Overview

• Manuel Bartlett met privately with Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña at the Upper House, and the senator posted a photo of the meeting on X.
• Fernández Noroña defended Bartlett’s trajectory and his tenure at CFE, asserting a gas‑pipeline renegotiation saved about $4 billion for the country.
• The meeting comes after weeks of Mexican media reports alleging a U.S. investigation linking Bartlett and relatives to the 1985 killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena.
• Mexico’s Security Cabinet stated that León Manuel Bartlett Álvarez and Julia Abdalá Lemus are not on the Lista de Personas Bloqueadas and that their bank accounts are not frozen.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum previously said Bartlett’s mid-July National Palace visit was to see a legal adviser, and U.S. authorities have not publicly confirmed any investigation.