Poverty has increased in one of every three towns integrated to the Magical Towns program since 2012.
The brand has operated for 17 years and groups 121 communities, where 6 million people live.
The program was created with the intention of contributing to a rising quality of life, employment and promoting investment in diversified tourist locations in the interior of the country, based on historical and cultural attributes.
The federal government grants $5.2 million pesos annually to each locality included in the program and, by the middle of this year, it added an investment of $6 billion pesos.
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