In
Chihuahua, Mennonites continue their lifestyle with several reforms, such as the use of automobiles. They coexist, learning
Spanish, and
English, alongside their
Plautdietsch language, living side by side with the
castizos in the hill country of the state. During the harvest season they employ a considerable number of
Tarahumara people from the nearby
Copper Canyon area. About 50,000 Mennonites reside near the city of
Cuauhtémoc in Chihuahua. In
Durango, there are 32 Mennonite communities (30 in
Nuevo Ideal Municipality and 2 in
Santiago Papasquiaro Municipality). Mennonites in Durango number reached a top of 8,000 in 2011, now they are 6,500; most of them live in
Nuevo Ideal. Nuevo Ideal's lies around north of
the city of Durango. Once in Nuevo Ideal, it becomes central transit point where the main roads that communicate Northwest and Northeast Durango separate (the road going northwest to
Santa Catarina de Tepehuanes is paved while the one going to Escobedo, Durango towards the northeast, is a dirt road). Mennonites benefit from this transit point since many travelers and truck drivers stop in Nuevo Ideal in search of Menonita Cheese. . The largest denomination as of 2006 is
Old Colony Mennonite Church with 17,200 members,
Kleingemeinde in Mexiko has 2,150 members,
Sommerfelder Mennonitengemeinde has 2,043 members,
Reinländer-Gemeinde has 1,350 members, and
Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference has 97 members , Chihuahua. The community of Chihuahua separates themselves into "conservative" and "liberal", with the liberal faction accounting for 20% of the population. This group is more open to outsiders and as such, more likely to marry outside of the community than their conservative peers. Some Mennonites were, in fact, convicted of drug running in the 1990s. There have been fresh accusations more recently. In 2014, Abraham Friesen-Remple was one of six members of the Northern Mexico's Mennonite community who were indicted and accused of smuggling
marijuana in the gas tanks of cars and inside farm equipment. During 2007, the colony of Salamanca (a Mennonite settlement with a population of 800 spread over in the state of
Quintana Roo) was completely destroyed due to the landfall of
Hurricane Dean. As of 2008, Salamanca had a population of 862. A number of congregations of
Conservative Mennonites have been established throughout Mexico including La Esperanza and Pedernales in
Chihuahua, La Honda,
Zacatecas, and more recently
Oaxaca. In addition to escalating drug-related violence and worsening poverty in Mexico, Mennonites living in Chihuahua and Durango have had to contend with extended periods of droughts as well as tensions with non-Mennonite farmers over access to water. The combination of these factors has provoked significant numbers of Mennonites in the region to emigrate abroad, especially to Canada and South America, in recent years. From 2012 to 2017 alone, it is estimated that 30,000 Mexican Mennonites relocated to Canada. A 2020 survey found that there are more than 200 Mennonite colonies in nine Latin American countries, with 66 in Mexico. Mennonite Family - Campeche - Mexico - 01.jpg|Mennonite family from Campeche. Mennonites campeche.jpg|Mennonites in
Hopelchén, Campeche. Menonitas en Quintana Roo.jpg|Mennonites from
Bacalar,
Quintana Roo. Little peddler boy, Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico.jpg|Mennonite peddler boy selling bread in Bacalar, Quintana Roo. Niñas Menonitas de Bacalar, Quintana Roo.jpg|Mennonite children from Bacalar, Quintana Roo. ==Film==