On May 28th the opposition PAN party pulled off a stunt in the Mexican Senate which brought together two ongoing issues relating to crime and security.
Left: Maru Campos, Governor of Chihuahua, Source: flickr.com Right: Ruben Rocha, Governor of Sinaloa (on leave). Source: Presidency of Mexico
On the 28th of May, in the Mexican Senate, 22 senators of the PAN party wore t-shirts reading “Yo con Maru”, meaning “I support Maru” (governor of Chihuahua). They came to the podium, also bringing 67 t-shirts in the color of the ruling MORENA party, which read “Yo con Rocha” meaning “I support Ruben Rocha” (the most prominent indictee).
PAN Senator and coordinator Ricardo Anaya (at the podium) asked “Who would come up here and put on a ‘Yo Con Rocha’ t-shirt?'” and “Seriously, nobody? No senator of MORENA wants to put on the ‘Yo Con Rocha’ t-shirt?” Only two MORENA senators accepted a Rocha t-shirt but nobody put one on.
Did you know that Lupita Nyong’o was actually born in Mexico, and has Mexican citizenship? I guess the name “Lupita” should have tipped us off, right?
Lupita Nyong’o was born in 1983 in Mexico City. Her father, Anyang’ Nyong’o, was a politician from Kenya and at the time a visiting professor in Mexico. Her mother is Dorothy Ogada Buyu. Both her parents were of the Luo ethnicity, and so was Barack Obama Sr., father of U.S. President Barack Obama Jr. (Small world, isn’t it?)
Lupita Amondi Nyong’o Buyu is the way to write her name in Spanish style, with the two surnames.
The future actress was named “Lupita” because they were living in Mexico, though they soon moved back to Kenya. However, when Lupita was 16, she was sent back to Mexico for 7 months (to Taxco, Guerrero), to learn Spanish.
Lupita Nyong’o identifies as Kenyan-Mexican. In 2024 she also became a U.S. citizen, just in time to vote for Kamala Harris.
So she is a citizen of Kenya, Mexico and the United States.
Countries in red are countries in which Lupita Nyong’o is a citizen: U.S., Mexico, Kenya Source: mapchart.net
In the Odyssey movie, Lupita Nyong’o is portraying both Helen of Troy and Helen’s half-sister Clytemnestra.
In an interview with Elle magazine, the actress said that when she accepted the role of Helen of Troy “I really had no idea what The Odyssey was. I was like, ‘Oh, snap, I don’t know the first thing about this.’ So it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education.”
In January of 2017, Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman, one of the two leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was extradited to the United States, and he’s still there, locked up in the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado.
El Chapo’s Extradition, January 19th, 2017 Source: Ted Psahos
Drug cartels are family businesses. On May 26th, 2026, Chapo’s nephew was arrested by the Mexican government, and might wind up getting extradited to the United States.
From that article: “Mexican security forces have captured the nephew of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, delivering another blow to a cartel empire already fracturing from within. The suspect, identified only as Isai ‘N,’ was taken into custody in Sonora, a northern border state that has become a flashpoint in Mexico’s ongoing drug war. U.S. authorities had been seeking him, according to top security official Omar Garcia Harfuch, who announced the arrest on X.”
More from the USA Herald article: “The arrest comes at a turbulent moment for the Sinaloa cartel, once the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world. An internal power struggle has erupted between factions loyal to El Chapo’s family and those aligned with co-founder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, who is himself awaiting trial in the United States. The infighting has turned deadly, spilling violence across border communities on both sides.” [According to the Noroeste newspaper, as of May 25th, 2026, the murder toll in Sinaloa state since the intra-cartel war began Sept. 9th, 2024, is 3,294.] .
“Last month, Mexican soldiers, backed by U.S. intelligence, captured three of El Chapo’s brother’s closest allies. That brother, Aureliano Guzman Loera, known as “El Guano,” remains at large with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head.”
