Javier Aguirre coached Mexico’s national football team from 2001 to 2002 and again from 2009 to 2010. Both times, Mexico went out of the World Cup in the round of 16.
In 2024, he was named coach of the national team for a third time, replacing Jaime Lozano. (Video in Spanish.)
UNAM’s General Regulation of Examinations gives students a second route to pass a subject. Article 14 opens exámenes extraordinarios, extraordinary exams, to students who “no hayan acreditado las materias correspondientes” (have not passed the corresponding subjects). Article 16 says: “Los estudiantes tendrán derecho a presentar hasta dos materias por semestre mediante exámenes extraordinarios” (Students shall have the right to take up to two subjects per semester through extraordinary exams).
At the 93rd anniversary show of the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, at Arena México in September 2026, Místico defeated Averno in a bet match, a lucha de apuesta. Averno lost his hair and was shaved in the center of the ring.
Afterwards, according to Excélsior, Averno said: “Es una batalla, no la guerra” (It is a battle, not the war).
In 2023, Expansión described a group of 20 women in Santa Cruz, Etla, in Oaxaca. Together they hold one loan of about 400,000 pesos from Compartamos Banco, which they divide among themselves. The group commits to weekly payments, “y si alguien se atrasa: todos pagan esa deuda” (and if someone falls behind, everyone pays that debt). (Video in Spanish.)
Gentera, the parent company of Compartamos Banco, says it offers loans that are “principalmente grupales” (mainly group loans). In its 2022 annual report, its product Crédito Mujer had 1,749,106 clients in Mexico, about two thirds of Gentera’s clients there.
Sobre la marcha, “on the march.” The Diccionario del español de México of El Colegio de México defines it as “al mismo tiempo que se avanza, a medida que se hace algo” (at the same time as one moves forward, as something is being done). Its example: “Resolver las dudas sobre la marcha” (to resolve doubts on the way).
Áhi se va, “there it goes.” The dictionary marks it as popular and explains it as “ya, así, como esté” (now, like that, as it is). People hacen algo al áhi se va, do something the there-it-goes way. Another example: “Entrégalo, áhi se va” (Hand it in, there it goes).
In 2021, INEGI and the banking regulator CNBV carried out the National Survey of Financial Inclusion (ENIF). According to a summary of the survey by BBVA Research, 40.0 percent of adults aged 18 to 70 who reported an economic impact from COVID-19 borrowed from relatives or acquaintances.
In the same survey, 32.7 percent of all adults aged 18 to 70 had at least one formal loan, according to INEGI.
On July 5, 2026, England beat Mexico 3-2 in the round of 16 of the World Cup, at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
Afterward, coach Javier Aguirre said that any criticism should go to the coach, because the players had given everything on the field. He praised the many players “que jugaron con el corazón” (who played with heart). Then he said goodbye to the national team and to the Estadio Azteca. (Video in Spanish.)
In 1975, the anthropologist Larissa Adler de Lomnitz described the Cerrada del Cóndor, a shantytown in Mexico City, in the journal Demografía y Economía. Of about 180 households, “solamente diez unidades residenciales estaban desligadas de sus vecinos” (only ten households were cut off from their neighbors). The others formed 45 networks of reciprocal exchange, averaging four or five families.
“Las redes están formadas en su mayoría por parientes cercanos, pero también incluyen a vecinos no emparentados” (The networks are formed mostly of close relatives, but they also include unrelated neighbors). When a man loses his work, “su familia recibe alojamiento y es mantenida mientras se le encuentra empleo” (his family receives lodging and is supported while a job is found for him).
In September 2021, IDC Online reported the Mexican results of “Los Escuchados y los No Escuchados” (The Heard and the Unheard), a survey in 11 countries by the Workforce Institute of UKG and Workplace Intelligence.
“El 56% puntualiza en que es más probable que le diga a su jefe lo que quiere oír” (56 percent say that they are more likely to tell their boss what the boss wants to hear).
“El 31% prefiere no hablar para evitar ‘una política interna tóxica'” (31 percent prefer not to speak, to avoid “toxic internal politics”). At the same time, “el 92% de los mexicanos aseguró sentir que sus jefes escuchan sus inquietudes, pero no accionan” (92 percent of Mexicans said that they feel their bosses listen to their concerns but do not act).
The article does not say how many workers were surveyed in Mexico.
Fíjate que…, or with usted, fíjese que…, means “notice that…” In 2023, the UNAM linguist Josaphat Enrique Guillén Escamilla published a study of mira and fíjate in the educated speech of Mexico City, in the Anuario de Letras. When the markers open a reply, he wrote, they can announce “una justificación, pero también una respuesta despreferida” (a justification, but also an unwelcome answer).
One example from his corpus begins: “Fíjate que oportunidades he tenido” (Notice that I have had chances). The speaker goes on: “únicamente que por cuestiones de trabajo no… lo he podido hacer” (only that, for work reasons, I have not been able to do it).