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

The educational gap in marginalized communities of Mexico and the United States has become, in 2025, an unforgiving thermometer of democratic health and regional economic prospects. This is not only about classrooms: it is about social mobility, productivity, and binational cohesion. On both sides of the Rio Grande, governments face a double-edged sword: tangible progress in 2024 and political choices that, this year, may either accelerate—or derail—that momentum. In Mexico

The challenge is double and simultaneous: reducing cross-border crime while sustaining North America’s largest trade corridor. In 2024, trade between Mexico and the United States reached $839.6 billion, while Laredo—its prime node—processed tens of thousands of truck crossings per day, accounting for $331 billion in annual trade at that single port. Any policy that slows legal crossings translates directly into costs for jobs, prices, and trust. Discussing border security inf

The renewal of infrastructure in aging neighborhoods has ceased to be a mere aesthetic upgrade and is now a strategic necessity for competitiveness, public health, and social cohesion on both sides of the border. In 2024, Mexico and the United States accelerated projects that combine hard infrastructure, spatial justice, and civic technologies to reconnect communities, reduce service gaps, and spark local economies. In Mexico, the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urb

On North America’s economic map, the border has ceased to be a dividing line: it is now a platform. The rise of the Mexican diaspora in the United States—through business, professional, and community networks—is fueling the creation of de facto “special economic zones”: preferential tax and customs regimes, strategic trade facilities, and foreign-trade zones that connect capital, talent, and supply chains on both sides of the boundary. The question is no longer whether the di

Migration policy between Mexico and the United States entered 2025 with a paradox: while Mexico consolidated an unprecedented female leadership—Claudia Sheinbaum became the country’s first female president—on the other side of the Rio Grande, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is steering the most restrictive shift in decades. This tension opens both an opportunity and a risk: either the border becomes a laboratory for equality and inclusion, or it remains a political

Mexico is already living its urban future. In 2024, 81.9% of the population resided in cities, a proportion on par with advanced economies and one that will continue to grow through 2050. This concentration of people changes everything: the scale of infrastructure, the demand for energy, the design of transportation, the management of water, and, above all, the productivity generated when talent, capital, and data converge in interconnected metropolitan ecosystems. Integrat

Mexico is living a pivotal industrial moment. The reshaping of global supply chains and integration with the United States and Canada are turning the country into the great production hub of the hemisphere. In 2024, Mexico consolidated its position as the U.S.’s top trade partner in goods, with total trade of $839.9 billion — $505.9 billion in U.S. imports from Mexico and $334 billion in U.S. exports to Mexico — surpassing both Canada and China. It is the clearest proof that

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