Yucatán Daily News

15/07/2026

After years of steady growth, both domestic and international flights saw a slight decline in June.

13/07/2026

The blockade closed both directions of Avenida 50, one of the main routes linking downtown Mérida with several outlying communities to the south.

Residents in a neighborhood of Xmatkuil, on Mérida’s southern edge, blocked a major road Sunday to protest four straight days without electricity, snarling traffic in and out of the area for hours. The blockade closed both directions of Calle 50 at its intersection with Calle 221 starting around ...

04/07/2026

Officials were also slow to admit that this even happened.

Tren Maya, the government-run railway operator, has confirmed that a power generator failure caused the delay that stranded passengers for hours on the Mérida–Cancún Airport route, arriving more than five hours behind schedule. The company acknowledged the incident two days after it occurred, is...

27/06/2026

Here are the names of the real estate agents charged with fraud in Seyé.

A couple in Yucatán has been sent to pretrial detention after prosecutors say they collected payments from multiple buyers for lots in a residential development that never existed. The Yucatán State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced that Noemí Evangelina Llanes Lizama (alias Noemi Evang...

18/06/2026

From YM: A well-intended tree planting program ends in a headache for the city.

Mérida's city government has a new headache after spending months planting trees along Circuito Colonias that now have to be dug up and moved.

26/05/2026

A federal court has sided with the groups that find it racist and want it gone.

A legal battle over a controversial conquistador statue on Mérida’s most famous boulevard has reached a new stage — and this time a federal court has sided with Maya and racialized communities who want it gone. Two human rights organizations, Kanan Derechos Humanos and RacismoMX, announced that...

25/05/2026

A makeshift solution to all these blackouts.

Mexico’s grid operator has signed a three-year deal with Turkish energy company Karpowership to deploy a floating power plant off the coast of Quintana Roo — a direct response to the chronic blackouts that have hammered the Peninsula in recent years. The agreement was finalized with federal and ...

25/05/2026

Remember that IMSS-Bienestar services are intended for people in financial need, the facilities are more basic than at private alternatives, and the wait times are long.

A gleaming new hospital has opened on the south side of Mérida, and social media is buzzing. Some foreign residents seem to believe that the new Hospital General “Dr. Agustín O’Horán” — inaugurated by President Claudia Sheinbaum in May as part of the IMSS-Bienestar rollout — means free,...

20/05/2026

More drama at Chichén Itza.

As if Chichén Itzá wasn’t already seeing too much excitement. Two foreign tourists were detained Tuesday after scaling El Castillo — the iconic pyramid at Chichén Itzá — amid a security breakdown at the site stemming from an ongoing dispute between local vendors and federal authorities. Th...

20/05/2026

Yet another power outage today, this time hitting the heart of Mérida's restaurant and hotel zones. Here's the latest, plus a rundown of recent blackouts.

Mérida’s most iconic boulevard, and its adjacent restaurant row, went dark before dawn Wednesday as a power failure knocked out electricity to Paseo de Montejo and surrounding neighborhoods starting around 4 a.m. The outage — affecting the city’s principal hotel, restaurant, and tourism corri...