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Iván Cazarín, regional CJNG boss known as ‘El Tanque,’ is captured in Zapopan

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Iván Cazarín Molina — the alleged regional leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) — was captured on Monday by federal authorities, Security Minister (SSPC) Omar García Harfuch confirmed in a social media post . The detention was the result of a joint operation carried out by Army special forces and the SSPC’s Operations Group, with information from the National Intelligence Center. The National Guard also collaborated, Harfuch said, as did Criminal Investigation Agency investigators from the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR), who identified his movements and located him. Cae en Jalisco Iván N, alias “El Tanque”, presunto operador del CJNG El titular de la Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, informó sobre la detención en Zapopan de Iván N, alias “El Tanque”, presunto operador regional del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación en Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco y Puebla. El operativo conjunto incluyó al Ejército, la SSPC, la Fiscalía Gen...
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Mexico’s fixed capital investment grew 6% in July, the fastest pace in 2 years

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Fixed capital investment in Mexico — money spent by the private and public sectors on long-term assets such as houses, factories and machinery — increased 6% annually in July, the strongest growth of any month in two years. The national statistics agency INEGI reported the seasonally adjusted growth rate on Monday in its monthly report on gross fixed capital formation, a measure of fixed capital investment (FCI). It is the product of a 5.9% year-over-year increase in private sector FCI and a 6.9% increase in public sector FCI. Annual private sector FCI growth increased 2 percentage points from June to reach its highest level in 30 months, a sign that businesses’ confidence in their long-term economic prospects is improving. However, public sector FCI growth slowed markedly from June, a month in which the annual expansion was 17.3%. The overall FCI growth rate was up slightly from a 5.9% annual expansion in June . The month-over-month increase in FCI was 1.4%. In an X post ...
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Activists condemn felling of ancient trees for border wall

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Federal contractors felled a centuries-old cottonwood on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday after U.S. Border Patrol agents removed protesters who had spent about 70 days trying to save it from President Donald Trump’s border wall expansion. The tree in Lochiel, Arizona, known to activists as the “grandmother” tree, was the last of four old cottonwoods targeted for removal at the site. Conservation groups estimated its age at 200 to 250 years, the newspaper La Jornada reported. Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona–a tree older than the border itself–to make way for a double border wall through critical jaguar habitat. A dozen protestors were arrested today trying to stop this travesty. — Laiken Jordahl (@LaikenJordahl) October 6, 2026 Activists told the media that 10 people were arrested and another 10 were cited and released. They said agents used a cherry picker to forcibly remove one protester fr...
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Even more security reinforcements are coming to Mazatlán as crime keeps climbing

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After multiple deployments of troops to Mazatlán over the summer to combat the port and resort city’s escalating cartel-related violence, the federal government has taken a new approach by forming an elite Special Operations Group comprising 29 highly trained Defense Ministry soldiers who will operate within the municipal police department. The most recent security reinforcement comes during a wave of homicides, armed attacks and explosive-based assaults across the city that led municipal Public Security Minister Gabino Ulises Jacobo Guerrero to urge the public to exercise extra caution between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m., the time period with the highest rate of criminal activity. After the federal government sent thousands of troops to the city, the Mazatlán municipal government chipped in by supplying 50 specially designed bicycles for the soldiers to maneuver their way through congested streets. (Estrella Palacios/Facebook) The elite force members are said to be highly skilled in night ...
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IMF now predicts Mexico’s economy will grow 1.5% this year

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised its projections for Mexico’s economic growth on Friday to 1.5% in 2026 and 1.8% in 2027, following a strong second-quarter economic performance, just three months after the organization had lowered this year’s growth forecast to 1.2%.  Achieving the forecasted economic growth will depend on Mexico making a greater effort to reduce its debt through fiscal consolidation, according to the IMF, which warned that growth will likely remain constrained by external uncertainties.  IMF lowers its Mexican growth forecast, citing ‘uncertainties’ and Mideast conflict The recent revision follows an official visit for an Article IV consultation mission to Mexico City in September, led by Gustavo Adler, IMF Deputy Division Chief in the Western Hemisphere Department.  Mexico recorded the second-highest quarter-over-quarter economic growth among G20 countries in the second quarter of the year, at 1.4% on a quarter-over-quarter basis betwee...
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Tijuana and Mexicali businesses at center of latest US sanctions targeting alleged Sinaloa Cartel network

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Currency exchange businesses, gas stations and food and beverage establishments are among 25 entities in Mexico sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week for their alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel. Last Tuesday, OFAC also sanctioned 21 individuals who allegedly “serve as leaders or facilitators for the Sinaloa Cartel.” Among those people are Ismael Zambada Sicairos, son of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García , and Carlos Alberto Torres Torres, ex-husband of Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda. The ex-husband of Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, Carlos Alberto Torres Torres, is featured prominently in this updated organizational hierarchy of Los Mayos’ maneuverings in the border city of Mexicali. (U.S. Treasury) “The 21 individuals and 25 entities designated include cartel leader Ismael Zambada Sicairos (a.k.a. ‘...
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Suspicious package on Mexico City Metro turns out to be churros

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A ride on the Metro and a freshly made churro are essential Mexico City experiences. An unattended box on Line 7 last week showed why the two should not necessarily be combined. When a passenger reported an unattended cardboard box on a train traveling southbound from El Rosario toward Barranca del Muerto on Friday, Metro security personnel and officers from Mexico City’s Policía Bancaria e Industrial (PBI) sprang into action. Churros, for the uninitiated, are quintessential Mexican deep-fried pastries, like elongated donuts, that are often enjoyed dipped in thick hot chocolate. (Camara Negra / Unsplash) With the package sitting alone in a train car, the standard protocol for suspicious objects was triggered, according to media reports. Officers reportedly checked it for hazardous materials, explosive devices or other threats. What they found was churros. Photos circulated by the Metro system showed an open cardboard box filled with paper-wrapped pastries that appeared ready for...
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