Body of Canadian woman slain in Teotihuacán shooting returned to family
Officials have not publicly released the name of the deceased
The body of a Canadian tourist killed when a gunman opened fire from one of Mexico’s most visited pyramids has been turned over to her family, Mexican officials confirmed.
The attorney general’s office for Mexico state said the woman’s family went to its regional office this week in the municipality of Texcoco.
“There, after necessary procedures for identification were completed, her body was returned to them,” it said Wednesday in an email in Spanish.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified by Mexican or Canadian officials, was the only person to die in Monday’s shooting.
New witness video shows tourists taking cover from a gunman during a mass shooting at one of Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids. One Canadian woman was killed and 13 others were injured.
“Mexican legislation, including the General Law on Victims, prohibits disclosing personal data that allows the identification of victims of crimes in order to guarantee their right to privacy,” said the email.
However, federal officials in Mexico released the identities earlier this week of the tourists injured in the shooting, as well as the hospitals where they were treated.
The only Canadian of the 13 injured was identified Monday by the Security Cabinet of Mexico as 29-year-old Delicia Li de Yong. It said she was sent to hospital with a gunshot wound above her right shoulder blade.
Tourists from the United States, Colombia, Brazil and Russia were also injured, the youngest being a six-year-old Colombian boy.
Global Affairs Canada said Thursday that consular officials are providing assistance to the family of the Canadian who was killed. “In accordance with the Privacy Act, no further information can be disclosed.”
The Security Cabinet of Mexico didn’t immediately reply to a request to identify the Canadian who was killed.
Attack was planned, officials say
Mexican officials have said the shooter appears to have planned the attack at the Teotihuacán pyramids, played strange music, ranted about hating tourists and fired randomly as visitors jumped and scrambled down to safety.
The gunman was identified as Julio César Jasso Ramirez, a Mexican citizen, who died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“This occurred after the National Guard wounded him in the leg,” José Luis Cervantes, attorney general for the state of Mexico, said Tuesday in a news conference in Spanish.
The Mexican government has said the 27-year-old gunman had books and notes about an April 1999 gun attack in the U.S., a reference to the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado in which 12 students and a teacher were killed.
The attack at the Pyramid of the Moon highlights the need to prevent anyone from entering archeological sites with a firearm, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at the news conference.
“It has never happened before,” she said. “We need to have protocols in place to prevent this from happening again.”
The Teotihuacán pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage Site north of Mexico City, are considered one of country’s most important tourist destinations. The site drew more than 1.8 million international visitors last year, government figures indicate.
Carney talks CUSMA review with Mexican president as official negotiations loom
Mexico has an official start date for trade talks with U.S., but Canada does not
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday as the two countries are gearing up for the North American trade agreement review this year.
The two leaders touched on a number of topics, including the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), according to a readout from the Prime Minister’s Office.
“They agreed to work in close coordination to address shared economic priorities and challenges, and deliver greater certainty, security, and prosperity for their peoples,” the readout of the phone call said.
Sheinbaum met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer earlier this week. The U.S. and Mexico are set to being official talks on CUSMA late next month, but Canada doesn’t yet have a similar official start date.
The text of the agreement says July 1 is the date by which the three countries need to either approve a renewal of the existing agreement or signal their intention to exit the pact, but that process can take up to 10 years.
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Both U.S. and Canadian officials have said talks will likely go past that July 1 date.
Janice Charette, Canada’s chief trade negotiator, said earlier this week that based on talks she’s had with Greer, she expects the U.S. to work out some details with Canada and Mexico separately.
“There’s a bilateral piece as well as a trilateral [piece] — my counterpart in the U.S. has described this to me as a kind of snap-on Lego bilateral piece to the underlying framework [of CUSMA],” she said Wednesday during a Canadian Chamber of Commerce summit in Ottawa.
Carney and Sheinbaum also discussed bilateral ties outside of CUSMA, according to the readout.
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“The prime minister and the president highlighted the results of a successful Team Canada Trade Mission to Mexico earlier this year that resulted in over 20 new commercial partnerships and agreements. Prime Minister Carney welcomed Mexico’s upcoming trade mission to Canada,” Friday’s readout said.
The call comes as both countries are being hit with U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.
On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration is now offering Canadian and Mexican aluminum and steel companies immediate tariff relief if they commit to moving production to the United States in the future.
Those tariffs, as well as other U.S. sectoral tariffs, came up as officials in both Canada and the U.S. publicly aired trade grievances.
During an appearance before a congressional committee this week, Greer criticized Canadian provinces for removing U.S. alcohol from the shelves — something that was initially done last year in response to Trump’s tariffs.
