Mexico – Blazingcatfur

North America First Is America First

President Donald Trump has never been shy about identifying the source of America’s manufacturing decline. For decades, policymakers pursued trade policies that rewarded companies for chasing the lowest possible labor costs, hollowing out American industry while enriching geopolitical competitors like China. Whether one agreed with his rhetoric or not, President Trump fundamentally changed the national conversation by insisting that trade should serve American workers, not simply multinational corporations.

That conversation is now entering a new phase.

by Blazingcatfur•August 1, 2026August 1, 2026•0•Canada, Mexico, USA

Tariffs Work: Toyota Moves Mexico Factory to Texas

Donald Trump’s tariffs are bringing jobs from Mexico back to the USA. Toyota is now moving more production for its Tacoma pickup truck from the Baja California (Mexico) location to San Antonio, Texas. This is a win for American workers.

The Tacoma is 2nd only to F-150 in US sales.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2026July 7, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, Mexico, USA

‘Like good Mexicans, we laugh’: the cartoonist drawing humour from Sinaloa’s brutal drug cartels

Spare a thought for the mid-level narco.

What to do with all the bodies? Where to find a corrupt cop worth his salt? And how to catch the eye of that former beauty queen?

Such are the struggles of El Ñacas and El Tacuachi, the two sicarios – cartel gunmen – who are the stars of a cartoon that has been satirising the underworld of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for two decades, even as the reality has darkened by the day.

A snapshot of life in a Narco State.

We in Canada should not be smug in judging our “free trade” partner.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2026July 2, 2026•0•"Transnational Crime", Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Canada, U.S. nowhere near deal as CUSMA deadline approaches: Hoekstra

OTTAWA – With little more than a week before the July 1 deadline to either renew or review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says officials are nowhere near the finish line.

“We’re not anywhere close to announcing any type of a framework or an interim agreement,” Hoekstra told CTV News chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos in a wide-ranging broadcast exclusive interview.

Pete Hoekstra : Canada, U.S. nowhere near deal as CUSMA deadline approaches.

They were close to a great deal in several sectors back in October but Doug Ford ruined that with his ridiculous ad he ran in the U.S.

Ever since then Carney has been trashing them. Who would want to… pic.twitter.com/69nvag1UbN

— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) June 23, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 24, 2026June 24, 2026•0•Canada, Mexico, USA

Trump’s homeland security chief says pressure on Mexican cartels pushing crime to Canadian border

The U.S. crackdown on drug trafficking on the border with Mexico has triggered an increase in criminal activity coming across the border from Canada, according to Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. secretary of homeland security.

Speaking to an audience in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday alongside Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, Mullin said law enforcement officials are seeing an increase in fentanyl trafficking from Canada, something he attributed to U.S. efforts against Mexican cartels at the southern border.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2026June 17, 2026•0•"Transnational Crime", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

North American-made autos must contain at least 50% U.S. content, Trump negotiators tell Mexico

U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiating team is demanding that all North American-made autos contain at least 50 per cent U.S. content, firing the opening salvo in a battle over the future of the pact governing continental trade.

American and Mexican negotiators hunkered down in Mexico City this week to start a review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and the U.S. announced plans for two further rounds of bilateral talks that do not include Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Mexico

Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

DEA administrator Terrance Cole said U.S. law enforcement officials are “very conscious” of fentanyl being manufactured in Canada for export across the border and there have been “significant seizures” of the drug in Canada over the past two months.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico

CIA denies reports of secret cartel war in Mexico

The Central Intelligence Agency vehemently denied reports of its participation in deadly operations against drug cartels in Mexico.

On Tuesday, CNN published a report alleging that the CIA had vastly expanded its operations in Mexico against drug cartels, including getting directly involved in assassinations of cartel figures. The most notable was its alleged facilitation of a car bombing on a busy Mexican highway that killed Francisco “El Payin” Beltran on March 28. CIA spokeswoman Liz Lyons denied the report in strong terms, accusing the outlet of endangering American lives.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2026May 13, 2026•0•CIA, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Mexican man pleads guilty to smuggling migrants into U.S. from Canada

A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to charges of bringing illegal immigrants across the border from Canada into the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice says.

Edgar Sanchez-Solis, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling for commercial advantage and private financial gain, the DOJ said in a press release on Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 10, and will face a penalty of between five and 15 years in prison.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Canada, Mexico, USA

Trump officials believe Canada ‘slow-walking’ trade talks: Quebec CUSMA envoy

Canada needs to act quickly to push back on a growing belief in Washington that it’s dragging its feet on trade talks, according to the Quebec government’s representative in those negotiations.

Louise Blais, who was appointed last month as Quebec’s envoy for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement review, said that “an impression has set in, in D.C. — for right or wrong — that Canada is looking elsewhere, and that we’re slow-walking this.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 7, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexico, USA

Inside Mexican town where girls are ‘sold from moment they’re born’

The pimp sat on a plastic chair in a small room off a dark courtyard as the music from the town’s spring festival blared from outside. He was sweating. This was the first time he had told anyone what had happened here and he was nervous.

He started haltingly. Telling the story of Tenancingo, the small town that is a nerve centre of Mexico’s sex trafficking industry, is dangerous. The padrotes, or pimps, who who have been known to run the town for decades, making millions from selling women and girls across Mexico and the United States, could target anyone who speaks out.

by Blazingcatfur•May 4, 2026May 3, 2026•0•Mexico, WTF?

US charges Mexican state governor with drug trafficking

The United States Justice Department has charged the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state and nine other officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel, it announced on Wednesday.

The Justice Department claimed that Ruben Rocha Moya and others conspired with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the US in exchange for political support and bribes.

The nine others include current and former Mexican officials, some of whom have been accused of having participated in the cartel’s campaign of violence.

by Blazingcatfur•April 30, 2026April 30, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Dozens of Mexican mafia members arrested in California crackdown

More than two dozen members and associates of the Mexican mafia were arrested during an early morning crackdown in southern California, federal authorities said on Thursday.

The FBI and other federal and local agencies executed search and arrest warrants at locations mostly in Orange county, south of Los Angeles, according to the US attorney’s office.

A total of 43 people have been indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion, running an illegal gambling operation and drug trafficking, prosecutors said.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2026April 24, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials and prompted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to say she would investigate whether the operation ran afoul of the country’s national security laws.

The CIA declined to comment.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2026April 21, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’

An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online.

The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido.

“The corrido rings out loud in your homeland; return to your roots,” the AI performer sings. “You don’t need to go far to get ahead. Listen to what you say: Mexican power lies within you.”

Translation – The corrido sounds loud in your land. Return to your roots with #CBPHome: https://usembmx.com/CBPHome2026
Living in or migrating to the U.S. illegally is a crime. #NiLoIntentes #PowerMexicano

El corrido suena fuerte en tu tierra. Regresa a tus raíces con #CBPHome: https://t.co/hZZTihzv5m
Vivir o migrar a EE.UU. de forma ilegal es un delito. #NiLoIntentes #PowerMexicano – Video Generado con IA pic.twitter.com/xweaonyKHK

— Embajada de EE.UU. en México (@USEmbassyMEX) March 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2026March 28, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Mexico, USA