Last week, the NYT portrayed President Sheinbaum as caught between a rock and a hard place as corruption allegations against Morena (and AMLO\u2019s son) intensified; this week, the WSJ reports that she is getting \u201cfed up with playing nice\u201d with Washington. Citing people familiar with the matter, Santiago P\u00e9rez reported that she grilled her security chiefs over plans to freeze the accounts of former officials linked to Baja California\u2019s Morena governor, whom the US Treasury was about to sanction over alleged ties to the Sinaloa cartel. She was \u201cunusually harsh\u201d with Security Minister Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch and saw the US measures as an attempt to destabilise her government, though she ultimately consented to the freeze.<\/p>
Meanwhile, border security was catapulted into the headlines over the weekend. Bloomberg reported on Saturday that Mexico had sent 159 naval personnel to match about 500 US soldiers in the Rio Grande Valley under what it calls \u201cmirror operations\u201d; Mexico\u2019s statement stressed \u201ccooperation without subordination\u201d. On Monday, US Ambassador Ronald Johnson said an armed attack had prompted the US deployment, and the Washington Post reported that the Coast Guard said it had come under fire from the Mexican side near Garce\u00f1o, Texas, on 26 September. Sheinbaum says Mexico\u2019s forces detected no such gunfire and has asked for evidence.<\/p>
The iron river of guns flowing south was the subject of a NYT investigation by Paulina Villegas, who spent time with four anonymous teenage traffickers, all current or former high school students in Phoenix. They buy firearms legally, through private sales and messaging apps (or steal them), then sell them almost exclusively to US-based cartel operatives, most of them linked to the Sinaloa cartel. \u201cWhat they do and who they kill is not my problem as long as I make my money,\u201d said one. Mexican authorities estimate that up to 500,000 firearms are smuggled south each year.<\/p>
On the economy, Reuters reported that auto exports fell 12 per cent year-on-year in September, the steepest drop since December 2025, which analysts blamed on US tariffs. Bloomberg reported that headline inflation rose to 3.45 per cent, slightly below forecasts, with food costs doing most of the lifting.<\/p>
Mexico\u2019s agribusiness suffered setbacks this week. On 2 October the FDA announced that inspectors had found cyclospora in wastewater from Taylor Farms\u2019 Mexican processing plant and at a supplying farm, which the NYT described as \u201cstrong new evidence\u201d that the summer outbreak in the US, which caused nearly 13,000 illnesses and two deaths across 21 states, came from the company\u2019s lettuce. Mexico disagrees: Cofepris said the findings do not prove Mexican products caused the outbreak, pointing to its own earlier lab tests. The FDA itself concedes it cannot yet say how the contamination occurred. The WSJ reported on 8 October that Taylor Farms will suspend sales of iceberg lettuce from Mexico between May and August 2027, the parasite\u2019s peak season. The FT reported that Mission Produce, which sells about a third of the avocados eaten in the US, is leaning on orchards in Peru and Guatemala to diversify away from Michoac\u00e1n, where criminal gangs extort growers and packers and US fruit inspections have been suspended three times since 2022.<\/p>
In culture, the NYT\u2019s Melena Ryzik spoke to Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu about\u00a0Digger<\/em>, his widely panned satire starring Tom Cruise. \u201cThe movie is not perfect,\u201d he conceded, but he prefers the debate to a lukewarm reception. And the Guardian\u2019s Ra\u00fal Vilchis asked whether new head coach Rafa M\u00e1rquez is really to blame for El Tri\u2019s four winless friendlies since the World Cup, including a 3\u20130 defeat to the US. Rather than blame M\u00e1rquez alone, Vilchis points to systemic problems, quoting one TV Azteca analyst: \u201cMexico\u2019s problem is not that they don\u2019t have good players, it\u2019s that they don\u2019t have enough of them.\u201d<\/p>
Blogs destacados en ingl\u00e9s sobre M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/h3>
The Mexico Political Economist reported on \u201ca little known presidential task force\u201d set up to boost investment by removing bureaucratic hurdles. Although it is still in its early stages, the private sector is \u201cmaking approving noises\u201d, crediting the streamlining with \u201cunblocking\u201d billions of dollars of investment. In his CrashOut newsletter, Ioan Grillo reported on the black market in turtle eggs and meat in Mexico, and on the local conservationists who risk their safety to protect the animals. One woman who runs a turtle protection group in Acapulco says: \u201cI have suffered a lot of consequences doing this work.\u201d In Materia Gris, guest contributor Haydee Barahona wrote about\u00a0Aztl\u00e1n, t\u00fanel del tiempo<\/em>, the first Chicano art exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. As one of the artists notes: \u201cI think as Chicanos, Chicanes, we\u2019re constantly grappling with this feeling of rejection, both in the U.S. and in Mexico \u2026 And I feel like standing in that in-betweenness right now is actually being studied and embraced, and people are trying to understand it and celebrate it.\u201d Miranda Intelligence published its incisive, polymathic daily Mexico reports \u2014 spanning Culture, Fintech, Markets, Public Affairs, Energy, Podcasts, Politics and Foreign Press (i.e., what you are currently reading).<\/p>
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