Carney bristled at a question about Greer’s comments during a news conference on Thursday, pointing to the U.S. sectoral tariffs.
“You know what’s an irritant? A 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum, 25 per cent on automobiles, all of the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants. Those are violations of our trade deal, OK?” Carney said.
While Greer has suggested the sectoral tariffs are an issue outside the purview of the CUSMA review, Canadian officials have insisted the two issues must be discussed in tandem.
Canadian tourist killed in Mexico
During his call with Sheinbaum on Friday, Carney also thanks the president for her “support and co-operation” after a Canadian was shot and killed in Mexico earlier this week.
The Canadian tourist — who has not been publicly identified — was killed when a gunman opened fire from one of Mexico’s most visited pyramids on Monday.
Another 13 people were injured during the attack. The gunman, a Mexican citizen, died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Tragedy struck the United States and Mexico last Sunday. As U.S. and Mexican officials were returning from an anti-drug operation in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, the car they were riding in skidded off the mountainous road and exploded in a ball of fire. The U.S. Embassy acknowledged that two of its employees were killed in the crash. The embassy employees were actually CIA officers.
With a handshake, Spain and Mexico put diplomatic tussle over their colonial past behind them
With a few choice words and a handshake, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum laid to rest a diplomatic spat between her government and Spain over the Spanish colonial past during her visit to Barcelona on Saturday.
“There is no diplomatic crisis, there never was one,” she said upon arrival at the IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy, a gathering of representatives of 15 countries concerned with the rise of illiberalism.
“The important thing is to recognize the efforts of the indigenous people of our land,” she said, moments before shaking hands with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Sheinbaum’s participation came after Spain’s King Felipe VI ironed out a longstanding diplomatic dispute when in March he publicly acknowledged the conquest of the Americas had led to the “abuse” of native peoples.
The international tussle started in 2019, when Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, demanded that Spain “publicly and officially” recognize the abuses committed during the conquest of Mexico in a letter sent to the Spanish king and Pope Francis.
Spain refused to do so, which soured relations between the two governments.
Relations hit a low point in 2024 when Sheinbaum did not invite Felipe to her inauguration over the palace’s refusal to issue a formal apology, a move that Sánchez called “unacceptable.” Spain subsequently refused to send a representative to Sheinbaum’s inauguration in a breach of tradition.
The unprecedented step toward reconciliation by Felipe was followed by the Mexican government inviting the Spanish monarch to attend a World Cup match this summer.
Sheinbaum and Sánchez later met privately and, according to Sánchez’s office, discussed global affairs, the relations between Mexico and the European Union and how to strengthen cultural and economic ties between the two countries.
Sánchez did not publicly mention the now-resolved diplomatic issue at Saturday’s events, while thanking Sheinbaum for offering to host the next edition of the pro-democracy summit next year.
Hundreds of bone fragments found in Mexico City ahead of World Cup
More than 1,000 bone fragments have been found near a lake in Mexico City, authorities and a volunteer group said, just weeks before it hosts the World Cup — another grim reminder of the country’s violent drug war.
A collective of families looking for their loved ones said the gruesome findings near Lake Chalco demonstrated a “devastating reality” and “a forensic crisis of incalculable dimensions.”
While “the authorities want this to go unnoticed, the families want the whole world to know the tragedy that occurs in the country’s capital,” the group said in a statement.
City authorities last week began exhuming the lakefront site in the eastern part of Mexico City, and prosecutors announced Monday that some 300 bone fragments, which they believe could belong to three people, had been found.
But the volunteer group said they found more than 1,000 bone fragments in and around the site, including in areas which had already been examined by government agents.
More than 480,000 people have been killed and another 130,000 have gone missing in Mexico’s drug war since 2006, when the government deployed federal troops to take on the country’s powerful cartels.
A UN committee of experts has called the missing persons crisis a “crime against humanity,” saying efforts to recover human remains have been hampered by “acquiescence and omission on the part of public servants.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attacked the report, arguing it ignored new policies implemented to support the families of the missing.
In a meeting with city officials on Friday, the activists demanded that searches be carried out without interruption until the site is fully inspected.
Both Mexico City and Guadalajara are preparing to host World Cup games in June, with protesters in both cities denouncing the government’s failure to properly investigate the disappearances. The United States and Canada are co-hosting the Cup.
More than 1,000 bone fragments have been found near a lake in Mexico City, authorities and a volunteer group said, just weeks before it hosts the World Cup — another grim reminder of the country’s violent drug war.
