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The Mexican Navy has rescued 28 minors who were allegedly being transported illegally aboard a vessel without a declared route. There are conflicting reports about Thursday’s incident, which occurred near the port of Topolobampo in the municipality of Ahome in the northern Pacific state of Sinaloa. The Navy released this photo of the minors being interviewed upon disembarking, with their faces blurred due to their age. It was unclear on Friday if they were being trafficked, though it did appear that they were being transported illegally. (Semar) The Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office reported that the Navy intercepted the ship, adding that the youngsters had been recruited as day laborers from somewhere in southern Mexico. “In a rescue operation carried out by the Naval Ministry, 28 people were assisted — 27 between the ages of 14 and 17 and one 18-year-old — who were on a vessel at sea,” the Sinaloa authorities said, according to the newspaper La Jornada. However, the Navy said in an ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) criticized Mexico’s judicial reform and accused the Mexican tax agency SAT of “aggressive and inconsistent tax enforcement practices” in a lengthy document submitted to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). In response to the USTR’s request for public comments on the USMCA ahead of the 2026 review of the trilateral North American trade pact, the USCC prepared a 39-page document — including a detailed letter — that refers to a wide range of issues and makes a number of recommendations. In a section of the Oct. 28 document entitled “Factors Impacting the Investment Climate in North America,” the USCC states that the U.S. business community “is facing increased uncertainty that affects companies’ ability to make long-term plans and investment.” “As previously stated, in Mexico, the recent judicial reform allowing for the direct election of judges has put at risk the government’s obligations to provide to all the right to a competent,...

Mexican authorities closed off five hectares within a protected biosphere reserve after discovering illegal logging had taken place and unauthorized orchards had been planted. After receiving a complaint last week regarding logging and land use violations, the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) inspected a property in the influence zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in the state of Michoacán. At the site of the violations, trees were cleared to make room for avocado plants. (Profepa) Within the ejido property in the municipality of Contepec, Profepa agents detected an avocado orchard comprising roughly 500 avocado plants between 0.80 and 1.80 meters tall and several lime trees on land designated as protected forest land.  Inspectors verified the damage to the oak-pine forest ecosystem in this 2.2-hectare area of the property, identifying 12 oak tree stumps that represent an estimated total volume of 3,616 cubic meters of wood.  In anoth...

The Mexican economy contracted 0.3% in annual seasonally adjusted terms in the third quarter of 2025, according to official preliminary data published on Thursday. A 2.9% year-over-year decline in secondary sector activity, which includes Mexico’s large manufacturing industry, caused the annual contraction between July and September. Mexican economy contracts 0.6% in September, capping weak Q3 The primary and tertiary sectors both grew in annual terms in the third quarter, according to the national statistics agency INEGI . The annual contraction in Q3 was the first year-over-year decline for the Mexican economy in any quarter since the final three months of 2021. The economy also contracted 0.3% compared to the second quarter of the year, according to INEGI’s preliminary data. The quarter-over-quarter contraction was the first since the final three months of 2024 . Global uncertainty, weak domestic consumption growth , lower government spending on infrastructure projects and ...

Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya acknowledged on Tuesday that drone attacks have recently been carried out in Badiraguato, a municipality in Sinaloa where convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was born and grew up. He noted that the attacks have generated fear among residents of Badiraguato and forced some families to leave their homes to seek refuge in safer places. Some of the attacks reportedly targeted a property in the village of La Tuna where Guzmán Loera’s deceased mother formerly lived. There are no reports of the drone attacks having caused fatalities or injuries. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Rocha said that state and federal authorities had responded to the situation and seized “a lot of drones.” Citing unnamed security sources, Aristegui Noticias reported that authorities have seized seven drones as well as material used in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices. 🔴Miedo en #Sinaloa : “La gente se han ido desplazando de esta zon...

Mexico’s unemployment rate rose in September compared to the previous month, even though the size of the national workforce increased by more than 700,000 positions. The national statistics agency INEGI reported on Tuesday that the unemployment rate was 3% in September, up from 2.9% in August and 2.9% in September 2024. The unemployment rate last month was 0.8 percentage points higher than the all-time low of 2.2% , recorded in March 2025. The 3% rate was the highest since August 2024. Although the size of Mexico’s workforce grew by 744,998 positions last month to reach just over 60.24 million, the unemployment rate increased slightly because the economically active population (PEA) — people aged 15 or over in jobs or looking for work — rose by an even higher number. The PEA increased by 793,353 people compared to August to reach 62.09 million people. Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis at Banco Base, said on social media that there was a “clear deterioration” of the ...

A group of young Mexicans has been awarded the globally recognized Iris Prize in the STEM category for a project that seeks to reconnect a community with its local river through citizen science.  Dubbed Journey to the Microcosm of Nuevo León , the project invites residents of the Monterrey metropolitan area and beyond to get to know the Santa Catarina River, which in recent years, has been seen more as a flood risk than a valuable part of the city’s ecosystem.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Iris Project (@theiris_project) Running from Guadalupe through the southern boroughs of Monterrey, the Santa Catarina River is home to over 1,200 documented species — including the monarch butterfly, the American beaver and the spiny soft-shell turtle — but was essentially paved over as Monterrey expanded its sprawl beginning in the 1950s. Since Hurricane Alex in 2010, the riverbed has been rewilding , aided by initiati...

