The magazine that analyzes the power of Mexican municipalities in the economy, governance and Mexico's relationship with the world.

In 2025, urban sustainability has ceased to be a matter of “good intentions” and has become a competitiveness strategy. In the United States, the deployment of federal funds —such as the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund— is financing high-impact municipal plans and projects. By November 2024, more than $4.3 billion had been allocated to 25 state and local governments, along with an additional $27 billion earmarked for distributed climat

If the competitiveness of cities is defined by the talent they nurture, then educational innovation through digital platforms is the main highway. In Jalisco, this shift is no longer a promise: the state’s ecosystem already integrates a public broadband network, content portals, and large-scale teacher training. RED Jalisco, presented as the first public high-speed network connecting all 125 municipalities, was financed with 5 billion pesos and deploys more than 5,600 km of f

The political landscape of 2025 along the U.S.–Mexico border delivers a clear message: in Mexico, the 2024 presidential election capped a cycle of parity reforms that already permeates local structures; in the United States, municipalities continue to build a “pipeline” of women who move from community roles into government. The path is simultaneously educational, technological, and economic: leadership training, digital skills, and access to funding networks. The challenge n

The power grid has ceased to be a passive system of wires and substations: in 2024 it became a platform of data and real-time decision-making. The change was not theoretical. In Mexico, the May heatwave triggered rolling blackouts across much of the country and exposed the urgent need to digitalize distribution and manage demand with surgical precision. In the United States, the federal regulator reformed transmission planning to prepare the grid for peak consumption from dat

The year 2025 began at full throttle for the Jalisco–Texas corridor. In 2024, Texas–Mexico trade closed at $281.2 billion, with Mexico as Texas’ top export destination ($123.7 billion, 27% of the total) and also its largest source of imports ($157.5 billion). That volume translates into increasingly dense supply chains that are breaking records: in March 2025, cross-border freight between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada reached a historic high, 8.4% above March 2024. For Jalisco

The frontier of competitiveness is no longer geographical: it is the speed at which knowledge moves from the laboratory to the market. In 2024, the numbers told a clear story. The United States maintained its R&D intensity above 3% of GDP and closed 2022 with US$892 billion in R&D spending; estimates for 2023 raised that figure to US$940 billion, with the private sector driving 78% of the investment and universities contributing 11% of the total effort. It is a forceful remin

2025 has held up a mirror: the border can be either a bottleneck or a multiplier of competitiveness. Nearshoring continues to drive momentum, but so do risks—synthetic drug smuggling, human trafficking, cargo theft, and political volatility that already showed its sharp edge with tariff episodes that froze flows in the Juárez–El Paso corridor. The message is clear: without intelligent, binational security, North America’s most important trade corridor remains vulnerable to sh

Montreal, Canada.—The Honoris Causa Foundation (FHC) and the InterAlcaldes Foundation announce the Mexico Pavilion at InterAlcaldes Fest Canada 2026, a space that will bring the Canadian community, the Mexican diaspora, and international investors closer to the culture, economy, and municipal talent of Tlalpan, Zapopan, and Monterrey. Under the concept “Mexico’s World Cup cities, present in the World Cup city of Montreal,” the pavilion will combine cultural, economic, and soc

The U.S.–Mexico border is at a hydrologic inflection point. In 2024, the Colorado River system operated under extraordinary cuts and conservation that momentarily stabilized Lakes Mead and Powell without fixing the river’s “structural deficit.” The current binational agreement (Minute 323) kept cooperation on track and, for 2024, meant a 50,000 acre-feet reduction for Mexico—about 5%—plus an additional 30,000 acre-feet contributed to Lake Mead as part of a lower-basin tri-nat

If 2024 taught us anything, it is that empowering women in rural communities is not charity: it is smart public policy and tangible economic development. In Mexico, the demographic and productive weight of rural women is undeniable. INMUJERES reported that only 35.6% of rural women aged 15 and older participate in the economy, 14 points below the urban average—an inequality that limits municipal revenues, innovation, and family well-being. At the same time, total female econo