Overview
- Mexico presented a security report saying homicidios dolosos fell 49% from September 2024 to May 2026 while officials also highlighted seizures, lab dismantlings and the arrest of tens of thousands of suspects.
- Violence and political strain persist in Mexican hotspots such as Sinaloa and Guerrero, and teachers’ protests in Mexico City have shut major roads and demanded accountability for recent attacks on demonstrators.
- In Peru the government approved a temporary S/4 per-gallon diesel subsidy and announced a S/150 million fund for rice producers but transport and farming leaders say they will wait for the formal decrees and rules before ending blockades.
- Bolivia has faced 28 days of road blockades that the government is negotiating through church-mediated talks while keeping the option of declaring a state of exception on the table if talks fail.
- Law-enforcement actions and judicial moves continue across the region with arrests of alleged criminal networks and implicated officers in Peru’s gold-lingot probe, preventive detention in a near-15 kg cocaine case in La Banda, a homicide trial of ex-policeman Juan Sebastián Muro in Mar del Plata, and four arrests after a fatal shooting in Rosario, Argentina.