"The explosion came as the federal government has stepped up security activities in the state, sending in additional troops after two recent high-profile assassinations."

"Estadio Azteca will become the first stadium to host World Cup matches across three tournaments after undergoing an $80-million renovation."

"Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said she was pepper-sprayed and 'pushed around' by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a raid at a Tucson restaurant on Friday."

"Decades of escalating violence and failed security strategies have left many Mexicans skeptical that their government can battle cartels without U.S. help."

"World Cup co-host Mexico was optimistic about its chances of advancing from the group stage after being drawn to play against South Africa, South Korea and a yet-to-be-determined European team."

"Two recent killings — one of an outspoken representative of the lime growers, the other a popular mayor standing up to the cartels — have made a long-known truth impossible to ignore: Organized crime controls much of Michoacan and its economy."

"The Mexican Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ernestina Godoy, a close ally of President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the country's new attorney general, cementing a key appointment just hours after the president submitted a shortlist of candidates for the role."

"The prisoners represent the top echelons of Mexico’s biggest criminal organizations—the Sinaloa, Jalisco New Generation and Zetas cartels."

"Mexican authorities have killed one of the country’s top fentanyl traffickers, accused of importing tens of thousands of kilos of the drug into the US and wanted by the US authorities on narco-terrorism charges."

"Under the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico is seizing illegal guns at twice the rate of the previous administration — more than 17,000 in the past year. According to data from Mexico’s Security Ministry, 70 percent of those guns came from the U.S."

"Supporters began calling him Batman, in English, when crime rates dropped precipitously in Mexico City during his tenure as police chief."

"Alejandro Gertz Manero, one of the veteran figures of Mexican politics, has stepped down as attorney general but, at 86, he is not retiring from public life."

"For 300 years, New Spain remained the glittering jewel in the Spanish crown, enriching the mother country and shaping world history."

"A contingent of Mexican army Special Forces soldiers have been deployed to the state of Chihuahua as part of anti-crime efforts following a recent mass killing during a horse race in Parral."

"Mexico unveiled plans Wednesday to build what it claims will be Latin America’s most powerful supercomputer — a project the government says will help the country capitalize on the rapidly evolving uses of artificial intelligence and exponentially expand the country’s computing capacity."

"The Russian Embassy in Mexico City denied that Moscow was spreading disinformation, calling Sputnik and RT, formerly called Russia Today, unbiased alternatives to American media."

"U.S. companies need to voice their concerns about roadway security issues in Mexico and encourage Sheinbaum to collaborate with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to dismantle the groups that are threatening and undermining the major companies that are operating in Mexico."

"While Sheinbaum flatly rejected the idea of a direct U.S. military incursion into Mexican territory, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also ruled out any unilateral U.S. action, interventionist rhetoric is growing among the president’s electoral base."

"Authorities on Friday arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico who they were supposed to be protecting."

"The Mexican government has sent 600 soldiers to Chihuahua in the wake of a massacre at a private racetrack in the southern tip of the state."

"Far-right extremists in places like the Inland Empire and San Diego are staging high-profile 'active club' rallies."

"Members of the national and local spheres of power understand their mutual dependence and tend to collaborate, until they don’t, as in the War of Independence that ended in 1821 or the Revolution of 1910."

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared last week that U.S.-Mexico anti-drug cooperation was at 'an all-time high,' adding: 'We’re not going to take unilateral action or go in and send American forces into Mexico.'"

"On Monday, men arrived in a boat at a beach in northeast Mexico and installed some signs signaling land that the U.S. Department of Defense considered restricted."

"Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has again dismissed Donald Trump’s threat of military action against drug cartels inside her country, telling reporters: 'It’s not going to happen.'"

"Kate Rogers, the former Alamo Trust CEO who was recently pressured to resign, decided on Monday to fight back."

"Donald Trump is open to the possibility of launching attacks on Mexico[.]"

"President Donald Trump said Monday he supports aggressive action against drug cartels and narcotics production in Mexico and Colombia, his latest saber-rattling in the region after a series of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific."

"President Donald Trump opened the door Monday to launching U.S. strikes in Mexico, a move that would be a dramatic escalation of his administration’s fight against drug cartels."

"For the first time, a majority of Latinos — 65% — say it’s a 'bad time' to be Latino in America, though only 38% of Republican Latinos agree."

"Grijalva, who won a special election to replace Rep. Raúl Grijalva, her late father, is the first Latina – and 'first Chicana,' as she said — to represent the state of Arizona in Congress. Though she is the first, she said she won’t be the last."

"A group calling itself 'Generation Z Mexico' that called for the protests has said in a 'manifesto' circulating on social media that it is non-partisan and represents Mexican youth that are fed up with violence, corruption and abuse of power."

"At least 120 people were injured as thousands of gen Z protesters took to the streets of Mexico City and across the country to voice their anger at corruption and the drug violence that claims tens of thousands of Mexican lives each year."

"How the eagle, the cactus and the serpent became an emblem and endured through the European conquest is the focus of a new exhibition. 'A coat of arms, an emblem, a symbol of identity,' runs through Dec. 15 at the Old City Hall in downtown Mexico City."

"Now that the government shutdown is ending, the Republican House speaker has agreed to swear in the Arizona Democrat who was elected in September."

"President Donald Trump has offered U.S. help in the pursuing the cartels, but Sheinbaum has said Mexico will only accept intelligence assistance and never allow U.S. forces on Mexican soil."

"In the 13 months since the inauguration of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, nine Mexican mayors have been murdered. The first eight assassinations seemed to come and go with a mix of horror and helplessness. The ninth, on Nov. 1 in the city of Uruapan, has generated national outrage."

"Federal prosecutors in Mexico arrested another alleged shooter in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, a crime that shocked the country and remains unsolved, even though the confessed killer has been imprisoned for more than 30 years."

"The government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Sunday unveiled plans to fight organized crime and improve security in the violence-ridden state of Michoacan after the brazen public assassination of a local mayor sent shockwaves through the country."

"Republicans are reeling over an apparent erosion of support from Latino voters, a voting bloc that boosted the party in 2024, in Tuesday’s off-year elections."

"Over the last two months, la migra has swept throughout Chicago but has swung its hammer with gusto on Little Village, known as La Villita by residents and considered the Mexican heart of the city."

Two reported incidents of shots fired at Border Patrol agents from Mexico.

"The presence of U.S. troops in Mexico will severely and irreparably undermine Sheinbaum’s counter-narcotics policies, which are netting results. "

"In recent months, Manzo had urgently called for intervention from President Claudia Sheinbaum."

"What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a stomach-churning viral moment after a video captured a drunk man groping the president."

"The wife of a mayor brazenly assassinated during Day of the Dead celebrations in the violence-ridden Mexican state of Michoacan assumed her husband's job on Wednesday, vowing to carry on her husband's crusade against organized crime."

"Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has flatly denied reports that the United States is planning to send troops into Mexico to confront the country’s powerful cartels, noting that she had repeatedly rejected such offers from Donald Trump."

"Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that unilateral U.S. military action inside Mexico won't happen,' even as the U.S. has ramped up its military efforts, including fatal strikes, in Latin America in recent months."

I'm calling bullshit on this one.

"The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send American troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort."