Overview

• Mexico’s federal government reports at least 64 dead and 65 missing after last week’s torrential rains across Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí, with isolated communities reached by airlifts and road crews reopening routes.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum toured Poza Rica and Pinal de Amoles and announced the deployment of 600 Welfare brigades to conduct door-to-door damage censuses and begin direct aid deliveries this week under DN-III-E and Navy support, with emergency funds available.
• A coordinated wave of violence in Chiapas’ Fraylesca region saw vehicle burnings and road blockades in response to security operations, prompting a joint deployment with helicopter overflights and school suspensions as investigators assess the closures.
• In Sinaloa, federal and state forces detained four young men carrying AK-47 and M4-style rifles, a pistol, loaded magazines and tactical gear during ground operations in Navolato and Concordia, handing the suspects to federal prosecutors.
• Urban crime and severe crashes triggered parallel investigations: two women were arrested over a 26-year-old’s killing in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico and a PDI agent wounded an alleged teen attacker after a lawyer was shot near Ciudad Judicial, while in Argentina a DiDi driver in Córdoba injured seven pedestrians and separate fatal collisions on Routes 158 and 3 remain under probe.