Overview
- Mexico’s foreign minister Roberto Velasco visited the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and toured the Joint Coordination Center with U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson as part of expanded binational security talks.
- Officials and local reporting say a new Bilateral Implementation Group (BIG) has been put into operation to target transnational crime and emerging technologies such as drones.
- Mexican authorities are activating Plan Kukulkán for World Cup host cities, with press reports citing a deployment of 99,000 federal, state and local personnel to secure venues in Jalisco, Nuevo León and Mexico City.
- Mexico and the United States say they will share information and coordinate operations with Canada and FIFA to improve risk assessments and rapid responses, though some operational details come from embassy posts and local press rather than formal SRE releases.
- Centralizing planning in a joint center and BIG is meant to speed decision making across federal and state forces and could alter how security is managed at venues and transport hubs during the tournament.