Mexico faces energy crisis without immediate investment in electricity

Mexico's energy future hangs in the balance as the clock ticks toward a possible collapse in 2030.

Publicado 15 mayo, 2025 el 15 de mayo a las 05:03 | 3 mins reading |3,430 vistas | por Carlos Méndez

A future in darkness: the battle for electric energy

In the shadows of tomorrow, Mexico teeters on the edge of an energy abyss. The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) has issued a warning that shakes the foundations of the nation: by 2030, the thirst for electricity in homes and companies will be an insatiable monster, devouring 13.4% more than today. Every second that passes without action is a step towards the precipice.

The countdown has started

The figures are alarming: 40,185 million dollars must be mobilized now or never under Plan Mexico. Pharaonic projects that require years of planning, financing and construction. But time, that implacable enemy, lurks. If 2025 passes without investments, the country will suffer an economic blackout of 48 thousand gigawatt-hours for the next decade. The factories of the future, the dreams of electromobility, all reduced to rubble by inaction.

The IMCO not only announces the storm, but draws the survival map: Secretaries of the Treasury and Economy must join the energy council, mixing voices as antidotes to institutional blindness. Every kilowatt generated in mixed projects must count as a victory for the CFE, that state bastion that fights to keep the lights on.

The price of indecision

124.5 billion pesos lie in budget limbo, destined for transmission towers that could be the last wall against chaos. Meanwhile, private investment—$28,877 million for generation, $6,516 million for transmission—waits behind closed doors, demanding clear rules as a tribute for its participation. “Without them, darkness will win,” says IMCO with the voice of a prophet.

This is not just a technical crisis: it is the final judgment for national competitiveness. Industries with high added value, those titans that promise prosperity, will look to other horizons if power outages become routine. The National Electrical System, that heart that pumps progress, could collapse, taking with it the fate of millions.

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Tamaulipas registers the lowest number of vehicle theft since 2015

In May 2026, reports of vehicle theft fell 77.84% compared to 2015.

Publicado 21 minutes ago el 4 de julio a las 21:30 | 2 mins reading

Historical reduction in Tamaulipas

The executive secretary of the State Public Security System, Willy Zúñiga Castillo, reported that Tamaulipas reached the lowest number of vehicle theft since October 2022 in May 2026. In addition, that month is the month with the lowest incidence of this crime since 2015.

According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, in May of this year 125 complaints were registered. In the same month of 2015 there were 564, which represents a decrease of 77.84%.

Zúñiga Castillo attributed the result to the coordinated work of the institutions that make up the Peace Roundtable in Tamaulipas, chaired daily by Governor Américo Villarreal Anaya. Prevention, surveillance, intelligence and crime fighting strategies were implemented.

“The reduction in vehicle theft is the result of the joint effort of the security forces, the strengthening of surveillance operations and the intelligence work that is constantly carried out in the state,” he expressed.

The official added that they will continue to reinforce actions to protect the assets of Tamaulipas families and maintain the downward trend in the incidence of crime. He highlighted the commitment of state and federal authorities to strengthen security and inter-institutional coordination.

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Judge orders investigation into leak of video of Gilda Lozoya’s arrest

Judge orders investigation of leak of images of Gilda Lozoya during her detention.

Publicado 51 minutes ago el 4 de julio a las 21:00 | 2 mins reading

Image leak sparks legal controversy

The control judge Nora Ileana García Peralta ordered the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to open an investigation folder for the dissemination of photographs and a video of the arrest of Gilda Lozoya Austin, sister of the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya. She was provisionally released on Friday.

Gilda Lozoya’s defense, headed by lawyer Alejandro Rojas Pruneda, presented a formal complaint to the judge. “Human rights were violated and my client was stigmatized with the exhibition of her image,” declared the litigant during the hearing.

The leaked material shows Gilda Lozoya in the custody of agents from the Navy and the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), handcuffed while an Interpol agent reads her rights. The arrest occurred upon arrival at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), from Amsterdam.

Rojas Pruneda also questioned the differential treatment: “Who makes these improper leaks? Defendants should not be presented to the media as guilty.” He mentioned, without naming him, the case of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, whose identity was protected after being deprived of his life in an operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, last February.

Measures to protect identity

Judge García Peralta ordered the FGR to investigate the leak as a possible crime. He also warned the media to “behave ethically” and avoid recording the hearings.

Gilda Lozoya faces accusations of operations with resources of illicit origin (money laundering) in the Agronitrogenados case, where her brother Emilio is also involved. After being released, she left in a van with tinted windows to avoid being caught by the press.

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Sheinbaum delivers scholarships to students in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán

Sheinbaum provides bank cards to Michoacan students as part of educational scholarships.

Publicado 4 hours ago el 4 de julio a las 17:44 | 2 mins reading

Tour through Pátzcuaro

President Claudia Sheinbaum visited the municipality of Pátzcuaro to deliver cards from the Banco del Bienestar. The plastics correspond to the “Rita Cetina” and “Gertrudis Bocanegra” scholarships, intended for students from Michoacán.

On her social networks, the president recalled that education is a fundamental right that promotes social equality.

“It makes it possible for the place where we are born not to determine the place we can reach,” he said.

He also stressed that access to classrooms should not be seen as a privilege, supporting the ideal of José María Morelos y Pavón: education should be the same for the son of a landowner as for that of a laborer.

Details of the Gertrudis Bocanegra program

The “Gertrudis Bocanegra” program is part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice. Provides financial support for transportation to all students enrolled in higher-level public institutions in the entity.

During the event, Sheinbaum gave the plastics to the students Valentina Leyva Fabián, Héctor Manuel Menchaca Rodríguez and Diana Elizabeth Orozco Arias.

Official accompaniment

Present at the event were the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla; the Secretary of Public Education, Mario Delgado Carrillo; the Secretary of Welfare, Leticia Ramírez Amaya; and the national coordinator of Scholarships for Wellbeing, Julio César León Trujillo.