The sale
Washington approved a possible sale. The helicopter is in Lithuania.
Reuters, Friday night: a potential sale of UH-60M Black Hawks to Mexico, estimated at $1.08 billion. Sikorsky would build them. The wire did not say how many.
The Rocket News · Mexico Desk · WashingtonNovember 7, 2026 · 3 min read
WASHINGTON — Reuters reported Friday night that the State Department had approved a potential sale of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Mexico, estimated at $1.08 billion. The principal contractor is Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company. Reuters did not say how many aircraft. This desk does not print a number that was not in that dispatch. An approval of a possible sale is not a delivery.
Friday’s Mexico note, the hens culled in Umán, stays filed. This is Saturday’s note.
The photograph is not Mexico and not Friday. It is a UH-60M over Akmenynai, Lithuania, on May 6, 2026, during the Brave Griffin exercise near the Suwałki gap. Soldiers are on ropes under the aircraft. Ints Kalnins, Reuters, file.
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Yucatán
The hens in Umán were culled. The wire carried no photograph of the farm.
Reuters, Friday: Mexico reported H5N1 in 225,860 laying hens in Umán, Yucatán. The first poultry outbreak in more than two years. All of the birds were culled. No human case is in the dispatch.
Mexico
Trudy is a tropical storm, and the warnings are down.
At 8 a.m. Mountain time the center was about 190 miles west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, with winds near 60 mph. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect. The National Hurricane Center said it should become post-tropical by early Tuesday.
Mexico
Hurricane Trudy is 150 miles west of Manzanillo.
At 5 a.m. Mountain time the center was still offshore, with winds near 105 mph, moving northwest at 10 mph. A hurricane warning runs from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes. Mexico dropped the warnings south of Manzanillo.