NEWS BRIEFS
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Constitutional Reforms Strengthen the Defense of Mexican Sovereignty, Sheinbaum Says
Elections swayed by foreign interference can now be annulled, and Sheinbaum likened those seeking outside backing to the conservatives who brought Maximilian.
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At the End of the Six-Year Term There Will Be 350,000 New Places for Undergraduate Studies, Sheinbaum Says
The plan includes new high schools and technological institutes, converting middle schools without afternoon shifts, and more Rosario Castellanos campuses.
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Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Communities “Lead the Way” in Analysis for the General Law on Peoples, Sheinbaum Says
The bill was meant to reach Congress on October 12, but consultations are still underway, and it will not be sent until the communities say it is ready.
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US and Mexican Navy Seize More Than 1,200 Kilos of Cocaine off Oaxaca’s Coast; 6 Detained
The boat was intercepted 366 nautical miles south of Huatulco, a hit estimated at 289 million pesos to criminal groups and 2.5 million doses kept off the streets.
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Thousands Demand Clean Water in Jalisco and Lemus Uses It to Repress Them
In Jalisco, governed by the opposition party Movimiento Ciudadano, police met the march with water cannons and tear gas, and protesters reported arrests and two people disappeared.
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Hurricane Simon Paralyzes Towns and Highways in Jalisco Amid Forecast That It Will Make Landfall
With an erratic path, the Category 4 storm keeps the coast shut in under nonstop rain, though no casualties have been reported so far.
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The Morena, PT, and PVEM Coalition Is Necessary to Stop the Right, Anaya Says
PT leader Alberto Anaya says there has never been a problem with Sheinbaum, while PAN’s Jorge Romero confirms an alliance with the PRI in Chihuahua.
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Defense of Sovereignty “Is Not Rhetoric, It’s Principles,” Sheinbaum Says
Sheinbaum recalled foreign pressure on Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries and blamed the neoliberal governments and Calderón for opening the door to U.S. influence.
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Sheinbaum Presents Draft Decree to Force Digital Platforms to Take Down Content That Incites Violence and Hate
No fines for now: the government will talk with tech companies before publishing the decree next week, a promise made after the Coahuila school attack.
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Mexico’s Gas Reserves Would Last Only 3 Days
Cenagas director Cuitláhuac García revealed Mexico has no gas storage and imports 75% of what it consumes, after a US supply cut exposed the risk.
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Sheinbaum Calls “Absurd” the PT’s Claim of U.S. Pressure in Morena
Labor Party leader Alberto Anaya suggested Washington shaped Morena’s picks for 2027; Sheinbaum said the polls decided, and disappointment fuels such theories.
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Confidence in Mexico Secures US Investment, Sheinbaum Says After Meeting With Business Leaders and Ambassador Johnson
The executives, who came with Ambassador Ronald Johnson, pressed for a quick USMCA deal, while new pharma, energy and farm investments are on the way.
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Mexicana Expects to Reach Profitability Starting in 2030
Mexico’s state airline plans to double its fleet to 20 planes by 2027, after boosting seat capacity 83 percent this year and carrying over 1.27 million passengers.
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Work at Mexico’s Security Secretariat Does Not Allow a Parallel Agenda for 2030, García Harfuch Says
Sheinbaum’s security chief, seen as a leading 2030 presidential contender, said it would be disrespectful to victims to think about anything but his job.
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Mexican Government Plans Investment of 1.168 Trillion Pesos in Electricity and Gas Pipelines
Most of the money goes to generation, plus 140 billion pesos for gas pipelines, since power plants burn about 60% of the country’s natural gas.
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Mexico Asks Mónica Palencia for Neutrality Upon Assuming the Presidency of the OAS Council
The new OAS Council president, born in Durango, was Noboa’s interior minister when Ecuadorian police stormed Mexico’s embassy in Quito in 2024.
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Sheinbaum Signs Decree: Candidates for the Presidency and Governorships Must Be Only Mexican
Dual nationals will have to renounce their other citizenship before registering, starting with the 2028 election.
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Sheinbaum: Official Documents Show the Interventionist Character of U.S. Agencies
Asked about López Obrador’s broadside against Ambassador Johnson, she pointed to the agencies’ own Tlatelolco files but said she must also safeguard diplomacy.
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Mexico’s State Workers’ Social Security Institute Launches 100 Clinics for the Universal Health Service
Open in nine states, they are the first of 500 the ISSSTE will add to a network of 12,750 clinics serving anyone, insured or not, from January 2027.
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Sheinbaum Calls on the Bank of Mexico to Review High Pensions of Its Former Officials
Former governor Guillermo Ortiz and ex-president Ernesto Zedillo are among those collecting pensions of up to 400,000 pesos, above the President’s own salary.
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73,000 Doctors Have Applied for Mexico’s Primary Health Care Clinics Initiative
The clinics will offer free care and 60 basic medicines starting in January, while home visits have already detected more than 568,000 hypertension patients.
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US Ambassador Johnson Acts Like a Meddling Policeman, AMLO Says
In his new book Pueblo, López Obrador calls the revoking of his son’s visa “villainous” and accuses U.S. agencies of fabricating cases with phony evidence.
