Mexico

Sources from Mexico

• Reformaes
• El Universales
• Mexico News Dailyen

The peso has become the world's worst-performing currency as carry traders flee, erasing a key anchor of Sheinbaum's economic record. Higher oil prices allowed the government to pull back billions in Pemex support, while Mexico charted its own path in trade talks with the U.S. and China extended an anti-dumping probe into pecan imports from both Mexico and the U.S.

• 2IMF urges Mexico to accelerate debt reduction
• 2The Morning Risk Report: Mexico Tightens AML Rules Amid U.S. Pressure
• 1Mexico’s week in review: Peso sinks to 18 as school safety, storms and trade talks dominate
• 1Volaris will end Tulum flights as airline exodus from the Caribbean coast resort continues

Sheinbaum delivered her second government report amid high approval, closing a tour in the Zócalo, but notable absences by Noroña, Adán Augusto López and Maru Campos signaled internal Morena friction. She met privately with Chihuahua governor Maru Campos and confirmed a South Korean presidential visit, while addressing abortion, Morena unity and copyright law in her mañanera.

• 5López Obrador Returns With New Book Dedicated to Sheinbaum
• 2Mexico to prohibit presidents from holding dual citizenship
• 2Qatar, Mexico hold third round of political consultations
• 1Brazil election offers lesson for Mexico, says Alito Moreno
• 1Sheinbaum meets victims of Mexico's dirty war

Cartel violence dominated the security agenda after a Mexican musician, his pregnant wife, child and nanny were killed in grisly shootings, followed by the murder of a Spanish exchange student that prompted arrest warrants and a Sinaloa Cartel suspect's detention. Mexico and the U.S. launched an anti-drone operation at the border, and a hidden crypto farm in the mountains spotlighted cartel funding methods.

• 2Attack at Mexico secondary school kills vice principal, injures three
• 1Paw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruit
• 1Mexico Says Its Troops Sent to Border in Conjunction With US
• 1One dead in knife attack at Mexican school
• 1US hands over 20 fugitives to Mexico

Hurricane Polo's Category 5 landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast forced evacuations, flooding and power cuts across the region, dominating the period's societal disruption. A fireworks blast killed at least 10 at a Mexico festival, and the murder of a Spanish student drew mourning in Spain, while a protester waving a Mexican flag confronted JD Vance at a GOP convention in the U.S.

• 2Amnesty International backs UN call to protect women searchers in Mexico
• 1Mexico moves to ban violent content on social media after school attack
• 1Eviction accusation against two elderly women highlights Mexico City housing crisis
• 1Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
• 1Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast

Who covers Mexico most

Outlets by number of headlines in September 2026, with their stance toward the country.

• El Universal250 titles

  0ReportorialDomestic

  factual, domestically focused, mildly critical on governance issues

• Reforma71 titles

  0ReportorialDomestic

  factual, institution-focused, mildly critical of government

• Mexico News Daily52 titles

  +1ConstructiveDomestic

  generally favourable, development-focused coverage of Mexico

• El País46 titles

  0ReportorialFrom Spain

  mixed, factual with critical and sympathetic threads

• Breitbart19 titles

  From United States
• Reuters18 titles

  From United States
• El País15 titles

  0ReportorialFrom Spain

  mixed, factual with critical and sympathetic threads

• CNN14 titles

  From United States