Overview
- After two days of road blockades across 19 Mexican states, President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly denied prosecuting protest leaders, contrasting with Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez’s earlier warnings of legal action.
- Judicial authorities ordered preventive detention for Jaciel “El Pelón” Herrera, accused of extortion and bribery after his arrest in Uruapan; prosecutors did not present evidence in the initial hearing linking him to the mayor’s killing.
- Mexican federal forces reported major seizures in Culiacán and other states, disabling clandestine meth operations and confiscating precursor chemicals and weapons with an estimated impact exceeding 500 million pesos.
- Peru’s Congressional Ethics Committee issued a public written admonition to lawmaker Susel Paredes, and the judiciary rejected José Luna Gálvez’s tutela, keeping criminal accusations for alleged organized crime and bribery on track with a control hearing set for December 19.
- In Argentina, a 21-year-old was charged as coauthor of three attempted homicides in a Tablada shooting and seven others were accused of concealment, while a separate petition sought a political trial of Tucumán’s chief prosecutor Edmundo Jiménez.