Overview
- Senior Mexican and U.S. officials convened at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Friday to put the Group Bilateral de Implementación (GBI/BIG) into operation with representatives from about 15 U.S. agencies and Mexican security counterparts.
- The GBI’s technical agenda prioritizes coordinated action on fentanyl and other drugs, illicit firearms flows, cartel networks, fuel theft, irregular migration and emerging threats such as drones, with an emphasis on measurable, results‑oriented follow‑ups.
- Mexico formally excluded the criminal case against Rubén Rocha Moya from the GBI’s agenda and has demanded that the United States transmit any evidentiary material through formal legal channels; the U.S. provisional‑arrest request linked to a Southern District of New York indictment remains a separate, pending legal matter.
- Officials cited recent operational figures to justify deeper cooperation, pointing to claimed drops in some fentanyl seizures at the southern U.S. border and large narcotics and weapons seizures in joint operations as foundations for the new mechanism.
- Both governments committed to regular, implementation‑focused meetings under principles of mutual respect and sovereignty, and presented the GBI as the next stage of an ongoing security partnership that will be tracked by periodic metrics and reports.