico City recorded an average congestion level of 75.9% in 2025. Even though the indicator fell by 3.6 percentage points compared to 2024, the city occupies the top overall position, dethroning Barranquil

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds 📊 2027 budget’s “five pillars”: Finance Minister Édgar Amador Zamora outlined the proposed 10.5-trillion-peso ($621-billion USD) 2027 budget’s five pillars, namely economic growth, protecting government priorities, strengthening revenue, more efficient spending and fiscal discipline. He highlighted that the budget deficit is projected to fall to 3.9% of GDP in 2027 from 4.1% this year. 🚫 “No new taxes,” Sheinbaum insists: Th

THE MND PESO INDEX™ Tracking the exchange rate people actually experience MND Intelligence · Fifth edition Welcome to the fifth edition of the MND Peso Index™, part of the MND Intelligence™ suite of data products developed by Mexico News Daily. The MND Peso Index™ is a monthly purchasing power parity measure that assesses whether the Mexican peso is overvalued or undervalued against the US dollar by comparing the prices of a standardized basket of 20 goods and services in Mexico and Dallas, T

A major new 11-tower housing and hotel development in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, has been proposed at a projected cost of 515 million pesos (US $30.5 million).  The proposal from BM/5096 Business Trust was published in the Environment Ministry’s Ecological Gazette on Aug. 20 for review, and the start of construction is contingent upon the development obtaining the necessary Environmental Impact Assessment (MIA). The project, known as Ocean II, will cover 65,453 square meters of land, including

Just this morning, the 2025 PISA 2025 results were released and as feared, they are very concerning both on a global scale and for Mexico specifically. As a reminder, PISA assessments test 760,000 15-year-old students in 91 countries in science, mathematics and reading. The results show a continued decline globally in all three areas with reading being the largest long-term weakness. Singapore students scored highest, followed closely by China, Japan and South Korea. Latest PISA survey reveals 4

Mexico captured almost one-fifth of the U.S. import market in July, well ahead of second-placed Canada, shipping a record US $60.55 billion worth of goods to its northern neighbor, according to official U.S. data. Mexico’s share of the $332.92 billion U.S. import market in July was 18.2%, ahead of Canada (10.1%); China (8.1%); Vietnam (7.9%); and Taiwan (7.7%), according to data published last Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In other words, near

A 20-year-old engineering student from a farming family in Chihuahua has won a national award by developing an irrigation filter that could make water go further for drought-stricken farmers. Luis Ángel Robles Morales, a mechatronics student at Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Chihuahua campus, leads OAKs Filtration, which last week received the 2026 Eugenio Garza Sada Award in the category of student social innovation. Robles’s grandfather grew corn, chiles and alfalfa, and his father branched

The latest edition of an OECD-conducted global education evaluation reveals a disturbing decline in the skills of Mexican students: four in 10 15-year-olds are scoring below the basic level in science, mathematics and reading. The test, called the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), has been administered periodically since the turn of the century; this time to 7,843 students from 297 schools in Mexico. The 41.8% of students who scored below the basic level in the science/math/

Federal authorities dismantled a clandestine cryptocurrency mining farm in the state of Puebla where approximately 300 computers illegally connected to a hydroelectric complex were found to be mining digital assets. The cryptomining farm was discovered in Tlaola, a municipality in the remote Sierra Norte region of Puebla, thanks to a joint investigation carried out by the Federal Attorney General’s Office, the Navy and state prosecutors. En Tlaola, un inmueble presuntamente utilizado para miner

Money trumps tradition in professional sports, at least where the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is concerned. That was the takeaway from the recent report by Spanish-language tennis journalist Iván Aguilar that the ATP 500 Series event in Acapulco (Abierto Mexicano Telcel) will go away in 2028 to make way for a new Masters 1000 Series event in Saudi Arabia.  Acapulco has been a mainstay on the ATP Tour since 2001, hosting the most consequential tennis tournament in Mexico and a marqu

Mexico and the United States are currently carrying out an anti-drone operation at the border between Baja California and California, according to the Mexican Ministry of National Defense (Defensa). Criminal groups use drones near the Mexico-U.S. border to assist their illicit activities, including the smuggling of people and drugs into the United States. In a statement issued on Monday, Defensa said that the Águila Alta (High Eagle) “binational anti-drone operation” is taking place