Ildefonso Ortiz

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum drew harsh criticism this week for a series of comments she made, telling the people not to watch a critical Mexican TV station that consistently reports on the government’s cartel ties.

Mexico’s second-highest official became the butt of jokes after her late arrival to a top-level cabinet meeting, where she was seen struggling to get off the back of a motorcycle, remove a pink helmet, and run inside.

Police forces raided one of the largest cartel meth labs ever and made a historic seizure, while arresting three Mexican cartel members … in Nigeria. The raid exposes the growing expansion of Mexican cartels, which are developing partnerships with other criminal organizations worldwide.

Two mayors in central Mexican cities have been arrested on federal extortion charges, while authorities are currently searching for a third mayor. The mayors are all from the central state of Morelos.

Authorities in central Mexico are investigating the brutal murder of ten victims, including a 20-month-old child, at the hands of cartel gunmen. Authorities in Mexico claim the mass killing was in response to a family having forced one of the gunmen into a drug rehab center, from which he escaped.

The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros is on high alert after the murder of a Mexican federal officer who was assigned to the building’s security detail. While Mexico’s government is trying to downplay the murder as a traffic incident, U.S. consular officials are actively investigating to determine if there is a direct threat to any U.S. personnel, as the incident appears to have been a targeted attack.

As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her government continue to claim that the U.S. Government does not have any evidence of wrongdoing against Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine of his closest allies, who are accused of working for the Sinaloa Cartel. Three of those officials have now crossed the border into the U.S. and allegedly turned themselves in.

A report published by a Mexican NGO has raised serious questions about a 2025 seizure of illegal fuel that government officials claimed was historic because the ship carried ten million liters. The report revealed that the ship was carrying twice as much fuel as what was actually seized, raising serious questions about the widespread corruption within Mexico’s government.

Authorities in Mexico arrested a bodybuilding influencer and raided various properties of his in connection with a large-scale cartel-connected fuel theft and smuggling investigation. The influencer was described by authorities as a regional leader of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, a criminal organization that is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. government.

The governments of the United States and Mexico are refuting a series of reports from CNN and the New York Times claiming that CIA agents were carrying out covert assassination operations targeting cartel figures in Mexico.

A group of activists who search for mass graves and missing persons reported the discovery of two cartel incineration sites in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, just south of McAllen, Texas. This marks the 19th discovery of human remains by activists in that city alone this year.

A group of gunmen released a video where they pull up to a house belonging to Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and spray gunfire into the abandoned home before leaving. The attack comes soon after Rocha Moya became the topic of much controversy after the U.S. Department of Justice accused him of being a cartel lackey.

A group of cartel gunmen carried out a brazen attack on a funeral procession in front of a squad of Mexican Army soldiers who did nothing to stop it. The attack comes at a time when the governor of that state, Sinaloa, had to take leave after him and nine of his closest allies were named as drug traffickers in a criminal indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice.

United States President Donald J. Trump has once again increased the pressure on Mexico by declaring that if they won’t fight cartels head-on, his government will and threatened the use of ground forces, which he claimed are easier to move than the ongoing attacks on cartel boats at sea.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum turned to a nationalist rhetoric, telling the Trump administration to stay out of her country.

Hundreds of people are planning a major celebration in the Mexican city of Culiacan, Sinaloa, over the resignation of the state’s cartel-connected governor, who is now a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Mexican governor of Sinaloa, who made headlines this week after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a criminal indictment against him, has taken a temporary leave from his post pending the outcome of the scandal. Other public officials from Sinaloa, also named in the indictment, asked for leave.