“Meanwhile, the man at the center of it all sits locked away nearly 2,000 miles from his homeland. El Chapo, the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel who twice escaped from Mexican prisons before being extradited to the United States in 2017, is serving a life sentence at the notorious ADX Florence facility in Colorado, widely known as the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies.’ ”
The article doesn’t mention another strike at the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. That’s the U.S. indictment of ten Mexican officials/former officials of the state of Sinaloa. Three are already in U.S. custody. See my recent articles on the topic See here, here, here , here , here , here, here and here.
Mexico City already has plenty of video surveillance cameras, more in fact than any other city in the Western Hemisphere. Mexico City has about 83,000 such cameras, in contrast to 71,000 in New York.
But the new proposal is the use of body cameras for the police.
According to Proceso, on May 5th Mayor Brugada announced that “Very soon…we are going to present a program so that our police of Mexico City wear a camera attached to their uniform, with which we will begin this strategy or this program, with the traffic officers.”
That was on May 5th. Mayor Brugada did not say when this would begin or any other details, but she did say that the objective was that officers would be “transparent”, that it would “increase citizen confidence” and strengthen “the culture of legality. “
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada. (Photo from a different date than her statement in this article) Source: MVS Noticias
Traffic officers in Mexico are notorious for taking small bribes to allow people to get out of traffic fines. A bribe is called a “mordida”, literally a “bite”.
Wouldn’t body cameras, if utilized correctly, cramp the style of both the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker? Or will they find ways to get around it?
The Valley of Mexico is the home of a unique and fascinating creature known as the axolotl. Paradoxically, this animal is critically endangered in its natural habitat but widely common throughout the world.
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a type of salamander native to lakes and wetlands in the Mexico City area.
The name “axolotl” derives from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs and kindred tribes. It means “water monster”.
The size of a mature axolotl ranges from 6 to 18 inches. A length of 9 inches is the most common. Average weight is about 10 and a half ounces. Its life expectancy is 10-15 years.
The axolotl is a carnivore, consuming worms, water bugs and insect larvae, small fish, other salamanders, arthropods such as crayfish, and mollusks. They smell their prey, snap it then suck it into their stomachs.
The axolotl genome is about 10 times the size of the human genome, although the amount of proteins is not that much greater (23,251 vs. about 20,000).
Unlike most other amphibians, the axolotl does not undergo a metamorphosis, as for example when a tadpole changes into a frog. The axolotl lives in the water its whole life, it can breathe outside of water for only a short time. There are rare exceptions but most axolotls do not undergo metamorphosis.
Mexico City was built on a complex of lakes. Over the centuries the lakes have mostly been filled up by urbanization. Therefore, there aren’t many axolotls left in their native habitat.
Valley of Mexico in 1519. Most of it’s filled in by now. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Besides the loss of their habitat, the axolotl population is also threatened by the presence of invasive fish species (tilapia and carp) which eat young axolotls and compete for the same food. Plus, pollution of the water is a problem.
It’s been estimated that there are somewhere between only 50 and 1000 axolotls left in much-reduced lakes Xochimilco and Chalco in southern Mexico City, also in an artificial lake at Chapultepec Park.
Outside of its native area, however, there are my axolotls all over the world: in aquariums, zoos, laboratories and belonging to private collectors, as it is an exotic pet. The first axolotls exported from Mexico were in 1863, when 34 live specimens were sent to Paris. Since then, genetic differences have developed between the wild and captive axolotls. It’s estimated that there are up to a million captive axolotls.
Axolotls in Vancouver Aquarium. Source: ZeWrestler
One fascinating thing about the axolotl is it can regenerate body parts and tissues. Here’s a photo of an axolotl regrowing a front limb:
Here’s a current Mexican 50-peso bill. The front (left side below) portrays the foundation of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1325. The back (right side) portrays an axolotl in Xochimilco. That bill received the “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2021 from the International Bank Note Society.
