Overview

• Mexico City’s Fiscalía is analyzing CCTV evidence and forensic reports to identify suspects in the May 20 shootings of officials Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz.
• Spanish Supreme Court justices dismissed appeals by ex-minister José Luis Ábalos and adviser Koldo García, upholding Judge Leopoldo Puente’s inquiry into public works contracts.
• Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska ordered new hate-crime investigations after xenophobic attacks in Torre Pacheco and saw a stabbing suspect in O Burgo remanded to prison.
• Buenos Aires provincial mayors allied with Governor Axel Kicillof have filed their candidacies for the September elections, prompting President Javier Milei to accuse governors of perversely raising local taxes.
• Morena’s parliamentary group pledged to back state and federal prosecutors in the probe of former Tabasco police chief Hernán Bermúdez Requena and President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded documented evidence before accusing Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández.