Overview

• As Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum paid tribute to women in the Army, Air Force and National Guard, stating that intelligence, discipline and strength have no gender.
• She presided over the close of the 2024–2025 academic cycle and the opening of 2025–2026 at the Heroico Colegio Militar in southern Mexico City.
• Officials reported 15,785 graduates this year, including 110 civilians and 11 foreign students, and projected 16,500 new entrants for 2025 with 6,748 already enrolled plus 17 civilians and 10 international cadets from Argentina, Brazil, China, South Korea and Guatemala.
• Sheinbaum framed the cadets as the nation’s “pueblo uniformado,” urging respect for Indigenous peoples and a rejection of racism as core to patriotism.
• Earlier the same day, she received Marco Rubio and formalized a bilateral program focused on targeting cartels and the trafficking of drugs, weapons and people.