Africa is no longer a marginal note in the global conversation—it is becoming one of the century’s major geoeconomic bets. For Mexico, that shift matters more than public policy debates often admit. The combination of rapid urbanization, expanding trade, port infrastructure upgrades, and new logistics alliances is repositioning several African cities as hubs of business, innovation, and diplomacy. Within this landscape, Alexandria stands out for its historical weight and mode

Full credit to the original author, Víctor Jesús Hernández Salinas. The original article puts forward an uncomfortable but necessary idea: in Mexico and Latin America, artificial intelligence has been celebrated first as spectacle and only later as a tool for real transformation. This perspective is especially relevant for  interAlcaldes  because it connects directly with a central challenge for local governments and municipal economies: technology alone does not transform re