Overview

• Two federal district courts in Mexico City and Zacatecas granted suspensiones de plano for Andrés Manuel “Andy” and Gonzalo “Bobby” López Beltrán, blocking potential detention, incomunicación, ilocalizabilidad, deprivation of life, and forced disappearance.
• Reporting indicates the petitions may have been promoted by third parties without the brothers’ consent, including a Zacatecas filing by a person identifying as Francisco Javier Rodríguez Smith MacDonald.
• Court records in expediente 2098/2025 note an unsigned filing and set a hearing for October 28 at 12:00 p.m., highlighting procedural irregularities under review.
• The measures list FEMDO and its chief, Alfredo Higuera Bernal, as the responsible authority in a probe into fiscal fuel theft, linking the writs to an ongoing organized-crime investigation.
• At the morning briefing, President Claudia Sheinbaum urged senators to consider sanctions and clarify who may file such writs, while Arturo Zaldívar labeled the tactic a political attack and cited possible civil or criminal remedies.