A tragic vehicle crash exposed a covert counter-narcotics operation riddled with irregularities. In mid-April, a pickup truck plunged off a mountain road in the Sierra of Chihuahua in Mexico, killing its four occupants. Two of them were officials from the Chihuahua Attorney General’s office, and the others, as was later confirmed, were undercover CIA agents. The case continues to unfold in new chapters, and over the weekend former Chihuahua prosecutor César Jáuregui was arrested, accused of treason for allowing — without authorization from the federal government — armed foreign officials to take part in sensitive security operations on Mexican soil.

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The six-year term of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador ended in September 2024 amid a surge of violence in the state of Sinaloa — a crisis he blamed on the United States. Just a few months earlier, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the longtime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, had been captured by U.S. authorities under murky circumstances.

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Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, addressed a massive crowd this Sunday at the emblematic Zócalo square in Mexico City, just a few days before the start of her third year in office. On the eve of the 2027 midterm elections, the president delivered a speech steeped in historical references to Mexico’s struggles for independence and sovereignty, and an allusion to growing pressures from the United States under the guise of fighting “narcoterrorism.”

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