Overview
- From December 15–19, Mexico’s Defense and Navy met in Mexico City with U.S. Northern Command for a technical session focused on World Cup security coordination.
- Participants reviewed 2026 plans, tightened joint procedures, and prioritized integrated communications for tournament events, with no operational deployments announced.
- The group advanced designs for a unified communications portal and outlined steps toward a centralized data exchange to enable coordinated responses across borders.
- Officials situated the work within the Bilateral Military Cooperation Roundtable established in 2016, emphasizing reciprocity, shared responsibility, and respect for sovereignty.
- Related trilateral efforts in August brought Mexico, the United States, and Canada together to align counter‑UAS preparations with government and industry partners, according to the U.S. State Department.