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

Tourism growth can create jobs and investment, but it also exposes failures in water, mobility, sanitation, and public safety. The municipal challenge is to turn temporary pressure into permanent infrastructure for residents. A city may celebrate record hotel occupancy while its residents face congested streets, irregular waste collection, low water pressure, and overloaded emergency services. This contradiction is common in tourism destinations: the visitor economy expands w

Municipal digital transformation is not about moving forms online. It is about eliminating unnecessary burdens, connecting departments, and proving that government can deliver through faster, clearer, and verifiable processes. In many municipalities, the relationship between residents and government still begins with a line. It continues with photocopies, stamps, documents already held by another office, and repeated visits whose outcome depends on restricted hours, individua

Public safety is often discussed as if it were a distant responsibility: the federal government’s, the armed forces’, prosecutors’, or state police departments’. But for citizens going to work, waiting for public transportation, opening a business, crossing a plaza, or letting children walk to school, safety is not measured in national speeches. It is measured in the municipality. That is the first mistake many local governments make: assuming violence is too large to be addr

The water crisis is no longer a problem of pipes alone: it now defines which municipalities can attract investment, organize housing, protect public health and remain viable. Water Has Entered the Municipal Balance Sheet A municipality can inaugurate streets, announce investment, approve new subdivisions and boast about urban growth. But if it cannot guarantee water, every other promise becomes fragile. The water crisis is no longer a technical matter hidden inside local util

Mexico talks about the 2026 World Cup as a sports celebration. Municipalities should see it as something more demanding: a test of institutional capacity. The tournament will not only test whether the country can host matches. It will test whether its cities can operate under pressure. A World Cup does not happen only inside a stadium. It happens in streets, airports, avenues, hotels, restaurants, historic districts, transit systems, police operations, cleaning services and p