A collective of families looking for their loved ones said the gruesome findings near Lake Chalco demonstrated a “devastating reality” and “a forensic crisis of incalculable dimensions.”
While “the authorities want this to go unnoticed, the families want the whole world to know the tragedy that occurs in the country’s capital,” the group said in a statement.
City authorities last week began exhuming the lakefront site in the eastern part of Mexico City, and prosecutors announced Monday that some 300 bone fragments, which they believe could belong to three people, had been found.
But the volunteer group said they found more than 1,000 bone fragments in and around the site, including in areas which had already been examined by government agents.
More than 480,000 people have been killed and another 130,000 have gone missing in Mexico’s drug war since 2006, when the government deployed federal troops to take on the country’s powerful cartels.
A UN committee of experts has called the missing persons crisis a “crime against humanity,” saying efforts to recover human remains have been hampered by “acquiescence and omission on the part of public servants.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attacked the report, arguing it ignored new policies implemented to support the families of the missing.
In a meeting with city officials on Friday, the activists demanded that searches be carried out without interruption until the site is fully inspected.
Both Mexico City and Guadalajara are preparing to host World Cup games in June, with protesters in both cities denouncing the government’s failure to properly investigate the disappearances. The United States and Canada are co-hosting the Cup.
The works, which span prehistory to the time of contact with Spanish colonisers, were identified in Hidalgo state during construction of a passenger train line
The railway construction route was modified to preserve these heritage sites at El Venado in Mexico’s Hidalgo statePhotos: Gerardo Peña, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Specialists from Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) announced this week that they have recorded 16 petroglyphs and cave paintings dating from prehistory and the Mesoamerican Postclassic period (AD900-AD1521) located on two cliffs near the Tula River and the La Requena Dam, in the state of Hidalgo.
The discovery comes on the heels of other recent discoveries of Mesoamerican and colonial-era sites and artefacts during archaeological salvage work associated with planning a new 232km passenger rail line between Mexico City and Querétaro. Earlier this month, INAH revealed the discovery of a 1,000-year-old Toltec altar nearby, at the Tula Chico site.
The site of the most recent rock art discovery is one of four active excavations along the Querétaro route, where construction began in April 2025, with current progress at around 10% of the total project. In October 2025, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced a change to the railway route to preserve this heritage site, given the impossibility of relocating the paintings to a museum.
The site was registered in the 1970s as part of the Tula Archaeological Project, when a painted element depicting a deer was found, and it has since been called El Venado. In a statement, an INAH spokesperson said: “The location of the artwork suggests a mythical-religious purpose, perhaps related to astronomical or calendrical phenomena.”
The figures found in what INAH describes as a rock shelter are striking. They include one carrying what appears to be a macana (a type of club) with a headdress and goggles reminiscent of Tláloc, the Aztec god of rains, storms and fertility, who is often associated with caves and springs.
In the same rock shelter, the institute identified the stylised image of an anthropomorphic figure rendered in red, as well as an image resembling a snake or lightning bolt. The paintings were made with mineral or vegetable pigments, while the petroglyphs were made using pointillism. According to INAH, some of the artworks are more than 4,000 years old.
Archaeologists in the salvage team say the paintings are in good condition. They estimate that those of pre-Hispanic origin are possibly related to the final stage of Tula, the great Toltec capital that left vast remains full of monuments and artistic treasures.
Among the figures found near the Tula River are a representation of a deer and a figure with fangs, antennae, a breastplate and goggles, similar to those of Tláloc, with bird-like legs, reminiscent of representations made by the Mogollon culture, which inhabited the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, and whose art has been found at sites in Puebla.
A figure with an anthropomorphic face and hair, with four legs resembling those of a bird or the hooves of a horse, that likely dates from the time of contact with the Spanish, was also identified. While the paintings and petroglyphs were only recently identified officially, according to INHA, they had previously known the region’s local communities.
According to José-Miguel Perez Gomez, an expert on Latin American rock art, the discovery represents “a transformative milestone for Mexican archaeology and rock art studies”.
The findings are exceptionally significant, he tells The Art Newspaper, because of its “vast chronological span, documenting human activity from over 4,000 years ago through the Mesoamerican Postclassic and into the early colonial period. By providing a continuous record of cultural evolution,” he says, “the site allows researchers to analyse the transition of symbolic languages and artistic techniques within a single geographic context.”
Perez Gomez adds that the site’s iconography “suggests deep-rooted cultural exchanges between central Mexico and the Mogollon cultures of the north. Located near the Tula River, the site functions as a lithic archive of ritual life and environmental interaction. This discovery not only enriches our understanding of regional pre-Hispanic heritage but also reinforces the Tula Valley’s status as a critical corridor for long-term cultural synthesis and spiritual expression.”
