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Mexican Red Cross rescue dogs have departed for Venezuela to join the search for survivors after two devastating earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale hit the South American country on June 24. The most recent cohort includes Querétaro canines Orly, Balam, Kenai and Halley, who traveled to Venezuela on Saturday as part of the USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) team specializing in search in collapsed structures.  Hoy, el equipo #USAR a nivel pesado de #CruzRojaMexicana parte rumbo a #Venezuela para apoyar en las labores de búsqueda y rescate. Les deseamos fuerza y éxito en esta gran misión. 🇲🇽🤝🇻🇪 #AyudaHumanitaria #BúsquedaYRescate #AcciónHumanitaria #Mexico pic.twitter.com/9fUOfYd8Ke — Cruz Roja Mexicana IAP (@CruzRoja_MX) June 28, 2026 The dogs join a team of 18 canine heroes dispatched along with 250 Mexican troops following the earthquakes that have resulted in at least 1,400 deaths and more than 3,200 injuries.   Other countries from the region, in...

Two state police officers were murdered in recent days in separate attacks in the border city of Mexicali, Baja California, crimes that authorities say could be linked to operations against an organized crime group. Ruben López, a 27-year-old Baja California state police officer, and his 26-year-old wife, Anayeli Anaya, were shot dead by armed men outside their home in Mexicali last Friday night. The woman was shielding her three-year-old boy when she was shot, according to state officials. The boy survived the attack. 🚨 El secretario de Seguridad, Laureano Carrillo señaló que los asesinatos de dos agentes estatales ocurridos con menos de 24 horas de diferencia son una respuesta a los operativos en el Valle de #Mexicali que han derivado en la captura de presuntos integrantes del grupo criminal… pic.twitter.com/E5r7S5KxaB — La Jornada Baja California (@LaJornadaBC) June 28, 2026 The next day, 32-year-old state police officer Manuel Enrique Guerrero Sánchez was gunned down at a ta...

Editor’s note: This feature brings together previous Mexico News Daily reporting on Mexico City’s Metro culture, commerce and mobility — now updated to include information on how to use the subway system and on the latest renovations made for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It is conceived as a single, long-read guide for visitors and residents who want to rely on the Metro to get around as Mexico City welcomes the world. The backbone of the city’s transportation network The new and improved Metro Line 1 can now carry 850,000 passengers a day. (@ClaraBrugadaM/X) Now that the 2026 FIFA World Cup has started, thousands of visitors are trying out Mexico City’s Metro subway system for the first time and discovering that it’s not only a convenient way to get from Mexico City Stadium to their hotel, it’s also a rolling museum, a bustling marketplace and the backbone of a vast mobility network across the city that includes buses, light-rail trains, bicycle rentals — elect...

The FIFA World Cup delivered the week’s most jubilant moments, as Mexico’s national team closed out the group stage with a perfect record , beating Czechia 3-0 on Wednesday night in a match that sent El Tri into the knockout round undefeated. The goals and the stadium roar were matched by diplomatic warmth off the pitch: Spain’s King Felipe VI arrived at the National Palace on Thursday evening for his first meeting with a Mexican president since the inauguration of former President López Obrador eight years ago , a visit framed by both governments as a turning point after years of friction rooted in Mexico’s 2019 demand that the Spanish Crown apologize for Spain’s 16th century conquest of the Aztec Empire. While soccer dominated the national mood, the week also brought more sobering news. The newspaper Reforma published excerpts from a forthcoming memoir by former U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar, in which he wrote that AMLO was “very concerned” abo...

After a full season 2 of “Confidently Wrong about raising and educating your kids in Mexico,” George and I are back at it again, taking on important topics impacting Mexico. Our objective with this podcast, as always, is to do a deeper dive into topics that we find many people (including George!) are often “Confidently Wrong” about: topics that social media tends to misrepresent, stereotypes that are shallow and misleading, and issues that people tend to form a very superficial opinion on. Our goal is not to convince you one way or another about our opinion, but rather arm you with more facts, data and perspectives to help you form a more informed opinion. As we often say in Mexico News Daily, our aim is not to tell you what to think, but rather to help inform you to be better prepared on how to think. With that backdrop, our first episode of Season 3 is a good one. When many (if not most) people hear the word “fracking,” they often have a negativ...

President Sheinbaum has suspended school activities and ordered mandatory home office (teleworking) for the public sector in Mexico City for June 30. The Mexican national soccer team plays a Round of 32 World Cup match at Mexico City Stadium (Estadio Azteca) on that Tuesday against a third-place finisher still undetermined on Friday morning. The president’s decree is intended to alleviate traffic, enhance mobility and improve road safety ahead of that all-important game. In announcing the decree, Luisa Alcalde, the Sheinbaum administration’s legal counsel, emphasized that providers of essential services, whether public or private, are exempt from the mandate, including security, health, transportation, telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation. (Luisa Alcalde) In a social media post published on Friday, Sheinbaum’s legal counsel Luisa Alcalde explained that the decree instructs “agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration … to grant the necessary fa...