Mexico

Mexican Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said workers of a Canadian mining company were abducted and killed in Sinaloa by cartel operatives after being mistaken for members of an opposing organization.

Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez slammed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for saying she continues to seek diplomatic ways to get oil to Cuba, which teeters on the brink of collapse as a result of shortages.

The bodies of at least four workers of a Canadian mining company abducted by alleged cartel members were found in Sinaloa, according to a new report.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the country is currently not sending any oil to Cuba as a result of U.S. pressure on the beleaguered Caribbean country.

Mexican cartels have been managing to get a hold of high-caliber ammunition from a plant set up in a facility owned by the U.S. government and manufactures rounds used by the military, according to a new report.

The camps appear to be part of the infrastructure used by organized crime, adding weight to the idea that the workers' disappearance is tied to drug trafficking violence in Sinaloa.

The former Mexican president has for years denied receiving money either from drug cartels or from Venezuela to fund his 2006 campaign.

Long waits to regularize immigration status and restrictions on movement out of southern Mexico have fueled a black market in Mexican birth certificates and residency cards for Cuban migrants stranded in Chiapas, according to reporting by Noticias Telemundo.

Diego Rivera Navarro took office in October 2024 after running as a candidate for Morena, Mexico's ruling party and the same party as President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has repeatedly denied that members of her party have ties to organized crime.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that "Mexico does not kneel, does not bow, does not surrender and does not sell out," as tensions grow with the United States over oil shipments to Cuba and new tariff threats from Washington.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is unlikely to fully take on drug cartels in the country because many members of her party, Morena, are facing allegations of having ties with organized crime themselves.

More than three in four Mexicans reject having U.S. troops on the country's ground as the Trump administration has been suggesting, according to a new poll.

The Mexican government is planning potential ways to send fuel to Cuba to address acute shortages without triggering retaliation from U.S. President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order imposing tariffs on countries who do.

D'amaso López Serrano was once an influential figure within the Sinaloa cartel due to his father, Dámaso López Núñez, who for years served as the right-hand man of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

According to testimony from Damaris Osorio, cousin of Pablo Osorio Sánchez, a 26-year-old civil engineer, he was at a bus stop along the Durango-Mazatlán highway waiting for transportation to the Concordia area when he was kidnapped.

Deputies Elizabeth Montoya and Sergio Torres were traveling in a vehicle accompanied by two bodyguards on Jan. 28 when they were attacked by a group of armed civilians.

Additional pressure on remittances emerged at the start of 2026, when the Trump administration implemented a 1% tax on remittances sent in cash, money orders, or cashier's checks

U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico fell to their lowest level in more than 50 years in fiscal year 2025, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal data.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio celebrated on Tuesday an agreement with Mexico in which the country made a commitment to address a shortfall in water payments to the U.S.

President Donald Trump dismissed diplomatic talks with Mexico over the country's intention to continue sending oil to Cuba as humanitarian aid as Havana's economy teeters on the brink of collapse.

Tens of migrants were freed from a stash house in Mexico after a neighbor alerted authorities, according to a new report.

Mexican media reported a fire at a ranch located in the community of La Tuna, in the municipality of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, an area historically linked to drug trafficking and, in particular, the Sinaloa cartel.

Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez slammed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for announcing her administration will send aid to Cuba, saying she is helping a "murderous and cruel dictatorship."

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration will send humanitarian aid to Cuba but hold off on oil shipments due to an order from President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on countries who do.

10 Canadian miners have been abducted in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities confirmed.

The deployment comes just days after two local lawmakers from the Movimiento Ciudadano party were injured Jan. 28 in an armed attack in Culiacán. The shooting left three people wounded.

The increasing influence of drug cartels in Mexico made 2025 a very violent year, according to a recent investigation by a civil society organization that documented thousands of cases involving crimes of extreme violence across the country.

According to the Mexican government's official account, Wedding voluntarily turned himself in to authorities, a version rejected by the Canadian's own lawyer, Anthony Colombo, who said his client had been arrested by the FBI.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she has instructed the foreign ministry to get in touch with the State Department to learn about the extent of the recent executive order imposing tariffs on goods to countries who provide or sell oil to Cuba.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated that the country will "never accept joint operations" with the United States after controversy arose over the arrest of former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding.