This news report highlights systemic political corruption in Mexico, featuring multiple interconnected scandals including teacher strikes in Mexico City and Oaxaca, the resignation of Morena party official Andrés Manuel López Beltrán amid narco-politics accusations, the Sinaloa cartel's influence over state governments, and the harassment of a government employee by a former mayor. The report illustrates how political immunity, cartel connections, and institutional failures create a cycle of corruption that undermines democratic governance and public trust in Mexican institutions.
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Noticias con Nacho Lozano | Programa completo del 25 de mayo de 2026Added:
[music] Good night. What a start to the week! A lot of political activity, the mess in Sinaloa, the mess in Chihuahua, and changes in Morena, but also messy clashes in the streets of the historic center. I ask because that's how the National Coordinator of Education Workers tried to enter the heart of Mexico City to begin an indefinite strike. The mobilization was led by section 22 in the morning. The teachers arrived downtown with the idea of setting up a protest camp [music] in the Zócalo, 17 days before the World Cup and they continue to threaten, they continue to put the federal government in a bind.
However, they were stopped, surrounded by hundreds of police officers who prevented their advance. This led to confrontations between the two sides.
After a series of pushes, shoves and smoke, the police arrested the teachers. Let's remember, it's important, there are 17 days until the start of the World Cup and work is already underway in the Plaza de la Constitución to install screens for those who want to follow the matches. You can see and feel the strength of the people.
They already threatened that the ball won't roll at the World Cup. Faced with the Mexico City government's refusal to let them pass, the coordinator decided to set up their protest camp on 5 de Mayo Street. The call for a national strike is for next Monday, June 1st. More sections are expected to arrive in Mexico City.
The federal government is in check, Mexico City is in check. The coordinator assures that if there is no solution, they repeat, the ball will not roll. In Oaxaca, the state capital. The teachers also marched towards the city center.
They set up a protest camp that occupies more than 30 streets.
Classes were suspended indefinitely at 12,000 schools across the state starting at 8 a.m. But the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Public Education swear up and down that there is a solution, that there can be dialogue. What do you think? What do you think? They insist that things will be sorted out before the World Cup and that there is a willingness to engage in dialogue with the coordinator to reach agreements. The teachers are demanding a meeting directly, not with the Secretary of the Interior, not with the Secretary of Public Education, [music] with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. And while they remain on May 5th in the historic center, more teachers are coming.
We are calm, working for Sinaloa, nothing is going to happen. She already talked to the neighbor. I have nothing more to add than what we already said on Twitter.
Damn dog. I know they are doing their job and I appreciate it, but I deeply regret that they have been used to harm the state of Chihuahua.
I'll start with today's news. Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, one of the sons of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is leaving his position as secretary of organization for Morena. The party founded by his father announced his departure through a document shared on his social networks in which he revealed [music] that he wants to be a federal deputy. And the questions begin: what does he want immunity for? Why does he want immunity?
Why is he leaving? Yes, there are movements within Morena.
Luisa María, the mayor, has already left; the president took her on as legal advisor.
They said he was next, and today it came true. She leaves this organizational secretary position and announces that she wants immunity. He is seeking a popular election in the state of Tabasco to reach San Lázaro. Furthermore, he boasted of his achievements in the position, such as increasing Morena's membership to 10 million new members and delivering credentials to 7 million of them. One of these, by the way, was shown off by both Rubén Rocha and the governor on leave from Sinaloa, with his membership card. And who would have thought today Rubén Rochamoya would be striking at the heart of that party amidst accusations of narco-politics, amidst accusations of having ties to organized crime, and with this disaster in the state of Sinaloa, delivering a resounding blow to the federal government, to this administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum, and of course to Morena, with all the repercussions we have already seen in these weeks. The reaction of the national president of Morena, Ariana Montiel, confirming that she received the letter of resignation and thanking López Beltrán for his work in strengthening the militant base of her movement. Furthermore, he celebrated this new stage in which he wishes her the greatest success in seeking this position in the federal legislature. The opposition says that this change of direction in Andrés López Beltrán's career is aimed at protecting him from parliamentary immunity after scandals like these. My name is Andrés [music] Manuel López Beltrán and my greatest pride is to share a name with the best president this country has ever had.
Last year, Andrés Manuel López Beltrán complained that the opposition was referring to him as Andy. He argued that during the Durango elections in 2025, where PAN and PRI retained important municipalities [music], he should use his nickname and not his last name. It was a strategy to weaken the party his father founded.
