Mexico’s ‘Magical Towns’ aren’t benefiting many

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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