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

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

Mexico may have trade agreements, a strategic border, industrial capacity and skilled labor. But without water, energy and well-planned land, nearshoring will remain a promise. That is the uncomfortable truth. The country’s next competitive advantage will not be only its proximity to the United States. It will be its ability to prove that its territories can sustain real investment: with available water, reliable megawatts, clear permits, productive land, sufficient drain

Mexico wants productive young people, stable families, more formality, and a sustainable demographic future. But it is asking all of that from a generation that works late, earns little, pays high rent, moves slowly, and raises children almost alone. The numbers do not add up. The problem of youth employment in Mexico is not only a labor issue. It is a failure of national design. The country artificially separated three decisions that, in real life, happen at the same tim

The Plan Mexico will not be measured by the decrees signed by the President. It will be measured by the permits municipalities are able to unlock. That is the uncomfortable truth. President Claudia Sheinbaum presented this week a strategy to accelerate investment, simplify procedures and provide greater certainty to productive capital. The official message is clear: Mexico wants to move faster. It wants to attract investment. It wants to organize industrial relocation. It

Mexico has an educational debt that almost never appears in official speeches: we train students to pass exams, but not always to make life decisions. A child can memorize historical dates, mathematical formulas, and the names of rivers. They can spend years copying definitions into a notebook. But too often, they reach adulthood without knowing how to create a budget, understand credit, save with purpose, protect themselves from debt, or grasp what it means not to save for

Mexico spent decades understanding family planning as a policy to have fewer children. At the time, it made sense: the country was younger, more rural, with larger households and insufficient public services. The message was clear: fewer births meant more opportunities. The problem is that no one prepared the country for the day after. Today, having children is no longer just a family decision. It is an economic, labor, urban and deeply social decision. For millions of yo

Mexico is part of global value chains… but it does not control them. And in today’s economy, that difference means everything. The world no longer produces for efficiency. It now produces for survival. Geopolitical tensions, logistical disruptions, and economic security concerns have shattered the linear model that dominated for decades. Today, value chains no longer follow predictable routes: they are designed, negotiated, and defended. In 2025, global trade surpassed $32

Security, water, mobility, and digital government: the decisions that will test its capacity for metropolitan governance Naucalpan no longer has room to think of itself as a municipality that merely manages problems. Because of its location, urban density, economic weight, and connection to the country’s capital, it is a decisive piece of the metropolitan puzzle. And for that very reason, its challenge is no small one: to prove that it can govern complexity, not just react

Mexico trains engineers it cannot find, exports talent it cannot retain, and attracts investment it cannot scale. This is not a paradox—it is a structural failure. The country is not losing talent; it is failing to integrate it. In a global economy where the speed of connection defines value, Mexico continues to operate with disconnected pieces. The data is clear. According to the World Bank, Mexico maintains one of the highest rates of engineering graduates in Latin Americ

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