Mexico has the reputation of having big families. In reality the Mexican birth rate has been dropping for decades.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 24th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Birth Rates, Demographics
PISA is an acronym for Programme for International Student Assessment, a test battery administered internationally every three years by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), a 38-nation group of which both Mexico and the United States are member states.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 21st, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: China, Finland, OECD, PISA test battery, Singapore
Another Mexican has been arrested in Nigeria for drug-related activity.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 19th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Africa, Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine Production, Nigeria
On the night of September 15th, 2026, the annual Independence Day Grito ceremony was held in the Mexico City Zocalo plaza. (See Mexican Independence Day and the History Behind It). Over 300,000 people were in the Zocalo.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 17th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Claudia Sheinbaum, Jesús María Tarriba, Mexican Independence Day, Mexican Military, Mexico City, Zocalo
Every nation needs symbols, traditions and celebrations, to affirm its identity and pass its traditions to the next generation. That’s why national holidays are important. Mexican Independence Day is the most popular Mexican patriotic holiday.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 13th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Agustin de Iturbide, Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato state, Jose Morelos, Mexican History, Mexican Independence Day, Mexican Independence War (1810-1821), Mexico City, Miguel Hidalgo, Napoleon, Spain, Spanish Empire, Vicente Guerrero, Zocalo
LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It uses laser pulses fired from aircraft that bounce off the ground and back to the aircraft, revealing the relief of the ground area being studied. Previous Mexico News Report articles have reported how LiDAR was used in the discovery of a lost Maya city in Campeche state (Valeriana) and in the discovery that the Zapotec fortress of Guiengola was much larger than previously thought.
Another archaeological discovery made with LiDAR is the Mayan city of Minanbé, like Valeriana, also in the state of Campeche.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 11th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Archaeology, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche state, Ivan Šprajc, Lidar technology, Maya Culture, Minanbe, Slovenia
The automatic birthright citizenship policy of the United States, recently re-affirmed by the Supreme Court, is well-known throughout the world.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 8th, 2026, on Border Hawk News.
Tags: Australia, Automatic Birthright Citizenship, Canada, Citizenship, Clarence Thomas, Donald Trump, John Roberts, Mexican Constitution, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, Supreme Court, United Kingdom, Western Hemisphere
In this post I share some Mexico-related Odyssey memes.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 8th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Guatemala, Tacos, The Border, The Odyssey Movie
On September 1st, 2026, the Mexican Congress convened its latest legislative session. Senator Inzunza has shown up for the legislative term.
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Article by Allan Wall, published September 3rd, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Enrique Inzunza Cazarez, Federal Judiciary, Mexican Congress, Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexican Senate