Key Points —Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted 334 to 127 on Tuesday, April 21, to install Arturo Manuel Chávez López, Frida Denisse Gómez Puga and Blanca Yassahara Cruz García as electoral councillors at the National Electoral Institute for a nine-year term running to 2035. —Chávez López served as regulation and public-policy adviser to Claudia Sheinbaum […]

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It wasn’t the first time he’d stayed in a hotel near the ruins and spent the day planning something big and sinister at the pyramids, something that in his mind resembled those school or church shootings so common in the United States. Last Sunday he did it again. He arrived by bus from the north of Mexico City, rented a room in a nearby hotel, and on Monday morning entered the Teotihuacán archaeological site in the State of Mexico. For his big day, he chose to wear black pants and a plaid shirt. In his backpack, he put some sheets of paper on which he had handwritten what he was about to do with an old revolver and 42 rounds of .38 caliber ammunition.

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Medellín, Colombia – Hundreds of Mexican human rights groups presented an open letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Monday calling for action to combat forced disappearances.

The letter was signed by over 100 collectives representing disappeared people from Mexico and Central America, over 300 families of the missing, and various civil society organizations, shelters, and individuals. 

According to the NGO Foundation for Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law (FJEDD), one of the signatories of the open letter, over 132,000 people are classed as missing in Mexico. 

“Mexico requires independent mechanisms to establish the truth, locate the disappeared, conduct serious investigations and combat impunity, under the auspices of the United Nations,” said the FJEDD following their meeting with Türk.

They also called on the High Commissioner to raise the issue in his meeting with president Claudia Sheinbaum, and to urge the Mexican state to help affected families “achieve truth, justice, and reparations.”

The letter also requested that Türk back the recent decision by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) to refer the crisis to the General Assembly, the organization’s highest authority. 

When taking the “exceptional step” on April 2 to request that the situation be referred to the General Assembly, the CED also said that the 72,000 unidentified human remains found in 4,500 covert graves suggested the crisis could likely amount to crimes against humanity, something Mexico has since roundly rejected. 

President of the CED, Juan Albán-Alencastro, said that “the magnitude, the pattern of the attacks and the fact that they are directed against the civilian population,” substantiated the view that the crisis meets the definition of crimes against humanity. 

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs repudiated the decision in a press release that argued that the UN had failed to recognize recent advances against the issue. President Sheinbaum also dismissed the CED’s claims, arguing that the data used was extrapolated and didn’t represent Mexico’s current situation. 

In anticipation of her meeting with Türk this Wednesday, Sheinbaum also said that the official had come “to learn about the human rights system in Mexico, not just the issue of disappearances.”

Featured image: Maritza Ríos / Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México.

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Mexico to investigate possible breach of its constitution and assess US’s role in anti-drug operation near Chihuahua

Mexico has launched an investigation into a possible breach of its constitution as it was reported that two US embassy officials who died in a car accident while returning from a raid on a drug lab with local officials in the border state of Chihuahua were CIA operatives.

The accident happened early on Sunday, as the officials were driving back from the scene of the raid. Their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged down a 200 metre ravine in the mountains near Chihuahua’s border with the state of Sinaloa.

Key Points — Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 Industrial Labor Report finds Mexico industrial construction has entered a six-quarter rebalancing phase, with supply outpacing absorption and developers extending delivery timelines in border markets. — Mexico City now commands the country’s highest industrial wages at US$4.91 per hour for production and US$4.75 for warehouse roles — 35% […]

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Key Points — NOAA’s April 2026 outlook gives a 61% probability of El Niño emergence in the May-July window rising to 62% for June-August, with a 1-in-3 chance the event classifies as “strong” during October-December 2026. — A moderate-to-strong event would cut Andean GDP by 0.6-1.7 percentage points, threaten 50% of LATAM’s hydro-dependent electricity supply, […]

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Key Points — A gunman identified as Julio César Jasso Ramírez, 27, opened fire around noon Monday on the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán, killing a Canadian woman and wounding 13 other tourists before taking his own life, according to the Fiscalía General del Estado de México. — The Fiscalía General de la República […]

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Key Points — Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed Monday that formal USMCA review negotiations will begin the week of May 25, following a full day of preparatory meetings between US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City. — The May 25 start positions the two governments to deliver “substantive progress” […]

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