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.
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Mexico Will Not Answer for Salinas Pliego’s Debt: A Defeat for US Creditors
A World Bank tribunal unanimously tossed the US funds’ US$219M claim over TV Azteca’s bonds and ordered them to cover Mexico’s arbitration costs.
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Sheinbaum Reaffirms Invitation for Pope Leo XIV to Visit Mexico, in Meeting With Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Sheinbaum met Cardinal Parolin and tied her invitation to Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which she calls a global reference on who controls AI and where humanity is heading.
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Mexico Consolidates as the Second-Largest Exporter of AI Inputs, Behind Only China, According to the World Bank
The World Bank ranks Mexico second only to China in AI-input exports, even as adoption lags at home and a third of Mexicans are more worried than excited about it.
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Sheinbaum: “Media Apply the Formula ‘I Hit You So You Pay Me'”
López Portillo once told the media, ‘I don’t pay for you to hit me.’ With ad spending now a third of Peña-era levels, Sheinbaum says outlets have inverted the line.
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Movimiento del Sombrero Profits From Manzo’s Murder, His Brother Charges
Juan Manzo says the investigation into his brother’s killing has been sidelined by 2027 electoral interests, accusing the camp of Carlos’s widow, Mayor Grecia Quiroz, of withholding his phone.
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Sheinbaum Signs Decree to Make Government Information More Transparent and Accessible
The decree strips officials of discretion over classifying records, cuts the 173 reserve categories to two, and makes Pemex and CFE contracts public monthly.
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Mexico’s Education Secretary Warns Canal Once’s Archive Was Indeed Damaged. It’s Still Not Known How Much
After the two-month IPN takeover, Mexico’s education secretary found broken, scattered material in Canal Once’s 70-year archive; investigation files are now open.
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Homicides in Mexico Fell 16.6% in 2025, the Biggest Drop in the Last 12 Years
The 2025 toll of 27,989 was Mexico’s lowest since 2016, with 5,561 fewer killings than the year before and the rate down to 21.4 per 100,000.
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City of Health in San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca, Will Be an Example for the World, Says Sheinbaum
Sheinbaum broke ground on a new IMSS hospital in a three-institute health complex, contrasting its 530 beds with the 4,000 built in 36 neoliberal years.
