Mexico 2060 future scenarios and the Mosaic Republic, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): A meeting on Mexico 2060 brought together specialists from the IEF (Institute for Future Studies) to discuss an unsettling scenario: that the country could keep its institutions and borders but lose the ability to govern its entire territory effectively. This image was called the Mosaic Republic, a fragmented Mexico in which public, economic and criminal powers compete to influence decisions and community life.
The central question was how to prevent that future. The answer was not limited to calling for a stronger government.
Participants discussed building lasting institutional agreements, strengthening coordination among the federation, states and municipalities, guaranteeing justice and security, and ensuring that public policies reach people. Effective governance, it was argued, requires reliable institutions, responsible authorities and a citizenry able to participate.
The meeting also warned decision-makers that politics should not look only at the next electoral process. Foresight helps identify trends, anticipate risks and discuss options before problems become crises.
For this reason, participants said it is important for politicians to engage with these exercises and for legislatures to incorporate such analyses into legislative deliberation.
Long-term planning, it was suggested, would make it possible to work toward a national project that, without demanding unanimity, brings together broad agreements on Mexico’s direction. Urgent topics included climate change, water and food sovereignty.
Discussion also covered changes in capitalism and the growing power of large technology platforms. Artificial intelligence can help improve services, analyze information and expand government capacities, but it can also concentrate wealth, data and control in a few companies.
So-called technofeudal powers raise a public question: who controls technology, and under what rules?
To answer it, Mexico needs to develop its own capacities, train its population and establish regulatory frameworks that protect the common interest.
The conversation extended beyond the economy and institutions. Participants called for a spiritual regeneration, understood as a renewal of values, bonds and a sense of shared responsibility.
This reflection was linked to education and to the need to listen to young people, address their opportunities and encourage their participation, including outside partisan politics.
The importance of recognizing and supporting older people was also highlighted, along with a better distribution of care responsibilities among families, communities and the state. Another horizon that should be part of any national project is migrant Mexico in North America.
Its families, work, contributions and ties to the country cannot be left out of the conversation about Mexico’s future.
The event was made possible through support from the Gilberto Bosques Saldívar Institute of Legislative, Financial and Socioeconomic Research of the Honorable Congress of the State of Puebla. Recognition went to its director, Óscar Emilio Carranza León, and to the staff and institutions of the local legislature, as well as the social service program of the BUAP, which collaborated to make the meeting possible.
The meeting did not aim to close the debate. Instead, it proposed continuing with a shared diagnosis, identifying trends and developing scenarios and decisions grounded in information.
Holding such meetings is essential, participants said, because they bring academia and public experience together, test ideas and carry them into the spaces where laws are made and governments operate.
The Mosaic Republic is not a predetermined destiny. Avoiding it will depend on agreements, actions and decisions made from now on.