And, the axolotl has been chosen as the mascot for Mexico City during the upcoming World Cup. Here is Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada holding up a stuffed axolotl.
In Mexico City, there is a one-acre American cemetery, the Mexico City National Cemetery, managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission. It is open to the public and is the oldest known cemetery for fallen American soldiers outside the United States.
Here is what it says about it on the ABMC website:
“The Mexico City National Cemetery was established in 1851 by Congress to gather the American dead of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) that lay in the nearby fields and to provide burial space for Americans that died in the vicinity.”
“The remains were gathered in 1851 and buried in a common grave at this cemetery. They were not identified so they are classified as unknown soldiers. A small monument marks the common grave of 750 unidentified American dead of the War of 1847. Inscribed on the monument are the words:”
“To the honored memory of 750 Americans known but to God whose bones collected by their country’s order are here buried.”
“In this one-acre area are also placed the remains of 813 Americans and others in wall crypts on either side of the cemetery. The cemetery was closed to further burials in 1923.”
“Buried at the Mexico City National Cemetery are American servicemen who served during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Civil War and Spanish American War.”
The MORENA party is the most powerful party in Mexico. The president is of that party, the Congress is run by that party, the judiciary is dominated by MORENA.
It’s even more amazing when you realize that MORENA has only existed as a political party since 2014. Its founder is none other than Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, AMLO, the previous president. (See The Astonishing Growth and Power of Mexico’s MORENA Party).
“We are Millions. Join. MORENA – the Hope of Mexico.” Source: MORENA Facebook
And, according to Dr. Simon Levy, MORENA is also flexing its political muscles in the United States of America.
Simon Levy is a former MORENA party man himself, serving from 2018 t0 2019 as Mexico’s Undersecretary of Planning and Tourism Policy, in AMLO’s presidential administration.
Dr. Levy is currently a postdoctoral researcher in data science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a critic of MORENA.
As reported by the Mexico Daily Post, “Simon Levy and his team claim to have infiltrated every cell, committee, and group of Morena in the United States with their own informants. They recorded them. They followed them. And they uncovered Morena’s entire financial operation within the U.S…Two findings that Washington can no longer ignore: US$162 million. This is what Morena is investing to defeat Donald Trump in the 2026 midterms.”
The U.S. midterms are scheduled for November 3rd, 2026. All 435 members of Congress are up for election, as are 35 of the 100 senators. The configuration of Congress has a lot to do with what President Donald Trump’s presidency from 2027 to 2029 would look like.
In addition there are elections for governors and other state and local offices on November 3rd.
What Dr. Levy is saying is that Mexico’s MORENA party is involved in the U.S. midterm elections as well, working against Trump’s Republican party. Now some may be pro-Republican, others anti-Republican. But shouldn’t it be American voters who make the decisions for the midterms?
Back to the Mexico Daily Post article: ‘Two findings that Washington can no longer ignore: US$162 million. This is what Morena is investing to defeat Donald Trump in the 2026 midterms. This is equivalent to 54% of MAGA Inc.’s total budget (US$300 million)… The research uncovered operations in 35 counties across 12 states. Eight main committees, five subcommittees in Los Angeles alone, and approximately 45 operational cells.”
This is interesting, and should be looked into. To learn more about Dr. Levy and his research, click here, here , and here.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin arrived for a visit to Mexico on May 21st.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on her Twitter X account that “We received at the National Palace the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States, Markwayne Mullin. We agreed to continue collaborating jointly within the framework of respect between our countries.”
May 18th-28th is Africa Week in Mexico. According to a press release from the SRE (Mexican Foreign Ministry) on the first day of Africa Week, Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco “highlighted Mexico’s commitment to strengthening its political, economic, academic, and cultural ties with Africa”.
