#México

The Banco de México building in downtown Mexico City, lit up at night, in 2026.

Monetary policy

Mexico's central bank surprises with a cut, leaving its benchmark rate at 6.25% — the lowest since March 2022

An official ceremony for the avocado production and export programme in Uruapan, Michoacán, in March 2014.

Mexico resumes avocado shipments to the United States on Thursday after a two-week stoppage in Michoacán

The facade of the Banco de México building in Mexico City's historic centre, in 2019.

Remittances to Mexico fall to US$5.36 billion in September, the lowest monthly total since April

The facade of INEGI's main building in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2024.

Mexico's economy grows 0.9% in the third quarter and accelerates to 3.2% year on year, its best reading since 2023

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

George Russell, now one of the two drivers still mathematically able to catch Antonelli, at the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix.

Antonelli can clinch the Formula 1 title on Sunday in Mexico City, where Checo Pérez reaches 300 races

The headquarters of the Instituto Nacional Electoral in Tlalpan, Mexico City, in 2018.

Mexico's electoral authority loses its president as Guadalupe Taddei resigns and Congress opens the search for a successor

A Cemex concrete mixer in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, in 2023. The United States is the Mexican cement maker's second-largest market by EBITDA.

Cemex earns $407 million in the third quarter, up 55%, and posts a record quarterly free cash flow of $723 million

Guillermo del Toro, one of two filmmakers honoured with the Filmoteca UNAM medal in Morelia, at the Saturn Awards in March 2026.

Morelia film festival opens its 24th edition with 96 titles and UNAM medals for Del Toro and Cuarón

The Cantona archaeological zone, in eastern Puebla, photographed in 2013. Cantona is one of the cities whose rise coincided with the decline of Tetelihtic, the site where the solar observatory was confirmed.

Mexico confirms a prehispanic solar observatory in Puebla's Sierra Norte, the first recorded outside the Maya area

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at her morning press conference on 21 January 2026.

Sheinbaum unveils a 8.4-trillion-peso infrastructure pipeline for the next four years

The Senate building on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, in 2022.

Mexico's Congress clears the reform requiring single nationality for presidents and governors

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at one of her morning press conferences, in 2024.

Mexico's Senate passes the so-called "anti-meme law", and Sheinbaum says it bans no memes at all

Hurricane Polo moving north off Mexico's Pacific coast on 28 September 2026, a day before it made landfall in Sonora, in this GOES satellite image.

Hurricane Polo makes landfall at Guaymas as a Category 1 and floods the Sonoran port's downtown

A GOES satellite image of Hurricane Polo off Mexico's southwest coast on 23 September 2026.

Hurricane Polo weakens to Category 4 off Baja California Sur as Mexico braces for two landfalls

U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, September 4, 2026

Drug trafficking

US drops Venezuela from list of countries failing on drug control, keeps Colombia