{"id":19505,"date":"2026-07-17T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-jul-10-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:38:32","slug":"mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-jul-10-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/es\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-jul-10-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MI\u2019s Mexico Foreign Press Chatter \u2013 Jul. 10, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Coverage on Mexico<\/strong><\/h3>

Mexico\u2019s fans still celebrated the night of their hard-fought defeat against England on Sunday (watched by a record-breaking 44 million people in the US alone), but there has been a hangover this week as reality returns. \u201cYou could not reasonably argue that this setting \u2014 this stadium, this city, this noise \u2014 did not imbue tonight\u2019s game with some kind of devil magic\u201d wrote The Athletic\u2019s Jack Lang in a bittersweet farewell to El Tri and to Mexico as a country that didn\u2019t just co-host the World Cup, but \u201cmainlined it\u201d. In the LA Times, Gustavo Arellano wrote hopefully about \u201ca vibe I had never sensed before among Mexican Americans\u201d during this year\u2019s exciting run for Mexico\u2019s national team: \u201cThanks to this thrilling, ultimately futile World Cup, we can and will push for more, and settle no more.\u201d The British press widely commented on the graciousness of Mexican fans in defeat, many of whom warmly congratulated their English foes as soon as the match ended, not something you typically see after a West Ham-Millwall Dockers Derby.<\/p>

As football slowly retreats from the national headlines, a story from July 2024 has made a resurgence this week, starting with a Mexican media outlet reporting there was direct FBI involvement in the operation to abduct Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada and transfer him to the United States (US officials have denied operational participation). The New York Times covered the Mexican government\u2019s response, as prosecutors announced they are opening an investigation into this alleged violation of national sovereignty, a \u201cred-button issue in the current strained relationship\u201d.<\/p>

In economic news, Bloomberg reported on the bigger than expected decline in inflation in June (down to its lowest level since 2020), led by a drop in non-core inflation. This positive news was tempered, however, by an overall outlook of \u201cweak demand, continued economic slack and signs of cooling in the labor market\u201d. The Mexican automotive industry received a blow this week with the news that Toyota is moving the Baja California production of its Tacoma trucks to the US, which Bloomberg warned \u201ccould foreshadow a regional reset\u201d that triggers more automakers to partially relocate manufacturing to minimise tariffs.<\/p>

AP covered the ongoing confrontation between organised crime groups and vigilantes in rural Guerrero, with locals reporting drone bombing attacks, claiming they\u2019ve been left unprotected by law enforcement (federal authorities deny the drone attacks are happening). The outlet also covered the Mexican government\u2019s request that criminal charges be filed in the cases of 17 Mexican nationals who have been killed either in ICE detention or during immigration operations, after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo \u2014 a Mexican man who had lived and worked in the US for decades \u2014 was fatally shot by agents in Houston on his way to work this week. Bloomberg covered a report by International Crisis Group about the ongoing intra-cartel war in Sinaloa, which is still causing deaths at \u201calarming rates\u201d as well as disappearances and displacement, while \u201cneither criminal turf wars nor the government crackdown seems to have made a dent in the fentanyl supply\u201d.<\/p>

Blogs destacados en ingl\u00e9s sobre M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/h3>

Ioan Grillo (CrashOut) and Eduardo Garc\u00eda (Materia Gris) shared their reflections on this World Cup and what it meant for Mexico this week, despite their elimination from the tournament; Grillo described El Tri\u2019s last game as \u201can admirable end to a magic moment in Mexico with the World Cup unleashing a euphoria unlike anything I have seen in twenty-five years here.\u201d The Mexico Political Economist analysed why the US decision not to automatically renew the USMCA is better than an exit but will \u201cput a strain on Mexico\u2019s already embattled economy\u201d. In Mexico Decoded, Viri R\u00edos debunked what she claims is a \u201cmyth\u201d about Mexico\u2019s rich paying their fair share in taxes, noting that government statistics refer to corporations rather than individuals in the category of \u201clarge taxpayers\u201d. And Miranda Intelligence\u2019s daily Substack covered key developments in energy, fintech, public affairs and politics in Mexico.<\/p>