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Sheinbaum, in Juárez: defend the homeland. A short meeting on the tarmac.

Plaza de la Mexicanidad. Campos at the airport. CIA agents still between them. Round four is next week.

The Rocket News · Mexico Desk · Ciudad JuárezSeptember 20, 2026 · 4 min read

President Claudia Sheinbaum at the podium, full color, Mexican flag at her shoulder. Wire photograph.

President Claudia Sheinbaum stood in the Plaza de la Mexicanidad in Ciudad Juárez on Saturday and told a border city to remember the cost. Mexico is free, independent, and sovereign, she said. “And it is up to all of us to defend the homeland.” The Mexico desk files a president on the line, not a landscape without her, and a Saturday that was also the national earthquake drill at noon.

She met Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos in private at the Juárez airport — a short session she had said would not be a working table. The CIA agents who died in the state in April are still between them. Campos wanted the Sentinel tower and the 1944 water treaty. Sheinbaum: see her on the tarmac; send the rest to Gobernación. Round four of the trade talks is Sept. 28 and 29 in Washington. No paper yet.

Mexico is a free, independent and sovereign country. And it is up to all of us to defend the homeland.

The Mexico desk files Sunday as it is: a plaza on the border, a governor on the tarmac, and a treaty that is still a call.

Wire and further reading: elpais.com

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