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Cancellation due to weather conditions

Delta commercial flight 2973, where President Claudia Sheinbaum would travel to New York, was canceled Saturday afternoon at the Cancun Airport. Originally scheduled at 3:40 p.m., it had a first delay until 5:25 p.m. before the final suspension.

According to airport authorities, the cancellation responds to adverse weather conditions and poor air quality in New York, derived from recent forest fires.

Sheinbaum confirms attendance

Despite the setback, Sheinbaum published a video on his social networks confirming his presence in the World Cup final this Sunday at the New York-New Jersey Stadium. In the message, he highlighted the diplomatic nature of his trip: he will attend at the invitation of President Donald Trump and will coincide with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The president reiterated that the meeting of the three heads of state reflects the coordination between the co-organizing nations of the tournament, where Spain and Argentina will compete in the championship.

So far, the Presidency has not reported whether Sheinbaum will use an alternative commercial route or an armed forces aircraft. The official delegation maintains the return to Mexico City for Monday.

Fuel smuggling from the United States to Mexico, which grew during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a clear epicenter: Tamaulipas. At its customs, sailors and soldiers were corrupted, charging millions for allowing millions of liters to pass through. Sergio Carmona, The king of huachicol, and also Roberto Blanco Cantú, The lord of the ships, a fugitive from justice, were originally from Tamaulipas. The Metros, a faction of the Gulf Cartel now linked to the CJNG, operate from there. In that entity, prosecutor Ernesto Vásquez Reyna was killed after a fuel seizure. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reported $7 billion in suspicious activity in the last year.

The criminal network at customs

A EL PAÍS database, combining confidential reports and foreign trade statistics, reveals that of the 2.8 billion liters of lubricants imported since 2019, almost 2,700 entered through the customs of Tampico, Matamoros, Altamira, Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Reynosa. In March 2025, the oil tanker Challenge Procyon arrived in Tampico with alleged additives; It was actually transporting fuel. The search led to the seizure of 10 million liters of diesel, 192 containers and 32 vehicles. This case uncovered a conspiracy that united high-ranking sailors, customs officials and businessmen, managing to smuggle at least 564 million liters in 69 ships since 2023. The Prosecutor’s Office points to Fernando and Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, political nephews of former Secretary of the Navy José Rafael Ojeda Durán, as ringleaders.

Collaborators and leaks

Mefra Fletes, a company that distributes trafficked fuel, had Roberto Blanco Cantú as a partner since 2019. One of his pipes took the police from the Challenge Procyon to a property in Altamira where they found the millions of liters. Blanco Cantú has been a fugitive since September 2025, when another arrest warrant was issued against eight people linked to that firm. In addition, three high-ranking soldiers are fugitives accused of allowing, from Matamoros customs, the smuggling of 144 million liters between June 2024 and July 2025. Internal documents from Sedena, leaked in the Guacamaya Leaks, indicate that the Government had information about these operations for more than five years.

US sanctions and huachicol in reverse

In August 2025, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two Mexicans and nine companies for fuel smuggling. He pointed to Tamaulipas, along with Nuevo León and Coahuila, as entry points. At the same time, in a trial in the US, tycoon James Jensen is accused of a huachicol in reverse: introducing crude oil stolen from Pemex from Mexico. The star witness, Luis Ariel Rivera, revealed links to the CJNG and bribery at customs. The case shows that huachicol is a shared crisis between Mexico and the United States, with multimillion-dollar losses for both countries.

New findings in Cubiri de Portelas

The search leader Ceci Flores, founder of the Mothers Searchers of Sonora collective, returned to excavate a grave in the municipality of Cubiri de Portelas, Sinaloa, after she assured that the State Prosecutor’s Office did not carry out its work correctly. In a video broadcast on social networks, the activist showed that, although the authorities had already processed the place, skeletal remains continued to appear.

Flores reported that, along with other searching mothers, she located parts of at least two more people. In the images you can see a searcher with gloves and a shovel removing soil while extracting new fragments in broad daylight.

Omission and revictimization

The activist, who since 2015 has been searching for her son Alejandro Guadalupe Islas Flores, denounced that the work that would correspond to the authorities should be done by the families:

“for the love of those we miss at home.”

He added that the total amount of remains is still unknown until the exhumation is completed.

On July 6, Ceci Flores had already accused revictimization by personnel of the Sinaloa Search Commission, after the initial discovery at that same site. He pointed out that they minimized their work by stating, without support, that the remains found belonged to an animal.

This new discovery reopens the demand of search mothers for an exhaustive and transparent investigation, while the number of missing people in Mexico continues to increase.