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The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday formally designated two Mexican crime groups as “foreign and global terrorist organizations,” joining six other Mexican cartels that the U.S. has labeled as terrorists. Officially, the Treasury changed the designation of the two groups — the Juárez Cartel and the Los Viagras cartel — by adding them to the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals” (“SDNs”).  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose Treasury Department formalized the new terrorist designations, justified the action by saying that they “highlight the diverse and insidious ways in which cartels engage in violent activities and exploit legitimate commerce.” (U.S. Treasury) “The sanctions announced … highlight the diverse and insidious ways in which cartels engage in violent activities and exploit legitimate commerce,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday. On the practical level, once an organization is designated as an SDN...

After a meeting in Mexico City on Wednesday with Panamanian President Juan Raúl Mulino Quintero, President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed the Mexican government’s support for the Panama Canal neutrality protocol. Her remark during a joint press conference with Mulino at the National Palace comes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to retake control of the canal, which was formally transferred to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999. Two weeks ago, Trump said that the United States wouldn’t let China take control of the Panama Canal, a vital shipping route that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Mulino, a center-right president elected in 2024, noted that Panama and Mexico are both “bridge nations,” in that Mexico links North America to Latin America and Panama is the connection between North and South America. “We are, because of our vocation and geography, countries that unite,” he said. (Matio Jasso / Cuartoscuro.com) On Wednesda...

The U.S. fast food chain Chipotle wlll open its first restaurant in Mexico this week, the company announced on Monday. The first store will open on Thursday in the upmarket Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza García in the border state of Nuevo León. It forms part of a wider rollout across Mexico, with Chipotle’s first store in Mexico City planned for 2027, according to the company.  Predictably, the very idea of a U.S. restaurant chain offering Mexican food in Mexico, especially a fast-food version, provoked much mockery on social media. But the Chipotle leadership is convinced there’s a market for it and is planning more restaurants in the north as well as in Mexico City. (Chipotle) Chipotle recently partnered with the restaurant group Alsea, which operates brands like Starbucks in Latin America. “We are entering Mexico with deep respect for the country’s culinary heritage and a commitment to delivering the Chipotle experience with excellence,” Chipotle’s CEO Scott Boatwrigh...

In a telephone conversation with one man identified as an “external” FBI adviser and another man identified as an FBI “special agent,” Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda — who was stripped of her U.S. tourist visa last year — said she is willing to cooperate with U.S. authorities, apparently in order to avoid possible criminal charges in the United States and extradition to that country. An audio recording in which Ávila speaks of her willingness to collaborate with U.S. authorities was published by the newspaper El Universal on Monday in a column by journalist Héctor de Mauleón . The column is headlined “In new audio, Marina del Pilar offers to collaborate with the FBI.” 🔴 A pesar de que la gobernadora de Baja California aseguró nunca haber buscado acuerdos privados con autoridades de Estados Unidos, una nueva revelación de @hdemauleon demuestra lo contrario. En la grabación filtrada, se escucha a la mandataria expresar su t...

Mexico’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a landmark case that could recognize bees as subjects of rights, a move Indigenous communities say is critical to protecting both biodiversity and their own cultural survival. In an amparo case — a Mexican constitutional injunction used to defend fundamental rights — a group of Maya communities in the southeastern state of Campeche is asking the high court to grant legal standing to melipona bees native to the area. The Campeche municipality of Hopelchén, located toward the bottom of the map, 93 kilometers due west of the city of Campeche and 174 kilometers south of Mérida, is the state’s most productive beekeeping and agricultural region and home to the communities involved in the rights case. (Google Maps) The case also asks that Indigenous beekeepers be recognized as the guardians of these stingless honeybees, which are facing mass die-offs linked to deforestation for soy production, heavy pesticide use and climate change. These hards...

National health regulator Cofepris found concentrations of bacteria higher than permitted in several coastal destinations in Mexico, including two of the country’s most popular beaches. As part of its annual pre-summer vacation beach monitoring , Cofepris (Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks) reviewed beaches in all 17 coastal states and examined thousands of samples taken at 289 beaches between mid-June and early July.  La #Cofepris alertó que Playa del Cuale, en #PuertoVallarta , rebasó los límites permitidos de bacterias, por lo que fue clasificada como no apta para uso recreativo en este periodo vacacional. Noticiero en #ImagenTVGDL con @erickbreguer #NoticiasImagen pic.twitter.com/wO7DLRsYmt — Imagen TV Guadalajara (@ImagenTVGDL) July 13, 2026 Most destinations met federal health standards (98.3% to be exact), but five sites exceeded the established microbiological limit for recreational activities. Among the five deemed not suitable for swimming w...