Mexico
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 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
Filed under Mexico
Keep reading
Mexico
Mexico: half-mast at 7:19. Eighty million phones at noon.
First Saturday drill. A 7.7 for the center. 23,000 speakers. The Zócalo already lowered the flag.
Mexico
From Irapuato: the T-MEC is not gone. The tariffs ate the original idea.
Mañanera in Guanajuato. She respects Carney. Security was not on the call. Twenty-two times.
Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
Mexico
Ebrard: ahí va. Sheinbaum has not said. The talks slipped a week.
Trump wants a signing before November. Ebrard: that is his view. WSJ: Sept. 28–29.
Video · Los Presidenciables mx