In July 2026, the president of the commercial chamber of the High Court of Justice of Yucatán said that about 95 percent of the cases it hears involve pagarés, promissory notes. He added that this does not mean they all involve fraud. The note is one of the most common ways to formalize a debt between private persons and companies.
A pagaré can be enforced simply because it exists. In 2024, an opinion piece in Vanguardia noted that in more than 40 percent of the pagaré cases heard in the commercial courts of Coahuila, the debtor claims that the document was altered.