On March 7th, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted representatives of 17 Latin American countries to meet with him in Florida, where he promoted the “Shield of the Americas”, an attempt to get cooperation from Latin American countries to help fight the drug cartels.
Mexico was not represented at the summit, neither Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum nor Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente nor any other Mexican official.
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 13th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump, Florida, Mexican Drug Cartels, Shield of the Americas
Politically, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has been very successful and her MORENA party and its allies have a majority in the Mexican Congress.
But look at what occurred on March 11th. President Sheinbaum’s political reform failed in the Chamber of Deputies (equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives).
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 12th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Arantza Alonso, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican Political Parties, Mexican Politics, Ricardo Monreal
The World Cup is three months away. It’s to be held in three countries (the U.S., Canada and Mexico). In Mexico one of the venues is Zapopan, in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, where the recent violence erupted at the death of El Mencho. So how is the security going to be?
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 7th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion), Guadalajara, Mexican Drug Cartels, World Cup 2026, Zapopan
This article features a photo from the iNaturalistMX website of the Cabezón Mexicano (Pachyramphus major), known in English as the grey-collared becard.
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 6th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Arizona, Belize, Birds, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pachyramphus major, Quintana Roo state, Texas, Wildlife
The Zapotec culture has been in Mexico’s Oaxaca state for 2500 years, and they are still there. There are several Zapotec archaeological sites, the most famous being Monte Alban and Mitla.
Recently, a Zapotec tomb has been discovered which had been sealed for 1400 years. It’s called Tomb #10.
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 5th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Archaeology, INAH, Oaxaca state, Tomb #10, Zapotec Culture
On February 26th, 2026, the Mexican Supreme Court convened 900 kilometers away from Mexico City, in the municipio of Tenejapa in the state of Chiapas.
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 4th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Candelaria in Chiapas, Chiapas, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, Mexican Supreme Court, San Cristobal de las Casas, Tenejapa
TV Azteca is in a financial bind and is entering a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Article published March 3rd, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Grupo Salinas, Mexican Media, Mexican Politics, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, TV Azteca
On February 28th, 2026, the U.S. and Israel initiated air attacks on Iran.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry (the SRE, for Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) issued a communique on the subject.
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Article by Allan Wall, published March 1st, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: Iran, Israel, Mexican Foreign Ministry (SRE)
The February 22nd killing of Nemesio Ruben “el Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, cartel boss of the CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación) provoked a massive retaliation by the cartel.
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Article by Allan Wall, published February 28th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: CJNG, CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion), Claudia Sheinbaum, Guadalajara, Kash Patel, Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug War, Mexican Military, Nemesio Ruben "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, Omar Garcia Harfuch, Ronald D. Johnson, World Cup
Mexico sent five competitors to the 2026 Winter Olympics, but none won a medal.
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Article by Allan Wall, published February 27th, 2026, on Mexico News Report.
Tags: 2026 Winter Olympics, Allan Corona, Brazil, Donovan Carrillo, Federico Gaxiola, Lasse Gaxiola, Norway, Regina Martinez, Sarah Schleper de Gaxiola, Sports, Winter Olympics