{"id":19677,"date":"2026-08-21T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-aug-14-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:41:47","slug":"mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-aug-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/es\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-aug-14-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MI\u2019s Mexico Foreign Press Chatter \u2013 Aug. 14, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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

A staff writer for The Atlantic, Kevin Sieff, happened to be eating sushi with a police chief near the Culiac\u00e1n KFC joint where influencer C\u00e9sar Gast\u00e9lum was shot dead last week, leading to an in-depth report about how cartel violence has seeped into the layers of Sinaloa society and how US pressure has worsened deadly divisions.<\/p>

Sieff notes that \u201cthe cartel presence [in Culiac\u00e1n] has never been subtle\u201d, and writes of the despair of residents. He interviewed the mother of a young man who was kidnapped with a friend last year and hasn\u2019t been heard from since, describing the lethargic reaction from Mexican authorities and her attempts to leverage her son\u2019s US citizenship (so far, to no avail). Of Governor Rub\u00e9n Rocha Moya, she lamented: \u201cAll I could think was that I had begged that man for help\u2026But of course, he did nothing. He had been working for the cartel the whole time.\u201d<\/p>

The cultural impact and precarious existence of Mexicans living north of the border drew focus in the foreign press this week. The New Yorker reported in detail on the deadly 7 July ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and the outrage it sparked on both sides of the border, quoting analyst Carlos Bravo Regidor on the Mexican government\u2019s response: \u201cThis is one of the few moments when Mexico is the one raising the stakes.\u201d<\/p>

Food reporters from The New York Times embarked on a cross-country journey exploring Mexican restaurants in the USA, noting the explosion in popularity of regional Mexican cuisine (\u201da dynamic cuisine all its own and as American as any food\u201d) not just in big cities but in places like Oklahoma and Idaho; all this, while Mexican Americans live under the shadow of Trump\u2019s deportation crackdown.<\/p>

The Wall Street Journal reported on Mexico\u2019s proposal that the US only tax the value of automobile components sourced from outside North America (letting Mexican and Canadian parts qualify duty-free) as a counter to Washington\u2019s push for higher US-content requirements in the ongoing trade tug of war. Colombia\u2019s rejection of a Mexican offer to assist with earthquake rescue efforts was covered by Bloomberg; acceptance of assistance from the US, Israel, Ecuador and El Salvador has raised questions about the ideological motivations of the freshly installed right-wing government of Abelardo de la Espriella.<\/p>

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

This week, The Mexico Political Economist examined how three Mexican states (CDMX, Tamaulipas and Yucat\u00e1n) are utilising different strategies to attract more investment and boost local industry. In CrashOut, Ioan Grillo published part one of a biographical sketch of one of Los Chapitos, Iv\u00e1n Archivaldo Guzm\u00e1n, and his rise to power. In Mexico Decoded, Luis Manuel Le\u00f3n wrote about the vast, threatened \u201cinvisible forest\u201d that supplies most of Mexico City\u2019s water via 11 (overexploited) aquifers, which also supply other urban areas including Cuernavaca and Toluca. And Miranda Intelligence\u2019s daily Substack covered key developments in energy, fintech, public affairs and politics in Mexico.<\/p>