Overview

• Relatives in Córdoba lodged a fourth complaint linking deaths to a recalled HLB Pharma fentanyl batch, with Instituto Malbrán’s genetic reports ordered by Judge Ernesto Kreplak expected to determine bacterial matches.
• Argentina’s Health Ministry removed ANMAT official Mariela Andrea García from post‑market surveillance as oversight of the contaminated fentanyl case faces judicial scrutiny.
• Guanajuato’s state prosecutor confirmed two dead and 17 injured in a shooting at a San Miguel de Allende patronal festival, with some wounded declining to file complaints.
• Police in central Mexico discovered six human heads on the Puebla–Tlaxcala highway next to a narcomessage blaming a feud tied to illicit LPG fuel theft.
• In separate probes, CDMX authorities placed a police officer at the disposal of the Ministerio Público after the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old motorcyclist at a checkpoint, and Buenos Aires investigators reported officer Maximiliano Gargiulo’s death with the alleged gunman still at large.