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Citizen voting in the ballot box for president in Mexico City Ballots for voting in Mexico City. 1 July 2012.. General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, 1 July 2012. . Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing Felipe Calderón, 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 128 members of the Mexican Sen
The economy of Mexico is a developing mixed-market economy. [21] It is the 13th largest in the world in nominal GDP terms and by purchasing power parity as of 2024. [4] Since the 1994 crisis, administrations have improved the country's macroeconomic fundamentals.
September 8: 3 killed and 2 missing in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco due to flooding of La Culebra. [274] September 11: TheComité de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Committee) in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, says that state police killed eight civilians on September 5 and falsely claimed they were members of the Cártel del Noreste drug gang. [275]
[208] [209] [210] Mexico is the sixth-largest oil producer in the world, with 3.7 million barrels per day. [211] In 1980 oil exports accounted for 61.6% of total exports; by 2000 it was only 7.3%. [176] Mexico owns 7 oil refineries on its territory, with the newest one being built in 2022 [212] and another refinery within the United States. [213]
Ten national political parties were registered with the INE and were eligible to participate in federal elections: the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Labor Party (PT), the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), Citizens' Movement (MC), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Solidarity ...
Jalisco, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by six states, Nayarit , Zacatecas , Aguascalientes , Guanajuato , Michoacán , and Colima .
With a population of about 129 million in 2022, [5] Mexico is the 10th most populated country in the world.It is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world and the third-most populous country in the Americas after the United States and Brazil, [6] the most populous city in the country is the capital, Mexico City, with a population of 9.2 million and its metropolitan area is also the ...
Other sources suggest higher percentages: Encyclopædia Britannica estimates them at around 30% of the population, [85] [failed verification] field surveys that use the presence of blond hair as reference to classify a Mexican as white such as one by the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico calculated the percentage of said ethnic group ...