Calling me Andy is not meant to diminish that.
Clear.
Eh, to take away that legacy, to take away that name.
Andrés Manuel is the second son of former president López Obrador. Although she has been involved with the Morena party behind the scenes. In September 2024 he began his public career as the organizing secretary of Morena, a position he held until today. Although his first experience with real politics lasted a year and 7 months, he was not spared from scandals.
A month after the election in Durango, journalist Claudio Ochoa published images of López Beltrán at the Ocura Hotel in Japan, a five- star hotel, along with the current federal deputy and former head of the staff of former Mexican President Daniel Azaf. one of his closest friends. Days later, the journalist shared more images of Andrés Manuel strolling through Tokyo, after, according to the journalist, leaving the Prada store.
Days later, López Beltrán responded that he traveled on commercial airlines, paid 75,500 pesos a day for a hotel with breakfast out of his own pocket, and took a vacation after enduring grueling workdays in the capital. During the closing of a tour that covered 32 states, López Beltrán acknowledged his love for Mexico City.
This city gave us everything and we owe it absolutely everything. That is why I will dedicate my life to it and always fight for its well-being, but above all for the poorest, because as we were always taught, love is repaid with love. Long live Mexico City!
Opinion columns considered that statement an insinuation to follow in his father's political footsteps and seek the leadership of the government of Mexico City. Today it seems that the urgency is different.
Probably the strongest criticism is his network of friends who have been inside or very close to the 4T governments.
Among his childhood and business friends is Amilcar Olana Aparicio, who supplied medicines and ballast for the Mayan and Interoceanic trains.
Alejandro Calderón Alipi, who was the national coordinator of the supply of medicines and is the current health secretary of Tabasco, Alejandro Castro Jiménez Labora and Diego and Santiago Jiménez Labora Prieto, whose companies obtained awards of works with contracts worth millions or Daniel Asaf Manjarrz, identified as an intermediary between businessmen and governments.
That's in Morena, in Chihuahua, the other mess involves the PAN governor, Maru Campos. On Saturday, the Attorney General's Office summoned the governor of Chihuahua to appear regarding the operation that they have been unable to clarify. Were there CIA agents with the president's knowledge or not? Were there or were there not CIA operations in that state? This is what a notification office from the Public Ministry manager, directed to me, was told over the weekend by the PAN member. Here I am, of course, facing the music and receiving it.
I will have to appear before the Attorney General's Office, even though I, a public servant, have constitutional immunity. Rubén Rocha has not been asked to appear, has he?
Neither has any other governor in this country.
No, but things changed hours later.
The PAN governor said, "They haven't summoned the Morena representative from Sinaloa."
Wait. Hours later came the summons. But before that, the governor of Chihuahua said this about what she thought about being summoned to the prosecutor's office. Again. Here's Morena's double standard. I regret that Morena is using the institutions to harass, to carry out this political persecution against a person who is doing things well.
Well, there are his collaborators whispering to him what he has to say in front of the cameras.
After this, everyone began to wonder, just like the governor of Chihuahua, why she had been summoned and not the eight officials and former officials accused by the United States of having links to the Sinaloa cartel, most of whom are from Morena, in a state governed by Morena, in a state where Governor Rubén Rochamoya has these accusations on his shoulders. Not even two hours had passed. The Attorney General's Office did this to Rubén Rocha Moya, but also to Senator Enrique Inzunza, the one who has not relinquished his immunity, the one who has not relinquished the protection afforded by being a senator for Morena. The same goes for other officials identified by the United States as having these same ties, [music] as former Secretary of Public Security, Gerardo Mérida, and former Secretary of Finance under Rubén Rocha Moya, Enrique Díaz, will recall, have already surrendered to the karaoke [music] at the White House, they have already surrendered to the United States to sing whatever they have to sing and take advantage of whatever they have to take advantage of. Following this announcement, Rocha reappeared on social media after 22 days. On his X account, he confirmed that he received the summons from the prosecutor's office and said that he has nothing to fear and that he will attend to the [music] requirement with his head held high. Insulsa also appeared on his social media, saying that he will promptly attend the summons, that he will be his own lawyer, that he will not hide behind his immunity, but he will not relinquish it, that he will not hide behind his immunity, but he will not renounce it, he will not ask for leave and he finished by alluding to national sovereignty. The mayor of Culiacán, Juan de Dios Gámez, who is currently on leave, also said that he will appear and that he has always acted legally. This morning the president denied that there are any charges against the two governors, the PAN member and the MORENA member, who were summoned to testify before the prosecutor's office. The president says they are both going as witnesses.