Dozens of residents in the cartel-controlled city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, took a high risk by holding a protest, blocking one of the area’s main avenues, and asking to be able to live in peace. The protest follows an attack by gunmen from the Gulf Cartel that led to the murder of two innocent citizens with complete impunity, while the Tamaulipas government claims that the state is one of the safest in the nation.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is openly challenging the U.S. Justice Department and is apparently using her political power to prevent the arrest and extradition of a sitting state governor, a senator, and a mayor, all from her political party, MORENA. Those three men and seven other top law enforcement officials from the state of Sinaloa are wanted in a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is being forced to choose between protecting the cartel- connected political party that got her into power or actually fighting drug cartels, as the Trump administration has been pressuring her to do. For now, Sheinbaum appears to be moving to protect her party. It remains to be seen how the U.S. government will react.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment against a sitting Mexican governor and his closest allies. The case is historic in nature since it is the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been named in a cartel-connected criminal case.

The head of the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office, Cesar Jauregui Moreno, resigned his position following the highly publicized death of two U.S. agents after a raid in Mexico. The state prosecutor had earned a reputation for being tough on cartels at a time when Mexico’s federal government continues its soft or even complicit approach to criminal organizations.

Two high-level military operations carried out by Mexico’s Navy delivered a powerful blow to the most feared terrorist group in Mexico, Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The arrests of two of its top leaders come just weeks after Mexico’s military forces, working with U.S. intelligence agencies, killed the cartel’s supreme leader and founder, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, in February.

Mexico’s Navy raided a trucking depot that was being used by the Gulf Cartel to store thousands of gallons of stolen fuel that would be sold on the underground market as part of a complex moneymaking scheme.

The U.S. Department of State sent out a travel alert warning U.S. citizens to avoid the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, following a series of blockades and attacks on police surveillance cameras. As part of the blockades, cartel gunmen stole some tractor-trailers, parked them across highways, and set them on fire.

Mexico’s government seeks to extradite a fugitive vice-admiral who is wanted in connection with a large-scale cartel-connected fuel smuggling conspiracy. The admiral allegedly attempted to flee to Argentina to avoid prosecution in Mexico.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is calling for an investigation into why two U.S. agents were allegedly operating in her country alongside Mexican state authorities. The Mexican president has largely remained quiet about how a drug trafficking organization was able to set up and operate one of the largest meth labs in history with almost complete impunity until those two agents worked with Mexican state authorities to shut them down.

Authorities are labelling Monday’s mass shooting near Mexico City as a lone wolf attack that killed one Canadian woman and injured over a dozen other victims, including six U.S. citizens. New information from the crime scene also points to the shooter attempting to pay homage to the 1999 Columbine mass shooting which took place in the United States.

A former city official from the border city of Matamoros remains in federal custody after U.S. law enforcement agents arrested him in connection with the attempted smuggling of cocaine in Texas. Since information about the arrest went public, the City of Matamoros has tried to distance itself from the case, claiming that he had stopped working there months before his arrest.

At least two Canadian tourists died in a mass shooting attack at Mexico’s Sun Pyramid near Mexico City, which left four others with gunshot injuries. Two tourists sustained numerous injuries when they fell off the pyramid while running away from the gunfire, say officials.

Two U.S. officials, a top Mexican state law enforcement official, and his bodyguard died over the weekend in a highway crash in Mexico.

A politician in southern Mexico who is listed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a fugitive has now been reported missing and is believed to be the victim of a cartel kidnapping.

A recent cocaine seizure in southern Mexico points to a new trend as traffickers have increased land smuggling operations in response to the aggressive interdiction actions taken by the U.S. government, which have sunk numerous vessels in international waters.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has identified two cartel-connected groups in the border state of Tamaulipas, as well as three of their main operators. As part of the move, the U.S. government is freezing any related accounts and prohibiting U.S. citizens from doing business with the sanctioned individuals.

The U.S. Government publicly identified the main operator behind a cartel propaganda network that benefited one of Mexico’s most violent terrorist organizations. The man claimed to be a human rights activist. Numerous international news outlets routinely quote that individual, further pushing his pro-cartel propaganda.

Once more, a group of gunmen pulled up to a bar in Cancun and fired several shots, killing one employee inside. The attack is the latest of its kind in a growing trend in the popular tourist destination, where criminal organizations carry out shooting attacks as part of an extortion operation, and a way to control the street-level sale of narcotics at those establishments.