Mexico Says No Evidence, Not Investigating US President Trump’s Accusations Against Venezuelan President Maduro
This article by Alonso Urrutia and Arturo Sánchez originally appeared in the August 8, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. In response to the U.S. government’s announcement that it will increase the international reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for his alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, President Claudia Sheinbaum maintained that there is no news of this alleged connection in Mexico, nor is there any investigation into it.
When questioned on this issue, Sheinbaum completely ruled out Mexico having any information about these ties. “If they have any evidence, they can present it, but we don’t have any evidence related to those ties.”
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People’s Mañanera January 19
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with the ever-frequent reading of the polls, raising revenue without raising taxes, Salinas Pliego tax debt comes due, US Hercules plane landing in Mexico, and Mexican dying in ICE custody.
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Our Water, In Whose Hands?
A promising vision from President Sheinbaum for public water management rapidly disappeared. Yet again the Mexican state openly assumes the role it has always played under neoliberalism: facilitating access to natural resources for special interests.
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38 Billion Pesos Withdrawn from AFORE Accounts Due to Unemployment
The large number of Mexicans withdrawing from their pensions to survive unemployment indicates an urgent necessity to establish national unemployment insurance.
