Overview
- The Senate’s Navy Commission canceled a Monday meeting that was set to advance authorizations for reciprocal special-operations trainings, a step meant to feed an extraordinary session targeted for January 13.
- Senator Manuel Huerta confirmed the suspension, saying members want time to review the issue given the changed international context.
- Without commission approval, there is no authorization for 29 U.S. special operators—19 Navy SEALs and 10 from a 7th Special Forces element—to train in Donato Guerra and two sites in Campeche from January 19 to April 15, with a planned C-130 arrival in Toluca on January 12.
- The pause also stalls the departure of 60 Mexican naval special-operations personnel to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for training scheduled from January 18 to March 13 on a U.S. Air Force C-130 from Toluca.
- Mexico’s government and Senate condemned the U.S. action in Venezuela and reaffirmed the non-intervention principle, and lawmakers describe the halt as temporary with no final cancellation announced.