Editorial note: Over 2 million people in 178 countries read MND every month, making us the #1 English-language news source on Mexico. Add in our Youtube channel and social media channels and we had over 10 million visitors in the first quarter of this year. That’s a genuinely large community paying attention to how this story gets told. A meaningful number of them have already decided that $89.99 a year is a fair trade for ad-free, independent coverage of Mexico — and they’re the reason our team of nearly 75 people still have jobs reporting on this country every week. That includes dedicated local reporters covering on-the-ground news and events in Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, and San Miguel de Allende (with more cities coming soon). Here’s a small example: our writer Maria Melendez on why President Sheinbaum flies coach on almost every flight, even internationally — the kind of quiet, human story that doesn’t run anywhere else, because it doesn’t get clicks the way outrage does. It gets funded by people who’d rather pay for substance.
Travis Bembenek, CEO
The videos of President Sheinbaum boarding a commercial flight are good storytelling. The problem is that good storytelling and good governance are not the same thing, and confusing the two…
