Overview
- Union filings and a federal labor tribunal record that threats from organized crime at the Camino Rojo site were reported to national defense and navy officials, yet the requested protection was not provided.
- Case documents show the tribunal also asked the Zacatecas state public security ministry to assign 10 officers for a November 2024 vote, and the agency replied it lacked enough personnel.
- A USMCA rapid‑response panel noted a months‑long climate of intimidation around the 2024 union vote, and operator Orla Mining has acknowledged its internal controls may not be enough to prevent criminal infiltration.
- Peru’s Escuadrón Verde broke up a Pamplona Alta drug point, seizing more than 2,000 ready‑for‑sale packets; a 60‑year‑old woman jumped from a second floor to evade arrest, and officers detained a man known as “Huacatay.”
- Authorities carried out high‑impact operations elsewhere, including 27 property searches in Peru tied to a probe of hires during José Jerí’s tenure and three Mexico City raids that arrested five “Los Mancilla” suspects and seized about 50 tonnes of auto parts.