NEWS BRIEFS
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Mexico Has No Information or Evidence on Alleged Ties of Raúl Castro’s Grandson to Human Trafficking in Quintana Roo
The New York Times invented a ‘Cuban Mafia of Quintana Roo’; Mexico says it has no evidence whatsoever tying organized crime to foreign officials or their relatives.
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Intentional Homicides in Mexico Have Fallen 51% Since September 2024
This July was the lowest for the month in 12 years, with 44 fewer intentional homicides each day than when Sheinbaum took office.
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‘Alito’ Invokes the Idea of an Invasion from the US to Save Himself and Revive the PRI
He filed a complaint with the State Department seeking sanctions and visa revocations against the electoral councilors who ordered him to stop calling Mexico a ‘terrorist and communist narco-dictatorship.’
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Mexico City: Rents Rose More Than Double Inflation in a Year
Four months after a stalled initiative to cap rent hikes, rental prices maintain an upward trend.
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Utopía Elena Poniatowska Inaugurated in Coyoacán with a 242-Million-Peso Investment
Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada opened the community hub in San Lucas, Coyoacán, reclaiming nearly 20,000 m² of public space for over 130,000 residents.
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Mexico Expresses Concern over China’s 54.3% Tariffs on Pecans
China’s anti-dumping ruling hits Mexican pecan exporters with duties up to 51.6% starting Tuesday; the Economy Secretariat says it will seek to prevent their final imposition.
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Two Far-Right Organizations Seek to Revive in Mexico… but End Up Alone
A century after the Cristero War, sinarquistas and a Carlist circle rallied to the Paseo del Pendón, but failed to gather support, even among the right.
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Sheinbaum Kicks Off the National Reforestation Day in Puebla; the Goal Is to Plant 6.6 Million Trees in a Day
Sheinbaum decreed the reforestation day an annual event and proposed renaming the Cortés Pass, between two volcanoes, the ‘Pass of the Indigenous Peoples.’
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Mexico and Brazil Strengthen Economic Ties; Foreign Minister Seeks New Investments
In São Paulo, Velasco courted Embraer and the state industry federation with Plan México, after meeting Lula and co-chairing the two countries’ VI Binational Commission.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sheinbaum Promises to Benefit 12 Million Families With Housing Programs During Her Term
Nearly a third of Mexican families will be reached: 5.2 million restructured loans, 1.8 million new Wellbeing homes, plus deeds, renovations and Infonavit credits.
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Mexico’s Environmental Secretariat Says Ferromex Must Remediate the Damage From Chemical Spill in Sonora
The derailment dumped 70,300 liters of sodium hydrosulfide into a Sonora streambed, 11,000 more than first reported, contaminating 1.7 square kilometers.
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Mexico Exported 501,824 Tonnes of Avocado to the US Between January and April
A 35% surge over 2025 keeps avocado Mexico’s second-biggest agri-food export to the US, a market worth US$3.653 billion last year.
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Pemex’s Financial Debt Stood at 77.5 Billion Pesos, 9.1% Less Than in 2025
Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, cut its debt while hydrocarbon output rose 4.6% and sales revenue jumped 30.3% year on year.
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Mexico’s Old Judiciary Had Freed the Leader of Los Rs, Detained for the Murder of Carlos Manzo
Absolved in five federal cases and freed by a 2022 “judicial Saturday” ruling, R1 had been exposed in AMLO’s press conference as the emblem of impunity used to justify reforming the Judiciary.
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Sheinbaum Denies Censorship With Guidelines on Audience Rights: ‘There Has Never Been More Freedom’
She reiterated that “there is no censorship nor will there be censorship, because it is our conviction,” recalling how past governments phoned owners to fire critics.
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Mexican Government Invests 2 Billion Pesos and Reinforces Strategy to Contain Sargassum in Quintana Roo
This year’s sargassum influx is four times greater than 2025 and 27 times the historical average, with some 9,000 tons washing onto Quintana Roo’s beaches every day.