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Mexican authorities had assumed responsibility for the rescue of one survivor from U.S. military attacks that claimed the lives of 14 men on board alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean.  Hegseth said that the United States Southern Command “immediately initiated Search and Rescue (SAR) standard protocols” given that one person survived the U.S. attacks. “Mexican SAR authorities accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue,” he wrote. According to an anonymous U.S. military official cited by the New York Times , the lone survivor was picked up on Tuesday. Hegseth said on social media on Tuesday morning that the U.S. Department of War, “at the direction of President Trump,” carried out on Monday “ three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific.” “… A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed duri...

Welsh soccer star Aaron Ramsey, who joined Mexico City–based Pumas UNAM in July to become the first high-profile British player in Liga MX , has doubled the reward for his missing dog Halo to US $20,000 as the search in central Mexico stretches into its third week. The 34-year-old midfielder said Halo, a 10-year-old beagle, vanished Oct. 9 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. She was wearing a GPS collar when last seen in the vicinity of Hipsterrier, a dog camp/boarding facility, he added. Besides captaining the Welsh national team, Ramsey played for European powerhouses Arsenal and Juventus before joining Pumas this year. (on X) “If you have any news about our Halo, don’t hesitate to contact us,” he wrote on Instagram. “There will be a BIG REWARD for finding her. We’re all praying that she’s OK and can be back with us soon.”  The initial reward offered was US $10,000. He later posted a black-and-white photo of the dog resting on his arm, captioned, “What I’d do to ho...

The United States government effectively killed off three Mexican financial institutions by accusing them of laundering money for drug cartels and announcing a ban on transactions between them and U.S. banks.  Four months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury made public its accusations against the banks Intercam and CIBanco and the brokerage firm Vector, all three of the financial institutions have ceased to operate in Mexico.   CIBanco signed a deal to sell off its trust division, while Intercam was acquired by Kapital Bank. (Intercam/Facebook, Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro) Intercam was acquired by Kapital Bank, CIBanco sold off its fiduciary division before it went into liquidation and Vector’s assets were transferred to Finamex, another brokerage firm.  Jorge Arce, vice president of the Mexican Banking Association (ABM), acknowledged last week that the three financial institutions have ceased operations, and asserted that their exit from the Mexican market ...

Mexico’s rapid response to the severe flooding in the center of the country earlier this month has restored all power and reconnected most of the affected communities, the Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina said on Monday . Over 50,000 homes were damaged across the central and eastern states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Puebla when Tropical Storm Raymond hit on Oct. 9 and 10, provoking intense rain that caused flooding and landslides across at least 109 municipalities. A week after Mexico’s floods, the death toll is at 72 and dozens remain missing Since the disaster, 220 of the 288 affected roads have been cleared, 1,277 of 1,475 schools have been cleaned of debris, and electricity has been restored to 100% of communities, Esteva Medina said during the daily presidential press conference on Monday. Wellbeing Minister Ariadna Montiel confirmed on Monday that the government continues to carry out work in ...

The community organization Alas Mayas (Mayan Wings) has detected a new migratory route for the monarch butterfly that crosses the Yucatán Peninsula, reaching Quintana Roo. In collaboration with the researcher Dr. Cristina Dockx, Alas Mayas conducted community monitoring for six years, during which they found that the monarch butterfly not only transits but also breeds in the northeast of the peninsula. This was particularly noteworthy on Isla Mujeres, where monarch butterflies have been observed at all stages of development: egg, larva, chrysalis and adult. During this time, the group recorded more than 300 specimens in San Juan del Río, Yucatán, and nearly 100 in Cacao, Quintana Roo, supporting the hypothesis that this region is part of a new migratory route connecting the United States, Cuba and southeastern Mexico. The group also revealed they successfully tracked a monarch butterfly with a transmitter for the first time in the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve.  Unlike the for...

U.S. Homeland Security agents assigned to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested two men after seizing 400 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition at a Laredo, Texas, border crossing last week. In a brief statement, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the suspects — identified as Emilio Ramírez Cortez, a legal U.S. resident, and his son Edgar Ramírez Díaz, a U.S. citizen — were charged with attempting to smuggle weapons into Mexico. The incident took place on Oct. 23 at the Laredo Bridge 2 Port of Entry — also known as Gateway to the Americas International Bridge — after Customs agents stopped two southbound vehicles towing box trailers for inspection. According to Fox News, the inspection was ordered when agents noticed irregularities in the trailer walls. The inspection revealed that hundreds of firearms, including rifles, high-capacity magazines and ammunition, were concealed in hidden compartments. No other details about the seizure were made public, n...

The week of Oct. 20-24, 2025, delivered a major win in the international fight against fentanyl trafficking as Cuban authorities successfully recaptured Chinese criminal “Brother Wang” after he escaped from house arrest in Mexico City in July. The past five days also saw former President Felipe Calderón float a potential political comeback, and Sheinbaum tackle everything from breast cancer prevention to soda consumption during her daily press conferences. Didn’t have time to read every story this week? Here’s what you missed. Brother Wang’s capture and deportation In a significant victory for regional drug enforcement efforts,  fentanyl kingpin “Brother Wang” was recaptured in Cuba after escaping from Mexico. The arrest marked a dramatic turn in a case that had embarrassed Mexican authorities when the high-value target fled the country. Brother Wang, whose real name is Zhi Dong Zhang , had been a priority target for both Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies due to his ...