{"id":19116,"date":"2026-04-24T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-17-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:31:51","slug":"mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/es\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MI\u2019s Mexico Foreign Press Chatter \u2013 Apr. 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign press coverage<\/strong><\/h4>

A WSJ report \u2013\u2013criticized by many in Mexico as trivializing a serious issue\u2013\u2013 on \u201cnational sex symbol\u201d Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch is the latest of several recent profiles of the federal security chief in the international press \u2014which seems to have as much of a crush on him as the Mexican public. Harfuch\u2019s appeal, blending \u201claw enforcement, celebrity and fantasy into a single persona\u201d, is compared to other attractive politicians like Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto and Governor Samuel Garc\u00eda; no mention is made of Genaro Garc\u00eda Luna, another top cop who once inspired similar accolades (though no shirtless merch) before his steep fall from grace. Harfuch\u2019s presidential potential \u2014which was clear long before the latest viral adoration\u2014 is also briefly touched on in the piece, though it fails to recognize that his family\u2019s \u201cpedigree\u201d (his father was head of the DFS and his grandfather was defense minister during Tlatelolco massacre) could prove more of a liability than an asset. Harfuch wasn\u2019t the only Mexican official to get an international profile this week: the LA Times covered the rise of Roberto Velasco, perhaps controversially headlined as \u201ca gay millennial\u201d, becoming the country\u2019s top diplomat, and President Sheinbaum was again included on Time\u2019s 100 Most Influential People list.<\/p>

In security news, Mexico\u2019s missing got visibility with a report about the Sheinbaum administration\u2019s struggle to address the crisis in the New York Times, and a story by AP chronicling the efforts of search collectives. Bloomberg covered the rescue of Taxco\u2019s kidnapped mayor and his father, and Reuters reported on the US Treasury Department sanctions against Raymundo Ramos, a human rights activist in Nuevo Laredo who the US says is on the Cartel del Noreste payroll, allegedly to do PR for the cartel and discredit Mexican law enforcement.<\/p>

On the political front, AP covered Sheinbaum\u2019s \u201cfirmer stance\u201d towards the Trump administration in response to the fifteenth death of a Mexican citizen in U.S. custody in just over a year; the president has called for full investigations into the deaths and said Mexico could take the issue to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights or the UN. The biggest national policy issue of the week \u2014the move towards fracking to reduce Mexico\u2019s reliance on natural gas imports\u2014 was covered in Bloomberg, framing Sheinbaum\u2019s decision as a reluctant reversal of AMLO\u2019s rigid anti-fracking position.<\/p>

Blogs destacados en ingl\u00e9s sobre M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/h4>