But I'm going back to Sinaloa, I'm going back to Morena, I'm going back to the scandals that I've been presenting to you night after night these past months [music].
For example, they never summoned the former governor of Tabasco, former Secretary of the Interior and now senator Adán Augusto López to testify after the undersecretary of security, Hernán Bermúdez, was arrested last year in Paraguay. He is identified as the leader of the "sweeper cartel" and Don Augusto López was the governor at that time. Over the weekend it was revealed that the Morena senator was in poor health, and immediately afterwards look at the peace of mind that immunity provides, and look at the peace of mind that comes from not being called to testify before the Attorney General's Office for being a Morena senator. He went for a run, very well escorted, along Paseo de la Reforma.
And here I have been telling you for almost a month about the accusations against these officials in Sinaloa.
Now, a mother who works for the government has filed a criminal complaint against one of them. She spoke exclusively with my colleague Mónica Romero about what she claims Juan de Dios Gámez, the former mayor of Culiacán, has done to her during all this time.
All the threats and all the visits that were made to my house, that were made to my work, everything always came in the name of Juan de Dios Gámes Mendivi. Since 2021, Noemí Rivera, an employee of the Ministry of Welfare in Sinaloa and mother of two children with cerebral palsy, lived a nightmare of sexual and workplace harassment at the hands of the former mayor of Culiacán, Juan de Dios Gámes Mendil, now accused by the United States of being a drug trafficker.
He told Imagen Noticias de la noche how he reported it to the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office. The harassment began with her immediate boss, Antonio Aguilar Gómez, when one of her children had an emergency and she had to go to the hospital. Gómez offered to take her, but on the way he touched her breast and her crotch. He tells me that I was already grown up, that I already had children, that if I didn't know what it was like to have sex, why was I being scared?
Noemí jumped out of the moving car and asked for help from casino employees.
The next day I didn't show up for work until the following day, and I approached Juan de Dios Gámez Mendivil, who at that time was the delegate of the secretariat, and I told him what had happened with Antonio, and his response was, "Lift up your blouse to see if it's true that you have such beautiful breasts." As Antonio says, Noemí was astonished. I'm telling you, I was going to report them. He came up to me in a mocking way and told me yes, go ahead, go and report him, that what could a complaint from me [music] do to him when he had what he had.
Before becoming mayor of Culiacán, Gámes Mendíbil was a delegate of the Secretariat of Programs for Development. Noemí explained that from that day onwards, sexual and workplace harassment increased on the part of both officials. [Musician] says she was pressured to participate in swimsuit parties organized by Gámes Mendíbil and Aguilar Gómez, which [Musician] claims were attended by more politicians and officials. The group of girls said they were offered to attendees as sex workers.
There were proposals from Antonio and Juan de Dios that it wouldn't cost me anything to belong to the group of girls.
What did they call you? Which group of girls?
Uh, going to swimming pools.
There were events, there were pool parties where we were invited.
The abuses also included her boss, Antonio Aguilar, taking away the welfare cards of her two disabled children. [music] They told her that as she was an employee she could not continue with the support. The money, [for music], he said, was collected by Aguilar. That same year, his 10-year-old son died after a shock, and they told me it was a good thing my son had died so that it would calm my nerves.
Noemí filed a complaint against Juan de Dios Gámez Mendíbil and Antonio Aguilar Gómez with the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office for the crimes of sexual harassment, intimidation, discrimination, and extortion in 2022.
I'm just waiting for the right moment, and for that moment to be when I'm alone.
As?
Yes, let him kill me for talking. That 's very strong what you're saying, too strong.
But if they do pass, well, as they said, it would just become part of the statistics, and why am I even speaking up?
Because the same thing would happen if I stayed silent anyway.
But it is an opportunity for the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office to ensure that, of course, this brave woman who is denouncing what happened is not killed, and that justice is served instead. The complaint at the prosecutor's office is open, but frozen.
Noemí Rivera also visited Inujeres [music] and the Human Rights Commission. All institutions ignored her. The only ones [musicians] who haven't forgotten her are those who threatened her again to keep her quiet.