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Ambassador of Palestine Asks Mexico to Review Companies Linked to Israeli Settlements
The UN has identified 214 companies tied to Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory, among them the Mexican conglomerate Orbia.
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Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally
After 800 layoffs and a rejected wage offer, the independent union at VW’s Puebla plant, the largest outside Germany, reached a tentative 13.16% deal.
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Mexico Is a Leader in the Fight Against Hunger, United Nations Praises
WFP chief Carl Skau singled out Mexico’s school meals, front-of-package labeling and local purchasing, models already being shared with Colombia and Peru.
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Historic 36% Reduction in Daily Incidence of Femicides in Mexico, Reports the Secretariat of Women
The 079 option 1 Women’s Line has taken 20,000 calls in just over a year and detected femicidal violence in a third of them.
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Mauricio Kuri, Governor of Querétaro, Did Not Notify the Secretariat of Foreign Relations of Inviting the US Ambassador to a Ceremony, Sheinbaum Says
States can receive training and equipment from abroad, Sheinbaum said, but it all has to go through the federal government, and this ceremony skipped it.
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US Seized a Ship with Crude Oil That Was Headed to Cuba and Sent It to Mexico
The Coast Guard boarded the Grace in the Caribbean in early September and had Mexico’s Navy inspect it in Progreso, but only announced it a month later.
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AMLO Authorizes “Only Morena” to Use His Words and Image, and Calls to Support Sheinbaum
In the closing chapter of his new book Pueblo, written from retirement in Palenque, López Obrador also warns Morena hopefuls against nepotism and ambition.
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Three Former Presidents of the Mexican Republic in the National Conversation
AMLO “is in the heart of the people,” Sheinbaum said, while Calderón and Fox joined the international right to campaign against her government.
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CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico’s ’68 Massacre
Declassified records show the agency bankrolled a far-right student shock group for decades and trained future spy chief Nazar Haro, while key 1968 files stay censored.
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“Never Again” a Massacre Like the One at Tlatelolco, Sheinbaum Says; Underscores Díaz Ordaz’s Responsibility
On the 58th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre, the president recalled the official decree recognizing state responsibility and sent solidarity to survivors.
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US Maneuvers for Cerimedo’s Release. “It Uses Visas for a Coup,” Former Presidents Say
Bolivia’s attorney general was arrested two days after Washington pulled his visa, just as his office was widening its probes into the MAGA-linked consultant.
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AMLO Warns of the Rise of Neofascism: “It’s Not the Right, nor the Far Right”
Returning in a video from his La Chingada ranch, he presented his new book, Pueblo, dedicated to Sheinbaum, whom he called the world’s best President.
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Sheinbaum Mocks Calderón: “It Would Be a Gem for Him to Talk About Democracy”
She suggested he explain his security chief García Luna, now serving 38 years in a US prison, and why homicides doubled during his term.
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Nadia Beller Reveals Photos of Cerimedo With Trump’s Son
Cerimedo awaits trial for the attempted femicide of his ex-partner while Beller ties him to an undisclosed CIA contact, the Mossad, the IMF, and a Trump-world dirty-campaign network.
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Clara Luz Flores Returns to the Forefront of Morena in Nuevo León: Career and the NXIVM Case
Her return to Nuevo León’s political spotlight has revived scrutiny over internal NXIVM records that list her among the group’s coaches.
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US Revokes Visa of Bolivia’s Attorney General for Investigating Cerimedo
Mariaca vowed to keep investigating Cerimedo, a Trump-aligned disinformation operative accused of trying to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
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Mexican Senate Approves, with a Qualified Majority, Reform on Dual Nationality for Candidates
The reform requires presidential, gubernatorial, and Mexico City candidates to hold Mexican nationality exclusively, renouncing any other passport before running.
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Maru Campos Urged Mexico’s Supreme Court to Uphold Chihuahua’s Electoral Reform
Campos calls it an anti-narco shield, but Morena warns the PAN measure could sanction rivals on suspicion alone, without evidence or due process.
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Hurricane ‘Polo’ Leaves No Fatalities in Baja California Sur; to Hit Guaymas, Sonora This Morning
Civil Protection says 6,700 evacuees are returning home as nearly 6,900 federal, state, and military personnel respond across the Baja California peninsula and Sonora.
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Vasconcelos’ Team Clarifies That Ambassador Was Not Present During Netanyahu’s Speech
The team of Héctor Vasconcelos, Mexico’s permanent representative to the UN, clarified that he was not in the General Assembly hall during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, without specifying whether other delegation members joined the walkout.
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Larry Rubin Asks Senate to Reject Dual Nationality Reform Promoted by Sheinbaum
Larry Rubin, the Republican Party’s representative in Mexico, called on senators to reject President Sheinbaum’s reform requiring sole Mexican nationality for the presidency, governorships and head of government of Mexico City.
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Investigation into the 43 of Ayotzinapa Is Not Closed, President Sheinbaum Says
President Claudia Sheinbaum said the presentation of new progress in the Ayotzinapa case, including new lines of investigation and analysis of phones, does not mean the investigation into the 43 students is closed.
