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Mexico City-Querétaro-GDL train line gets underway

This week, President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro train line, marking the first phase of a project that will eventually extend passenger rail service to Guadalajara and two U.S. border locations: Nogales and Nuevo Laredo.


New security plan targets murder rate reduction

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Security and Citizen Protection Minister Omar García Harfuch teamed up this week to outline the federal government’s new National Security Strategy, which has the chief aim of reducing the 200,000 homicides that cast a dark shadow over former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term.

The awkward family connections of Mexico’s new security chief

Omar García Harfuch, the new head of Mexico’s Security and Citizen Protection Ministry (SSPC), represents the third generation of a Jalisco family with deep—and controversial—ties to national law enforcement and defense, particularly during the height of the 70-year reign of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).