Today is the war in Colima.
For hours, clashes between armed civilians and state police led to a day of violence in the municipality of Tecomán, with blockades and burning trailers on the Manzanillo-Colima highway. Investigative police officers were responding to a 911 call when they were attacked with gunfire.
The criminals even placed a trailer on the train tracks, which ended up being hit and dragged by the locomotive.
My horse.
Another burn victim.
Yeah, he's going to take it, dude. He did n't stop.
Yes, he took it.
Ah. No. Oh, no way.
No way, dude. It derailed.
Yes, gay.
The trailer pulverized him, son.
Residents of Tecomán experienced at least two hours of a wave of violence in which they witnessed bursts of gunfire. Two officers were injured and one of the alleged attackers died at the scene.
In broad daylight and at his workplace. This happened in Puerto Vallarta, in the state of Jalisco. A man broke into this stationery store and look what he did to the employee.
But just leave me alone, please leave me alone.
52 seconds. That was the time when a man robbed and stabbed an 18-year-old woman [musician] who was working at a stationery store in the Primero de Mayo neighborhood in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. It happened on Sunday at 1:15 in the afternoon. [music] The first approach was an innocent question.
Excuse me, [snort] how long does it take to get a copy?
Twice.
Paula, the name by which the victim was identified, approaches her attacker and takes a sheet of paper. While she makes the photocopy, the man prepares to attack. He reaches into his military-print backpack, revealing the handle of a knife. He seems nervous.
Before stabbing her, he makes sure that no one else sees him.
Oh, what's wrong with you? What's the matter? I don't want everything anymore, but just leave me alone, please leave me alone.
He stabs Paula in the side at least twice while imitating the sound of an ape. Then he steals a laptop that was on one of the display cases and a metal box that appears to be where they keep the money. Please let me scream for help, Paula.
Oh no, please, help me.
Help me.
Imagen Noticias de la noche had access to the sheet that the attacker took to be photocopied. It is a Christian reflection [music] entitled Timeless. One of his lines says: "Time is up and it's time [music] to die." It is signed by Álvaro Julián.
But just leave me alone, please leave me alone.
The Jalisco Attorney General's Office is searching for this aggressor, Paula's aggressor. He was a student, he is a student at the Puerto Vallarta Regional Preparatory School, he was working at this stationery store, getting ahead, working like so many stories to maybe pay for his studies, to help his family, to be better. A relative of the victim shared with us that fortunately he is stable and recovering from the abdominal injury he suffered.
Here I am. I'm not leaving, I don't owe anything. Let them investigate me. I'm not leaving, I don't owe anything. And it seems he did owe something because he's gone now, they can't find him.
Where did Jesús Corona go? Damián is a fugitive; he has already filed for protection before a judge in Morelos. He is the mayor of Cuautla. They ca n't find it. He said he wasn't going to leave, and then he left.
Now he is seeking protection so that the Attorney General's Office will not arrest him. He is wanted for alleged links to Jupiter Araujo. [music] El Barbas, regional leader of the Pacific cartel, remains at large since Tuesday after the swarm operation. But he's not the only one. The mayor's daughter and head of the Municipal DIF, Diana Corona, stopped showing up last Wednesday.
Nobody knows where [music] is. They haven't found it either.
The City Council is analyzing the candidates who could assume the position.
In Corona's absence, the Cuautla council held an extraordinary session on Saturday that was suddenly suspended. Then they took it back to the closed doors and appointed her, look, Nancy Echeverría as acting mayor for a period of 90 days. Protesters tried to impose the official alternate mayor, Salvador Molina Martínez, but they did not succeed.
In her first actions, she appointed the treasurer and the city council secretary after their incumbents were arrested. Maite Lisbeth Vargas assumed the treasury position, while the secretary of the City Council or the secretariat of this city council will be in charge of Felipe Valcázar.
They also appointed Manuel Nieto as acting head of the municipal police. Today, Margarita González, the governor of Morelos, visited Cuautla and supported the city councilor. The governor, a member of the Morena party, led the state coordination meeting for peacebuilding. In the last few hours, a version emerged that the Sinaloa cartel had threatened her, that the Sinaloa cartel had intimidated the Morena government of Morelos, which she heads.
