In INEGI’s 2024 National Survey of Financial Inclusion, 22.9 percent of the population had some form of insurance. The share was 1.9 points lower than in 2015.
For cars, Grupo Animal reported the estimate of AMIS, the insurance industry association, that only about 30 percent of the vehicles on Mexico’s roads have a policy.
In 2021, Caja Popular Mexicana marked 70 years of savings and loan cooperatives, cooperativas de ahorro y préstamo, in Mexico. It traces this tradition to 1951 and to two priests, Manuel and Pedro Velázquez Hernández. (Video in Spanish.)
Its bulletin for the anniversary counted more than 8.5 million people who use the savings and credit services of the cooperative sector. About 3,033,000 of them were members of Caja Popular Mexicana.
INEGI’s 2024 National Survey of Financial Inclusion asked how people would cover their expenses in old age. 68.2 percent named government support, and 67.3 percent said they would keep working.
In the same survey, 43.8 percent named dinero de familiares, money from relatives. In 2021 the share had been 49.7 percent. INEGI gives these two figures in a chart, not in the text of its report.
On December 6, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies rejected President López Obrador’s constitutional reform of the electoral system. It received 269 votes in favor and 225 against, short of the two-thirds majority it needed. The government had announced a day earlier that it would send a “Plan B,” changes to several secondary laws of the electoral system, and it reached the Chamber that same day. (Video in Spanish.)
In May 2023, the Supreme Court invalidated the first part of Plan B. López Obrador then announced a “Plan C.” According to Expansión, it consisted of asking voters to vote for the next president and for a qualified majority in Congress.
On March 11, 2026, the Chamber of Deputies rejected President Claudia Sheinbaum’s constitutional electoral reform. Before the vote, Ricardo Monreal, the leader of Morena’s deputies, announced: “comenzaremos a construir el plan B de la reforma electoral” (we will begin to build Plan B of the electoral reform).
In April 2020, INEGI asked Mexican companies how they were responding to COVID-19. 60.2 percent had already taken operational actions. Home delivery was the most common, used by 45.0 percent of companies. Other actions included special promotions, with 33.8 percent, work from home, with 32.6 percent, and internet sales, with 29.6 percent.
In April 2020, the Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City became a temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients. On April 22, as quoted by Chilango, the head of government Claudia Sheinbaum wrote that it had been built in 21 days, with 234 beds with oxygen. (Video in Spanish.)
According to Chilango, 16 foundations and companies donated the unit to the city’s health ministry. Expansión reported that only 234 beds were installed in the first stage. According to Chilango, the plan called for 854 hospital beds and 36 intermediate care spaces.
Guillermo del Toro put his own money into his feature debut, Cronos. At the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, as reported by Popverse, he said: “I mortgaged my house.” He added that he had sold his car, that he lost a quarter of a million dollars of his own money, and that he “never made the money back.”
Alfonso Cuarón did not give the actors of Roma (2018) the script. “Todos sabían que había un guion pero nadie, ni los actores, ni staff, lo vio” (Everyone knew there was a script, but nobody saw it, not the actors, not the staff), he told Time Out México. He shot the film in chronological order. (Video in Spanish.)
A February 2019 report on the film said that each morning, during the 108 days of shooting, Cuarón gave lines to some actors and instructions that contradicted those lines to others.
Aventarse literally means to throw oneself with force. The Diccionario del español de México gives it a popular sense: “Atreverse o decidirse a hacer alguna cosa” (to dare or to decide to do something).
Its example: “¿Qué dices si nos aventamos y nos casamos de una buena vez?” (What do you say, shall we dare and get married once and for all?) Entrarle a algo means to take part in an activity, as in “Hay que entrarle a los tacos.”
Haciendo y deshaciendo se va aprendiendo, “by doing and undoing, one learns.” A lesson of the SEP, Mexico’s education ministry, for the first year of secondary school carries the saying as its title. It says: “es necesario crear experiencias que te hagan aprender de los errores” (it is necessary to create experiences that make one learn from mistakes).
At the end of May 2020, Mexico ended the Jornada Nacional de Sana Distancia, the national healthy distance campaign against COVID-19. From June 1, activities were to reopen in stages, guided by a semáforo epidemiológico, an epidemiological traffic light based on daily levels of hospital occupancy. (Video in Spanish.)
Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary for health prevention and promotion, warned: “No piense la ciudadanía que el 1 de junio volvemos a la normalidad” (Citizens should not think that on June 1 we return to normal). The sources differ on the last day of the campaign. Excélsior gives May 30, and El Financiero gives May 31.