MONTHLY · IN ENGLISH · SINCE AUGUST 2026
Mexico's security data and its investment data, finally read together.
The states holding Mexico's export value are not the states where its freight is being stolen. Only two appear on both maps. CORRIDOR is the monthly brief that reads both layers at once — for the people deciding where to put a plant and how to route a shipment.
FROM THE LATEST ISSUE AND CHARTS
92,486
Persons registered as disappeared in Mexico since 2015 who remain not located — 34.3% of all registrations. Annual entries set a record in 2024 and stayed at that level in 2025.
RNPDNO/CNB via Escobar et al. 2026, Data in Brief
15×
Extortion files in the Centro Norte axis — Guanajuato, Querétaro, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes: the Bajío nearshoring corridor — rose from 78 in 2015 to 1,237 in 2026, January to July. Still +16.8% year-on-year.
CORRIDOR Conflict-Axis Monitor with SESNSP data, Sep 2026
37%
Share of Mexico's 60.8 million employed persons covered by the IMSS registry that set an August record of 22,798,473 posts. Labor informality stands at 56.2%.
IMSS bulletin 479/2026 · INEGI ENOE bulletin 570/26
Method
Why nobody else publishes this
The difference between this and an opinion newsletter is a plumbing detail: three official Mexican datasets share the INEGI municipal key, so they can be joined. Joining them produces a monthly risk map by industrial corridor. Since Issue No. 2, the same pipeline powers the Conflict-Axis Monitor — a quantitative read of extortion, cargo theft, homicide and business robbery across Mexico's eight territorial conflict axes.
Where two official series contradict each other, we publish the contradiction.
- Every figure carries its source and its date.
- Series are never mixed — federal-highway cargo theft and state-jurisdiction cargo theft are different universes, and are reported separately.
- Where two official sources contradict each other, the contradiction is published rather than resolved by picking one.
THE CORRIDOR CHART
A chart with an honest reading, several times a week.
FROM THE DATA
Issues
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Issue No. 4 · October 2026
Issue No. 4 · The pocket that was rebuilt
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Issue No. 3 · September 26, 2026
Issue No. 3 — Governability Pockets
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Issue No. 2 · September 14, 2026
Issue No. 2 — The Risk Outlook
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Issue No. 1 · September 2026 · Data through July 2026
Everything falls. Extortion doesn't.
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Issue No. 0 — Pilot · August 2026
Two truths about Mexico, one document
The brief
What you get
| Product | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free edition | 0 | One public piece per month. |
| Individual subscription | US$19/monthor US$190/year — two months free | The monthly brief plus the full archive. |
| CORRIDOR pilot | US$1,800 | Three monthly issues plus one presentation session to your board or committee. |
| Institutional licence | US$7,200 / yearUS$600/month equivalent · per organisation, not per seat | Twelve issues, distribution rights across your membership, two sessions per year, and the quarterly downloadable dataset. |
| Custom corridor report | US$3,500 | A deep analysis of one corridor, city or sector, delivered in three weeks. |
Invoiced in MXN or USD.
Pilot issue
Read the pilot issue
Eight pages, in English, built entirely from public official sources, with every figure attributed. No cost, no obligation.
Your address is used to send the brief. It is not shared or sold.
Author
Who writes it
Jorge A. Charles Coll holds a PhD cum laude in Economics from the Universitat de Barcelona and is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI, Level I), with seventeen peer-reviewed publications on inequality and growth in journals including Estudios Económicos (El Colegio de México), Economia Internazionale and RAUSP Management Journal.
Since 2014 he has founded and directed a citizen public-security observatory covering a metropolitan area of roughly 836,000 people, producing more than 190 monitoring reports across eleven years against a fixed indicator framework. He advises municipal development plans and works with a coalition of business chambers on economic analysis. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at HTW Berlin.
Organizations
Your members are already paying for this problem
Fifty-eight percent of AmCham member companies spend between 2% and 10% of their annual operating budget on security. Seventeen percent have reduced investment in Mexico for security reasons; twenty-one percent have suspended operations in specific states. Extortion is at an eleven-year high, and ninety-seven percent of it is never reported.
An institutional licence puts a monthly, sourced, corridor-level read of that exposure in front of your entire membership — at a price below the contract floor of the global risk consultancies, none of which publish one.