Camino del Mayab, a network of walking and cycling routes that links Maya villages, old haciendas, and cenotes south of Mérida, has been selected for the NaturaTech LAC 2026 recognition, an international program that backs green projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Yucatán’s tourism department, Sefotur, announced the news Friday. Two juries reviewed 397…
Three boats were seized at Alacranes Reef National Park after their passengers went ashore on Isla Pájaros, a tiny island that is off-limits to visitors because sea turtles and seabirds nest there. Profepa, Mexico’s federal environmental protection agency, announced the seizures Friday. The boats — the Gypsea, the Seamaster, and El Abuelo — were stopped…
Mexico is finding it increasingly expensive to borrow money, raising concerns about the country’s economic prospects as President Claudia Sheinbaum struggles to convince international investors that her government can control spending and stabilize public finances. The warning signs are coming from international bond markets, where investors are demanding unusually high returns to lend money to…
Mérida braced for a soaking Thursday. So far, Hurricane Isaías has delivered much less than many residents expected, and the reasons come down to the storm’s shape, size, and path. At 10 a.m., the U.S. National Hurricane Center placed Isaías about 270 km (170 miles) north of Progreso. Its maximum sustained winds had climbed to…
Hurricane Isaías will stay offshore, but Mérida and much of Yucatán are in for a wet, windy stretch that is expected to last into the weekend. Isaías became a hurricane at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mérida time, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Its maximum sustained winds were 120 km/h (75 mph). It is the…
The French horn started out as a hunting instrument, a descendant of ram and antelope horns. At the Palacio de la Música, it took the spotlight. Then it led the audience in a Mexican love song. Spanish hornist Juan José Pastor was the soloist for the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra’s third program of its fall season….
Progreso-born filmmaker Víctor Rejón Cruz has become the first person from Yucatán to win an Ariel, Mexico’s top film award, as a director, according to the state’s culture ministry. Rejón and co-director Irving Serrano won best short documentary Saturday for “Las voces del despeñadero.” The black-and-white film is a portrait of the cliff divers of…
The U.S. dollar climbed to about MX$18.25 in early trading Monday. That extends a three-week run that has left the Mexican peso at its weakest level in nearly a year. Monday’s gain was small, about half a percent. But it adds to a sharp reversal. In early September, the peso traded steadily below 17 per…
Same-sex marriages in Yucatán nearly tripled in 2025, climbing from 21 to 56 in a single year, according to new figures from Mexico’s national statistics agency. The 166% jump is the highest annual total in eight years of data compiled by Inegi, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, which released its 2025 marriage report…
The artificial lake at Parque La Plancha, one of the urban park’s main draws, is showing signs of neglect. During a recent visit, a reporter found the water murky and green. Leaves and other debris from nearby trees had piled up in several spots. Food wrappers and plastic containers floated on the surface, apparently tossed…
For about seven years, residents of Mérida’s colonia Jesús Carranza have watched abandoned houses on their streets turn into hideouts. Now they say the problem has gotten too big to ignore. Neighbors describe break-ins at homes and businesses, stolen wiring and fixtures, and physical attacks. They link much of it to a group of roughly…
Yucatán police made quick work of arresting four people within hours of Friday morning’s shooting of a man whom Quintana Roo authorities have called a criminal leader in Cancún. Yucatán’s Public Security Secretariat, known as the SSP, said the suspects were two men and two women. Investigators began tracking them as soon as the attack…
Costco is planning a second store in Yucatán, according to the state’s top economic official. Yucatán Secretary of Economy and Labor Ermilo Barrera Novelo said negotiations with the U.S. warehouse retailer are well underway. He said the state government is helping the company finalize the project in the near future. Neither Barrera Novelo nor Costco…
A man identified by Quintana Roo authorities as a drug-trade figure in Cancún was shot and wounded Friday morning outside a home in Montes de Amé, a residential subdivision in north Mérida. The attack happened around 11 a.m. on Calle 32 between 79 and 81. The man had stepped out of his house to get…
Yucatán now has the second-lowest birth rate in Mexico, and unlike the country as a whole, its rate is still falling. The state recorded 35.9 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 2025, according to INEGI, Mexico’s national statistics agency. Only Mexico City, at 31.1, was lower. The State of Mexico followed Yucatán at…
Yucatán lawmakers have removed a crime from the state penal code that activists say treated people living with HIV as suspects simply because of their diagnosis. The state Congress voted Wednesday unanimously to repeal Article 189, which defined the offense of peligro de contagio, or “danger of contagion.” The same measure updates Yucatán’s anti-discrimination law…
Mexico’s Navy and state-owned oil company Pemex put absorbent barriers in the water Tuesday to contain a hydrocarbon leak near the Ciénega de Progreso, the coastal wetland just south of Yucatán’s main port. The Navy said the leak appeared to come from deteriorating pipelines in the area. Specialists from its marine environmental protection unit at…
Skulls, black cats and pumpkins are creeping into shop windows across Mérida’s Centro Histórico. Fabric printed with Halloween and Day of the Dead designs hangs in some storefronts, and bakeries have started to advertise the season’s first pan de muerto. Fall has arrived in the Centro, at least on the shelves. Hanal Pixán, Yucatán’s version…
In the early morning hours, Progreso municipal police found 127 sea turtle hatchlings on the beach in Chelem. Because of their condition, officers gathered the tiny turtles and took them to a designated spot on the beach for a safe release. The rescue is one of many this season. As of Sept. 9, Progreso police…
About one in seven people living in Yucatán today was born somewhere else. At the same time, the share of residents who speak an Indigenous language keeps shrinking. Immigrants in Yucatán, including so-called expat communities, are still a tiny minority of the population. Those are two key findings from the 2025 Intercensal Survey, released Tuesday…
Chichén Itzá is bracing for its biggest crowds of the season. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), working with the Yucatán government’s Cultur trust, is rolling out a special operation this today and Monday to manage the throngs who show up each year to watch the shadow of a feathered serpent slither down…
Sixty-five works of contemporary Cuban and Latin American art have opened at the Museo de la Ciudad de Mérida, marking the first exhibition staged in the city by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, or MoCAA. The show, drawn from the Miami-based museum’s permanent collection, brings together oil paintings, photographs on paper, prints,…
One of Mérida’s most theatrical and rumored-about private homes is still looking for a buyer — and after three years, it’s asking a good deal less. Casa China, better known as La Casa de la 500, is the pagoda-roofed landmark on a corner lot along Avenida Líbano in Colonia México, and has been on the…
Federal authorities have opened a new window for Maya communities in Yucatán to weigh in on complaints that two real estate developers appropriated Mayan words commercially without permission. A notice published Sept. 18 in Yucatán’s official state gazette, printed in both Spanish and Mayan, gives people who identify with the Maya pueblo in Campeche, Quintana…
That’s all for now
That’s all for now