[music] There he refused to talk about his former collaborator Raúl Tadeonaba and former mayor of Cuautla, [music] who became a witness for the Attorney General's Office. [music] She did not want to talk about that member of her inner circle. There's another hot potato there, it's called Morelos.
It is called alleged narcopolitics in the municipalities. Today the governor, I insist, was in this municipality in Cuautla after the swarm operation and in her statement she said that Barbas had asked her to deliver a threat to the governor so that she would accept appointments of officials controlled by crime and allow the free passage of drugs. However, there is no record that the message was delivered to him. That's what the governor herself said.
It is true that the government was threatened by the cartel, but that is a false statement that we have already clarified from a national newspaper; we already sent the clarification, we already published it today, and it is a falsehood. So thank you very much to everyone.
The person they did threaten with a message was precisely Salvador Molina, coordinator of the Municipal Development Planning Committee, whom protesters were trying to impose as mayor. They did it by hanging a blanket on a bridge.
There is something that is difficult to understand.
And the numbers for attracting foreign direct investment reported by the Mexican government are truly spectacular.
Double-digit growth makes it clear that despite all the uncertainty, despite everything that may worry the world, foreign investment is coming to Mexico.
However, domestic investment, including investment in domestic infrastructure, continues to decline; it remains lower.
What are they seeing in the world that's bringing money to Mexico that Mexican business owners aren't seeing?
Perhaps one of the first responses is the application of the rule of law, but we would need a much clearer, much more defined vision to know what is happening. And give me the camera, give me the camera.
Tomorrow Carlos Slim will give his traditional press conference.
Hopefully, Nacho, he will have answers.
We'll be waiting to hear what the engineer says, of course, David.
Thank you so much. And now I'm going to Veracruz because you surely remember this scene and I have news about it.
My name is Irva Hernández Cruz, taxi 554 is further away.
Fellow taxi drivers, you do n't mess with the Veracruz mafia.
Pay your dues or you'll end up like me.
It is the story, you will remember it, of Professor Irma Hernández Cruz. He was 62 years old. I presented this story to him last year. She was a retired teacher who continued working, [music] who decided to get ahead as a taxi driver in a state where being a taxi driver means [music] being threatened, being extorted, being kidnapped. It involves being allegedly murdered by the Veracruz mafia in Alamo [music] Tema Pach. Days after this video was released, she was found dead.
Abisíb, alias the pig, was captured over the weekend.
According to authorities in the state of Veracruz, the pig would be involved in this [music] case of extortion, in this case of kidnapping and murder.
The State Prosecutor's Office is investigating him for aggravated kidnapping. With this arrest, we now have six people accused of kidnapping [music] and the murder of teacher and taxi driver Irma Hernández Cruz, whose family continues to demand justice, whose family demands that those responsible for these crimes remain in jail and no longer extort money in Veracruz. I'm going to take a break and come back with other things.
Pumas vs. Cruz Azul. Cruz Azul is crowned champion, their tenth title. I'll be right back. Don't leave.
Today the Mexican Diaspora Chairs program was presented, an initiative that aims to strengthen the connection of Mexican academics living abroad with the educational and scientific institutions in the country. The goal is for researchers to teach classes, advise students, even remotely, and the benefits for those who register include recognition by the National System of Researchers and financial support. [music] If they decide to travel to Mexico for academic purposes, they will have this support. The call for entries opens [music] on June 5th. More news.
The World Health Organization reported that the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing an extremely serious Ebola epidemic [music] that has resulted in 220 deaths, 101 infections [music] and 900 possible cases.
In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV called for the regulation of the development of artificial intelligence, which he likened to a new Tower of Babel that must be at the service of all and the common good.
And I'm leaving with these three goals that mean a lot to Pumas [music] the goal he scored yesterday, but above all to the champion Cruz Azul for the two he scored yesterday. Cruz Azulearla has indeed been having everything to win and in the end losing.
Cruz Azulearla means drawing 0-0 in the first leg and conceding the first goal in the second leg. And to think we were going to Cruz Azul it, but to Cruz Azul it is also to tie, huh? And then to "cruzazulearla" is to score the winning goal in the 94th minute. Yes, " cruzazulearla" has meant suffering through corruption and controversies among strategists, but "cruzazulearla" is also, and should above all be, about winning the tenth title, celebrating it at the Angel of Independence, having dreams and fulfilling them, "cruzazulearla" them, winning. See you tomorrow.
[music]
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