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

A city brand does not begin with a slogan. It is built by turning identity, urban policy, and innovation into a shared economic advantage. Cities no longer compete solely for tourists. They compete for talent, investment, conferences, companies, students, creative industries, and international attention. Faced with this pressure, many governments make the same mistake: they commission a logo, design a campaign, and present a slogan before deciding what position they want to o

For decades, Mexico described migration through the language of departure: the person who leaves, the family that waits, the remittance that keeps consumption afloat, and the community that learns to live with an empty chair. That story remains real; deportations, family separation, precarious work, and immigration vulnerability prove that rupture has not disappeared. But it no longer explains the whole present. A generation has grown up across languages, trips, documents, vi

The World Cup can project Guadalajara as a global city, but it can also expose its metropolitan challenges. Guadalajara will not only host matches during the 2026 World Cup. It will receive an uncomfortable opportunity: to prove whether it can behave like a global city without losing its local identity. The capital of Jalisco enters the tournament with clear advantages. It has cultural brand power, an international airport, gastronomy, creative industries, proximity to Zapopa

The 3rd Brilliant Minds Festival By Enrique Michel Velasco 2026 opened a cultural, humanist and binational agenda to rethink Mexico’s relationship with its migrant communities. Mexico does not end at its border. It also lives in every migrant community that preserves its language, its culture, its symbols and its family memory far from the national territory. That was one of the central ideas that marked the 3rd Brilliant Minds Festival By Enrique Michel Velasco 2026, held at

A port can enrich a municipality or overwhelm it completely. The difference is not only in the ships. It is in local government. Altamira is not merely a strategic infrastructure asset on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a test of public capacity. If the port grows faster than the city, the promise of logistics can turn into road pressure, more expensive land, saturated permitting processes and social conflict. Ports are no longer just points of entry and exit for goods. They ar

Mexico has a second foreign policy. It was not born in a foreign ministry. It was built by millions of Mexicans who work, pay taxes, send money, open businesses, vote, defend their identity, and negotiate every day with schools, banks, hospitals, unions, companies, and governments beyond the national territory. That is the uncomfortable truth, the Mexican diaspora already operates as a parallel diplomacy. The problem is not that Mexico lacks global influence. The problem

For years, scientific diplomacy was seen as a distant conversation among foreign ministries, universities, and multilateral organizations. Not anymore. In Mexico, that logic has begun to scale down and reach the ground where competitiveness is truly won or lost: cities and their local governments. The municipality that understands how to connect talent, research centers, technology companies, and international cooperation will not only attract academic prestige; it will attra

Talking about smart cities in Latin America is no longer about screens, sensors, and futuristic promises. It is about productivity, foreign trade, energy security, investment attraction, and the ability to integrate into global value chains connecting Mexico with the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In a context of slower regional growth, the issue has moved beyond aesthetics: the IMF projects Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by 2.2% this year, with

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 real