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

In Mexico, crime prevention has moved beyond being solely a public security issue: it is now a key variable in competitiveness, investment attraction, and social stability. In a context where the country recorded a historic trade volume with the United States of $873 billion in 2025 and attracted approximately $41 billion in foreign direct investment, the message to its trade partners across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania is clear: producing more is not enoug

Rail corridors between Mexico and the United States are no longer a technical conversation—they have become a contest for economic power. They are no longer competing only against trucking, but against time, trade uncertainty, and geopolitics. In that battle, rail has regained strategic value: it lowers costs, stabilizes supply chains, and connects industrial hubs with ports, customs, and logistics parks. At a time when the USMCA is under review and rules of origin are under

Few urban duos explain North America’s new economy better than Houston and Monterrey. One concentrates energy power, ports, technical capital, and global access; the other transforms that strength into manufacturing, supply chains, exports, and industrial execution. These are not mirror cities, but complementary ones. As the IMF projects 2.4% growth for the United States and 1.5% for Mexico, the real question is not which country will grow faster, but which metropolitan regio

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

The real connection between Osaka and Querétaro does not emerge from diplomatic rhetoric, but from an increasingly valuable productive alignment: both economies understand that modern competitiveness is built on advanced manufacturing, efficient logistics, and sector specialization. Osaka remains one of Japan’s major industrial hubs, combining research, materials processing, production, and assembly; its ecosystem reports around 1,000 annual collaborations between universitie

There is an uncomfortable truth in North America’s urban economy: many cities are no longer being redesigned first in city halls, but in investment committees. Territory is moving at the pace of real estate capital, logistics funds, industrial developers, and firms that can anticipate—before anyone else—where consumption, manufacturing, data, housing, and value appreciation will emerge. In both Mexico and the United States, this capital is no longer just supporting growth; it

In today’s shifting map of economic power, municipalities can no longer wait for funding to flow solely from federal governments. Competition for investment in infrastructure, water systems, mobility, digitalization, and climate resilience is unfolding in a global environment marked by moderate growth, trade tensions, and fiscal pressure. The IMF projects global growth at 3.3% and notes that technology is cushioning part of the impact of commercial uncertainty. At the same ti

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

In the new geography of capital, cities are no longer competing only to attract factories, logistics hubs, or digital talent. They are competing for financing. And that is where a crucial part of Mexico’s future is being defined. The debate over municipal finance has moved beyond technical discussions confined to local treasuries; it is now about economic sovereignty, infrastructure, water, energy, housing, and the ability to integrate into global value chains linking Mexico