Overview

• President Sheinbaum’s administration sent 1,800 new army troops, including 300 special forces and parachute riflemen, to reinforce Culiacán security on the first anniversary of ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s U.S. transfer.
• Veracruz prosecutors, supported by military and naval units, detained two suspects in the kidnapping and death of teacher-taxi driver Irma Hernández Cruz, while Sonora authorities used police-drone coordination to arrest motorcycle thieves in Hermosillo.
• Culiacán’s perceived insecurity jumped to 90.8 percent in June, prompting expanded road checkpoints, mobile patrols and joint federal-state operations across Sinaloa and Badiraguato.
• At the Rural expo, President Javier Milei pledged to dismantle agricultural export levies and signaled imminent removal of beef export retentions, pending approval in Argentina’s Congress.
• The Peronist coalition staged a unity demonstration with Axel Kicillof and Mayra Mendoza in Quilmes as La Libertad Avanza revealed deep rifts among Javier Milei, his sister Karina and advisor Santiago Caputo.