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‘R1’ Arrested, Alleged Mastermind of the Murder of Former Mayor Carlos Manzo
Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala leads Los Rs, a CJNG cell; his capture brings to 31 the number detained over the Uruapan mayor’s November 2025 killing.
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Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat Orders Closure of Militarized Schools Before August 31
The order follows the alleged femicide of a 13-year-old at a militarized-school camp; the first academy targeted is Puebla’s Ignacio Zaragoza.
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Korean Firm Kia to Invest $649 Million in Mexico to Begin Electric Vehicle Production in the Country
Kia will invest $649 million to produce its first electric vehicle in Mexico at its Pesquería, Nuevo León plant. Production starts August 4, creating 2,000 jobs through 2030, report Muñoz and Jiménez.
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“I’m Going to Beat the Hell Out of Marina,” Jaime Bonilla Says About the Governor in New Video
The video, leaked by outlet Pie de Nota, shows former governor Jaime Bonilla threatening Marina del Pilar, Baja California’s sitting Morena governor, amid a 2022 feud.
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Government Promotes Discussion to Regulate Social Media for Minors
Specialists warned that attention spans in front of a screen fell from two and a half minutes two decades ago to about 47 seconds today.
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Arbitral Tribunal Dismisses Almost All of Vulcan’s Claims Against Mexico
Only the 2018 closure of a property of Vulcan’s CALICA subsidiary was ruled a violation, less than 1 percent of what the company had demanded from Mexico.
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Sculptures of Fidel Castro and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara Will Be Built Again and Placed in Mexico City
The life-size figures, known as Encuentro, sat on a bench in Tabacalera until the Cuauhtémoc mayor removed them last July, a removal officials later deemed illegal.
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Mexico and France Agree to Insist on Initiative to Limit the Veto in the UN Security Council
The Franco-Mexican proposal, backed by 120 countries since 2015, would bar the UN’s five permanent members from vetoing action on genocide or war crimes.
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Sheinbaum: False That an ‘Anti-Argentine Campaign’ Exists from Mexico
Sheinbaum rejected Milei’s claim of an anti-Argentine campaign, saying Mexico doesn’t meddle abroad and asks only for the same respect.
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Mexico’s Exports Reach a Record in the First Half of 2026
Mexico’s trade surplus jumped to $9.857 billion from $1.433 billion a year earlier, as non-oil exports surged 25.6 percent on booming US demand for electronics.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Announces Cancellation of La Parota Dam in Guerrero; Water Wells Will Be Built Instead
After a two-decade grassroots fight against the CFE dam on the Papagayo River, the government will supply Acapulco with radial wells and tanks instead.
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Thousands March in Mexico City in Support of Cuba, 73 Years After the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, Against US Attacks on the Island
Backed by over 100 organizations, from Morena to communist parties, the march condemns Trump’s invasion threats and the six-decade blockade.
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The Study of the Far Right Is Necessary: Mexico’s Science Secretary
Scholars at a Secihti panel traced how far-right movements, “neither new nor spontaneous,” are gaining ground by borrowing the left’s own vocabulary on jobs, freedom, and crisis.
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Mexico’s Security Chief Says Slain Temoac Mayor Was Under Investigation for Organized Crime and the Samir Flores Case
Killed in his own office, mayor Valentín Lavín was himself under investigation for organized crime ties and as the alleged mastermind of three murders, including activist Samir Flores.
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and Ex-PAN Governors Defend Ruffo Appel and Allege ‘Political Persecution’
The PAN’s old guard closes ranks behind Ernesto Ruffo, a fellow governor charged with fuel smuggling and organized crime, recasting him as a persecuted ‘political prisoner.’
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Sheinbaum Confirms Resumption of Mexican Cattle Exports to the US
The US border, shut to Mexican cattle since May 2025 over a screwworm outbreak, reopens in late August via Agua Prieta, Sonora, then two points in Chihuahua.
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U.S. Tariffs Do Not Affect Mexico; They Stayed at the 10% That Products Outside the USMCA Already Had: Sheinbaum
Speaking in Cuernavaca after meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, she said rules of origin remain under negotiation.
