•FIFA World Cup trophy Mexico cancelled plans to shorten its school year ahead of the World Cup after widespread backlash from parents, think tanks, and local authorities, the government said yesterday. On Friday, Education Secretary Mario Delgado unexpectedly announced the school year would end about 40 days early, on June 5, arguing the deci...
•New York New Jersey Stadium (temporarily renamed from MetLife stadium) Mexican authorities yesterday announced that the school year would end over a month early as the country gears up to host World Cup matches, prompting broad backlash. Education Secretary Mario Delgado said the decision to end the school year 40 days early was made in [&he...
•General Roman Villalvazo Barrios, Chief of central co-ordination for security for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Mexico will deploy 100,000 police, military and private security forces to secure the 13 games it will host during this summer’s football World Cup, the government said today. Mexico is co-hosting the biggest World Cup in history, along w...
•Tik Tok While gunmen for the powerful Mexican narcotrafficker Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera were burning vehicles and blockading roads across Mexico in response to the killing of their leader, others stoked chaos through a different weapon: disinformation. The death of the most-wanted Mexican narco, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Car...
•Members of the National Guard take positions at a crime scene Mexico has deployed 10,000 troops to quell clashes sparked by the killing of the country’s most-wanted drug lord that claimed dozens of lives, officials said yesterday. Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was wounded Sunday in a shooto...
A high-calibre drug lord has been reportedly killed in a fierce gun duel in what is being feared as a Maduro-style kidnap attempt in Mexico. Report says all the other Cartels are on the rampage currently. The development has led to all flights to major cities being canceled. The resultant death toll is said to […]
•US President Donald Trump An alleged leader of the notorious Sinaloa cartel wanted by the United States has been arrested in Mexico on drug and terrorism charges, Mexican government sources said yesterday. Pedro Inzunza Noriega was accused by the United States in May of trafficking large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine and heroin into the countr...
A train carrying 250 people derailed partially yesterday in Mexico, injuring at least 20, officials said. The train’s locomotive left the tracks during a trip in southern Oaxaca state, said the Mexican navy, which operates this particular rail line. The navy said 20 people were injured, raising the previous toll of 15 reported by Oaxaca’s [&he...
•The Mexican flag Mexican authorities have arrested a former intelligence agent suspected of involvement in the 1994 assassination of presidential favorite Luis Donaldo Colosio — a case that stunned the nation and remains unresolved. Judicial sources told our correspondent that Jorge Antonio Sanchez Ortega was detained on Saturday in Tijuana, ...
•Mexican flag As many as 48 bags containing human remains were discovered and recovered from a clandestine grave near Guadalajara, Mexican authorities said yesterday. Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco State, where one of Mexico’s most violent and powerful drug cartels operates and where thousands of people have been reported missing, repor...
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