Overview

• Jesús Muñoz Gutiérrez arrived in Mexico on Sunday, with the Foreign Ministry saying consular staff from Addis Ababa and Frankfurt escorted him and that he was received in Mexico City by protection chief Vanessa Calva.
• South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry announced a “successful repatriation,” stating Muñoz was transferred to the custody of Mexican ambassador Alejandro Estivill Castro in a process it described as fluid and orderly.
• Muñoz was convicted in the United States of second‑degree murder and was flown on July 5 to Juba with seven other foreign nationals under a revived practice of removals to third countries.
• Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier said her government was not notified of the July transfer and directed the Foreign Ministry to secure Muñoz’s return.
• South Sudan says the remaining deportees are still under its supervision as their governments negotiate their cases, while rights groups continue to criticize the third‑country deportation policy.