Overview
- The U.S. ambassador in Mexico, Ronald Johnson, confirmed that two U.S. agents died in an incident in Chihuahua, intensifying questions about foreign activity on Mexican territory.
- An investigation by Proceso alleged that a CIA elite unit known as Ground Branch reactivated covert, lethal tactics inside Mexico, citing the precision explosive killing of Francisco Beltrán on the México‑Pachuca highway as indicative evidence.
- Chihuahua’s attorney general, César Jáuregui, resigned after the scandal and Governor Maru Campos announced a new Unidad Especializada to probe the events, drawing criticism because it reports to her administration.
- Campos declined a Senate request to explain the case, while Morena’s new national leader, Ariadna Montiel, called mass protests in Chihuahua against alleged CIA involvement in state security operations.
- Movimiento Ciudadano senator Clemente Castañeda urged President Claudia Sheinbaum and the federal Attorney General’s Office to open a probe and pressed for action regarding Sinaloa’s governor-on-leave Rubén Rocha Moya, arguing Mexico should not downplay signs of U.S. intervention.