Overview

• On July 6, President Claudia Sheinbaum and Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch launched a five-pillar National Strategy Against Extortion to strengthen investigations, local response units, victim support, specialist training and public awareness.
• On July 8, the Fiscalía General de la República opened a corruption probe into the Nogales bypass concession implicating federal deputy Julio Scherer Pareyón and said it expects to seek arrest warrants soon.
• Morena senators ruled out summoning the heads of the Treasury and banking regulator over U.S. allegations of money-laundering until the Senate reconvenes in September.
• Sheinbaum’s administration vowed to issue arrest orders for any public officials found complicit in fuel theft or extortion.
• Indigenous residents in Cherán scheduled a march for July 9 to demand justice after a CJNG attack killed a community officer; security officials also suspect hooded provocateurs infiltrated recent Mexico City gentrification protests.