Mexico

The economy is pivoting toward new international partnerships while managing corporate distress and US pressure over Cuba. The US formed a critical minerals partnership with Mexico, and Chinese automakers BYD and Geely are competing for a Nissan plant. However, TV Azteca, controlled by Salinas, announced bankruptcy proceedings, and Mexico suspended oil supplies to Cuba under US tariff threats.

• 8US forms critical minerals partnerships with EU, Mexico, and Japan
• 3Mexico's Pemex supplied $496 million of oil to Cuba in 2025
• 2Mexico's Salinas-controlled TV Azteca announces bankruptcy proceedings
• 2Mexico approves bill cutting workweek to 40 hours by 2030
• 2US invests $40 million in Mexican agricultural research center

Sheinbaum is consolidating power through electoral reform and investigations while managing confrontations with the US and Elon Musk. She is pushing electoral reform with allies and revealed investigations. She gave a defiant response to Trump's message celebrating the 1847 invasion and is weighing legal action after Musk linked her to drug cartels.

• 5Sheinbaum pushes electoral reform and defends her party's name
• 5Mexico's Sheinbaum pledges humanitarian aid to Cuba amid US pressure
• 4Trump's message celebrating 1847 invasion of Mexico draws defiant response from Sheinbaum
• 3US forces not involved in operation that took down cartel leader: Mexican president
• 3Mexico weighs legal action after Musk links president to drug cartels

Security is dominated by the military operation that killed drug lord 'El Mencho', with questions over US involvement. The operation took down the cartel leader, but Sheinbaum denied US forces were involved. Cartels are tightening their grip on the vape market after a national ban.

• 1Mexican columnist calls for cartel leader's capture
• 1US press details raid and Washington's role in El Mencho's downfall
• 1Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' killed in military operation
• 1When The 2021 Arrest Of El Mencho's Wife Led To Kidnapping Of Navy Officials
• 1Mexican Embassy building collapses in London

Society is focused on the government's persistent humanitarian aid shipments to Cuba, which Sheinbaum uses to walk a diplomatic tightrope with the US. Multiple aid shipments were sent, framed as a response to the US blockade. A secondary tension involves media freedom, with Mexico ranking third for journalist murders in 2025.

• 2Mexico’s school textbook author refuses to leave desk four days after sacking
• 2Mexico City air quality alert status changes after anticyclone
• 2Mexico advances shorter work week and changes Cuba aid
• 1The faces of Mexico’s disappeared haunt this city's streets. Families worry they will be wiped away
• 1Mexico ranks third for journalist murders in 2025