Sheinbaum Doubles the Education Goal: Announces 400,000 New Public High School Places
Only months after setting a 200,000 target in April, Sheinbaum doubled it from a newly inaugurated campus in Texcoco.
News Briefs
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Ríos Farjat, With a Lifetime Pension, Joins Firm That Has Litigated Against Mexico
She left the Supreme Court rather than stand for election under the reform that swept out Mexico’s old judiciary; six months later, Ríos Farjat is a partner at Holland & Knight, a US firm that has litigated against the Mexican State.
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Use of ‘Fracking’ to Obtain Gas Is Still Being Investigated; Energy Sovereignty Is Being Sought, Sheinbaum Says
Sheinbaum casts unconventional gas as national security, but says no decision has been made yet. Texas already supplies 60 percent of Mexico’s gas through fracking.
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Mexico Became the World’s Largest Beer Exporter in 2025
Beer exports hit US$6.48 billion across 98 countries, 36% of global value, with the US alone buying US$6.046 billion.
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Faster Justice and Prevention, Key Points to Combat Property Dispossession in Mexico City
Mexico City promises restitution in 15 days and prosecution in 30, a 20-judge unit, and a new Property Defense Office, amid 1,846 open dispossession cases.
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Mexico’s Labor Secretariat Confirms US Company Newmont Violated Workers’ Rights at the Peñasquito Gold Mine
The miners’ union’s fifth USMCA rapid-response case forces Newmont into a neutrality letter and a binational remediation plan after three leaders were fired.
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Mexico and Peru Restore Diplomatic Relations
Peru granted safe conduct to former PM Betssy Chávez, who sheltered in Mexico’s embassy; Sheinbaum vowed to keep defending ousted President Pedro Castillo.
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Experts Rule Out ‘Fracking’ in Mexico’s Tampico-Misantla; Water-Well Drilling to Assess Two Basins Will Begin
A science panel urged banning unconventional gas in the Tampico-Misantla basin; two others stay under study only if deep saltwater, not fresh, is found.
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Mexico Requests to Meet with US Agriculture Authorities to Resume Avocado Exports
US inspectors were pulled from Michoacán over threats; Sheinbaum is sending more National Guard and pitching a work plan to restart avocado exports.
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Ex-Governor of Guerrero Ángel Aguirre Arrested; Accused of Hiding Evidence on the 43 of Ayotzinapa
Aguirre governed Guerrero when the 43 vanished in Iguala in 2014; he is the first former governor detained in the case under the FGR’s new probe.