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Hurricane ‘Polo’: Mexican Navy Deploys Nearly 3,000 Personnel in Support of Baja California Sur
Now a Category 3 and expected to make landfall Monday as a Category 2, the storm has prompted 111 temporary shelters and port closures from Nayarit to Los Cabos.
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PT Rejects Rupture With Morena; “We Will Always Go With the President,” Alberto Anaya Says
Despite threats from some PT leaders to drop the alliance over Morena’s choice of state coordinators, the party says the 2027 negotiating table is going well.
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Sheinbaum: No Elite Determines the Destiny of the Homeland
Before 20,000 people in Hermosillo, days ahead of a Senate debate, the president defended requiring sole Mexican nationality to run for president or governor.
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Promoted by the PAN, International Right-Wing Forum to Be Held in Mexico City
Felipe Calderón and Luis Almagro headline the Sept. 30 Foro América Libre, a network of 70 conservative groups backed by Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Ayotzinapa Case: The Report on the New Lines of Investigation Will Be on Monday, Sheinbaum Announces
Parents of the 43 protested the Army’s exoneration outside the CNDH; officials will now detail new arrests, searches and cellphone-data leads.
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Mexico at the UN: Velasco Defends Sovereignty and Calls for Renewing the Organization; Reiterates Support for Cuba and Recognition of Palestine
Speaking for Sheinbaum, the foreign minister said Mexico’s Constitution already embodies the UN Charter and that it is time for a woman to lead the UN.
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Mexico’s Food for Well-Being Agency Expects Production of 10,000 Tons of Cacao in Tabasco
The government will invest 32 million pesos in 100 fermentation modules so growers stop selling unfermented beans cheaply and earn more.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Confirms Her Attendance at the APEC Summit in November
Sheinbaum will travel to Shenzhen, China, for the APEC summit in November, where Mexico takes the baton as the next host, in 2028.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Received Lee Jae-Myung, President of the Republic of Korea, at the National Palace
Trade, culture, and education top the agenda of the Korean leader’s official visit, which includes the signing of a memorandum of understanding.
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Mexican Economy Accelerated at the Start of the Third Quarter of 2026
The economy grew 3.3% year-over-year in July, driven by a 4% rise in trade and services, and has grown 1.5% so far this year.
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Mexico Has Reduced Government Procedures by Almost 50%
Civil registry records can now be processed from anywhere in the world, passport steps fell from 21 to five, and 30 million people already use the digital platform.
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Sheinbaum Believes the UN Is Outdated; Points to Palestine, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela as Examples
Sheinbaum questioned a Security Council where five countries hold the veto, and explained why she chose not to attend this year’s General Assembly.
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Calderón Planned That in 2030 Mexican-Americans Would Govern Our Country
“Concepts considered ‘sacrosanct,’ such as sovereignty, must be reconsidered,” says the declassified Calderón plan obtained by Contralínea’s Nancy Flores.
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Mexico Picks Up the Pace to Ratify Its New Agreement with the European Union
Approved by the European Parliament in July, the modernized pact now awaits only the executive’s submission to the Senate for ratification.
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Trump at the UN: Accuses Mexico of Being the “Epicenter” of Drug Trafficking, but Highlights Progress with Its Government
“Mexico has to take back control of its land from the enemies of humanity,” Trump told the UN General Assembly, calling cartels the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.
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41.4% of Mexican Households Supplement Income with Government Programs
Up from 25% in 2020, according to Mexico’s statistics institute, which also found half of all homes now get some income beyond wages.
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Brugada Reaffirms the Right to Housing at the Urban 20, in NY
Beside New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, Brugada said nearly half a million people left housing poverty in Mexico City since 2018, and urged a global housing coalition.
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Companies Lobby Against Mexican Reform That Would Require Them to Report the ‘Definitive’ Price
Netflix, Uber, Rappi and DHL are pressuring Congress to weaken Morena’s bill against ‘drip pricing,’ the hidden fees tacked onto a low advertised cost.
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“I Want to Work With President Sheinbaum,” Mamdani Says; He Praises Her Policies
At the Urban 20 forum, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Mexico City an international ‘inspiration’ for how it confronts the cost-of-living and care crisis.
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Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms
A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia.
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Mexicana Receives Its Ninth Embraer Aircraft; Increases Its Capacity by 11.04%
Mexico’s recently nationalized airline Mexicana receives its ninth Brazilian-built Embraer E2, raising monthly capacity to 57,020 seats out of the AIFA airport.
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China Accuses the US of Dividing Mexico over Trade Dispute
China’s embassy described the US comments as an expression of “supremacy and hegemony” and asserted that they sought to discredit the economic cooperation between Mexico and China.
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Sheinbaum Meets Privately with Maru Campos on Her Arrival in Ciudad Juárez
If any law was broken in the drug operation involving CIA agents in Chihuahua, those responsible, including state officials, must be prosecuted, the two agreed.
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Beatriz Mojica: From Criticizing AMLO to Coordinating Morena in Guerrero
The senator on leave is Morena’s pick for governor of Guerrero in 2027, after a career that includes the PRD and her 2018 support for Ricardo Anaya.