Robert Djerou Ly (Ambassador of Ivory Coast to Mexico), Mexican Foreign Minister Velasco, Mexican Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs María Teresa Mercado Pérez Source: Government of Mexico
Don’t worry, Chancellor Velasco. There is already a strong Mexican economic link with Africa, managed by the major Mexican drug cartels, which already have their claws in the continent of Africa.
According to Dagvin Anderson, Supreme Commanding General of US Africa Command (USAFRICOM), “Terrorist groups based in Africa are increasingly funded by Mexican cartels. In South Africa, we dismantled the largest laboratory, and it had members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The Jalisco New Generation is also involved with methamphetamine!”
General Dagvin Anderson, U.S. Air Force. Supreme Commanding General of US Africa Command Source: United States Africa Command
From Nigeria: “Nigeria’s anti-drugs agency said on Wednesday [May 20] it had uncovered what it described as the country’s largest-ever industrial-scale meth lab in a southwestern remote forest and arrested nine suspects, including three Mexican nationals.
“The raid on a remote farm revealed an ‘industrial-scale clandestine laboratory, the biggest ever discovered in Nigeria hidden in a remote forest in Ogun state [SW Nigeria],’ the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said in a statement.
“The operation, which also included raids on two residential properties in an upscale Lagos neighbourhood, recovered chemicals worth $362,922,000, including crystal meth, it added.”
On the other side of Africa, “Mozambique has long been a key transit point for the trafficking of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and opioids, but recent arrests and government data show that the drug business is expanding alongside rising concerns of domestic addiction problems.“
“After months of investigating evidence and rumors of international cartel activity and at least two hidden drug labs in the nation’s capital, police arrested three men — a Mozambican and two Mexican nationals — during an April 11 anti-drug-trafficking operation at Maputo International Airport.”
“ ‘There is strong evidence linking the three detainees to international drug trafficking, document forgery and criminal association,’ the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) said in an April 16 statement. ‘The two Mexicans were identified as members of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and intended to establish themselves in the national territory, specifically in Matutuine district, Maputo province.’ ”
The aforementioned General Anderson told lawmakers of the United States House Armed Services Committee that “The convergence of terrorism and narco-trafficking further exacerbates these threats. African-based terror groups are financed to an increasing degree by drug cartels, expanding those terror group’s reach and lethality. This convergence not only destabilises the region but also poses a direct threat to US national security interests.”
“Since 2024, we have seen an increased flow of drugs emanating from the Americas through Africa into Europe, with a nearly sixfold increase of cocaine flowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Additionally, Mexican, Venezuelan, and Caribbean cartels seek to franchise industrial-scale drug production on the continent by exporting lab expertise to Africa and using Africa as a transshipment point to generate revenue.”
“Both the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel have established methamphetamine production labs in Africa to exploit an expanding market in permissive regions. Mexican cartel members were arrested during raids in several African countries at some of the largest labs ever discovered.”
The Sinaloa Ten are ten officials or former officials of the state of Sinaloa under indictment by a U.S. federal court for collusion with the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa drug cartel. (Click here for the list).
As of my latest previous article on the topic, there were two of the ten (Gerardo Merida Sanchez and Enrique Diaz Vega) in U.S. custody.
Another member of the Sinaloa Ten, Enrique Inzunza Cazarez, a sitting senator in the Mexican Federal Congress and former Secretary General for Sinaloa, is now in U.S. custody. That brings the total in U.S. custody to 3 out of 10.
From the New York Daily Post: “Sinaloa Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazárez, who is facing drug trafficking and weapon charges, was taken into custody in San Diego by the Drug Enforcement Administration, multiple Mexican news outlets reported on Saturday [May 16].”
Think about it. Of the Sinaloa Ten, 3 are now in U.S. custody.
What inside information do you think they are sharing with U.S. interrogators?
What do you think the 7 indictees still not in U.S. custody are thinking?
_(53532289710)_(cropped2).jpg){kind=link}
_2.jpg){kind=link}
.svg){kind=link}
.svg){kind=link}