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In Mexico, Collectives Will March This Sunday in Defense of Cuba and Anti-Imperialism
Organizers expect a bigger turnout than the annual July 26 mobilizations, marching to the former U.S. embassy on the 73rd Moncada anniversary.
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Mexico’s Science Secretary Strengthens Cooperation with China in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Rosaura Ruiz met with Ambassador Chen Daojiang to advance joint AI, semiconductor, and electromobility projects, plus possible collaboration with Huawei.
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Mexican Government Rules Out Cyclospora Contamination in Taylor Farms Lettuce in Mexico
Mexican food-safety regulators found no parasite or fecal coliforms, as the U.S. FDA’s contamination alert on the lettuce turned out to be a false positive.
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“We Made Progress on the USMCA Review”: President Sheinbaum Upon Concluding Meeting With Greer
The U.S. Trade Representative arrived at Palacio Nacional under heavy security, joined by Ambassador Ronald Johnson, for nearly 90 minutes of talks.
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Mexico’s Attorney General Takes Over Investigation into the Murder of Oaxacan Journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar
Gustavo Castillo reports on the federal takeover of the murder case of Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, 58, a CORTV ex-director and critic of Oaxaca’s governor.
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Mexican Billionaire Salinas Pliego Used Private Spies to Cheat in Court, British Judge Accuses
Salinas Pliego paid Black Cube, a firm of Israeli ex-agents, £1.1M to pose as oil executives and trap his rival’s lawyer into leaking case secrets over drinks.
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The Spanish Left Backs Sheinbaum Against the Threat of Far-Right Interference
At a Madrid rally, PSOE, Sumar and IU deputies and unions called Sheinbaum a ‘beacon of light’ and denounced a ’21st-century Monroe Doctrine.’
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Protesters at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico Demand the Release of Maduro and His Wife
As Maduro and Cilia Flores faced a New York court on ‘narco-terrorism’ charges, Mexico’s Anti-Imperialist Front burned photos of Trump, Vance, and Netanyahu.
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Homicide Incidence in the State of Mexico Falls 56% from September 2024 to This Past June
The daily homicide average in the State of Mexico fell from 6.6 to 2.8 as a single-command strategy across 15 eastern municipalities drove 3,330 arrests.
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Mexico’s Environment Secretariat Halts Mining Companies: Demands Environmental Authorization in Protected Areas
The decree takes effect Tuesday and covers even pre-2023 concessions, with Supreme Court backing that holding a concession grants no automatic right to mine.
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Sheinbaum Says the 152 Hospital Projects Planned for the Six-Year Term Advance, with an Investment of 181 Billion Pesos
Of the 152 projects, 50 are brand-new hospitals; the plan adds 13,300 census beds by 2030, more than triple the neoliberal era’s 4,300.
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Colossal Archaeological Exhibition of Mesoamerica Amazes in China
Nearly 3,000 pre-Hispanic relics, 804 of them from Mexico, fill the Shanghai Museum in Asia’s largest such show since 2001, drawing 10,000 visitors a day.
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FDA Corrects Itself: Mexican Lettuce Did Not Cause ‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Outbreak; It Was a ‘False Positive’
The FDA apologized to Taylor Farms after wrongly blaming Guanajuato-grown lettuce supplied to Taco Bell for an outbreak; no positive samples were confirmed.
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Record High for Mexico’s Corn Imports in the First Half of the Year
Corn imports hit 12.28 million tons, almost all US yellow corn for livestock, while white corn for tortillas fell as domestic harvests stabilized supply.
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Up for Global Tender, Mexico’s Purchase of 3.536 Billion Medicines
Eight federal agencies will jointly buy generic, cancer, and anti-infective drugs for 2027-2028, with deliveries slated to begin in January 2027.
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The Zócalo’s FIFA Fan Fest Reports Full House for the Last Match of the 2026 World Cup
Fans began arriving before six in the morning for the Spain-Argentina final, and by halftime Civil Protection had declared the plaza at full capacity.