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Mexico has long struggled with high rates of gender-based killings, or femicides. In just the first two months of this year, 756 women were violently killed in Mexico, most ruled accidental; some 2,812 were raped and over 162,000 calls related to gender and domestic violence were made to emergency services, according to government data, opens new tab.
Southern Arizona ranchers prepare for possible outbreak
A flesh-eating parasite is getting closer to the United States, becoming a major concern for ranchers.
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – A flesh-eating parasite is getting closer to the United States, becoming a major concern for ranchers.
The New World Screwworm has been detected about 90 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Ranchers across southern Arizona are bracing for a potential outbreak.
Clay Parsons, owner of Marana Stockyards, said there is a lot of worry among ranchers, though the screwworm has not yet been detected in the states.
“The screwworm infestation – if it does come – is a major concern,” Parsons said.
The New World screwworm is a species of parasitic fly that feeds on the tissue of warm-blooded animals, including people.
“It can actually cause the death of animals,” said Dr. Yan Zhang, director of the Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
The University of Arizona’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is one of three labs working alongside the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the spread of the pest.
The USDA has fly traps set up along the border. Zhang said if and when flies are caught, he and his team will step in.
“The flies will be trapped and sent to the lab for screening. If we see any suspect, we’ll forward to the USDA,” Zhang said.
His lab is talking with ranchers like Parsons on how to be prepared.
Parsons said he is preparing for the possibility to ensure his livestock stay safe and alive, as his cattle being infected could have consequences.
“Right now, we’re in the process of building some sterile fly plants. We’re also in the process of learning what to do if the outbreak does take place,” Parsons said.
In the 9960s and 70s, the United States eradicated its New World screwworm population by raising sterile male flies and releasing them from planes to mate with females.
Parsons said an outbreak now could lead to changes in the way ranchers work.
“It would take a lot more labor to make sure animals were OK. Right now, you know, our cattle run out on big open spaces. So we’re gonna have to congregate them more, we’re gonna have to look at them more,” Parsons said.
Parsons said the consumer should not worry about the safety of their meat, as heavy inspections are done before sale. However, an outbreak infecting cattle could impact the price tag.
“Anytime you have a lower supply of anything, prices go higher,” Parsons said.
Zhang said it is unpredictable as to whether and when the screwworm will make its way across the border. Labs are remaining highly vigilant, especially as the summer approaches and the heat provides perfect conditions for the pest to multiply.
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum Decrees Universal Healthcare for 120 Million
This unified digital and physical platform aims to eventually streamline care across facilities like the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), and IMSS-Bienestar.
The plan marks a bold step toward equitable healthcare access, with the goal of allowing patients to seek treatment at any public hospital or clinic regardless of their specific employment-based enrollment. While registration begins this month, the full exchange of medical services between these institutions is slated to begin on January 1, 2027. By integrating services through a digital system and unified medical records, the government intends to reduce bureaucratic hurdles and improve efficiency for millions who have long faced fragmented care options.
However, the decree has sparked sharp criticism over its feasibility. Detractors, including opposition voices like Deputy Éctor Jaime Ramírez Barba, argue that the ambitious rollout lacks the necessary funding and infrastructure to support an influx of patients into already strained facilities. Without concrete plans for significant new hospital construction or a massive increase in medical staff, critics warn the policy risks exacerbating overcrowding, potentially undermining the quality of care for those already in the system.
Public health experts have also pointed out that the absence of a detailed investment strategy could burden current users. Overcrowded hospitals and long wait times are already chronic issues; critics fear the decree may intensify these challenges. Furthermore, while the administration is promoting a new AI-driven mobile app for digital consultations, questions remain about accessibility for rural populations with limited internet resources.
The scale of the task is significant: Mexico’s public healthcare system serves a vast majority of the population, with facilities often operating at capacity. IMSS and ISSSTE combined cover tens of millions of workers, and merging access without expanding physical infrastructure could strain resources further.
While the April 13 start date for credentialing serves as a critical benchmark, the government has yet to release a full budgetary roadmap for addressing these capacity concerns. The policy’s ultimate success will hinge on execution over the coming years, with a key indicator being whether patient wait times and resource availability show measurable improvement as the 2027 service integration approaches.
A worker trapped for two weeks after a mine collapsed in northwestern Mexico has been rescued, the government said Wednesday.
Two other workers died when the gold and silver mine in the state of Sinaloa caved in on March 25, trapping four men.
One miner was rescued on March 30, and a diver located the other survivor on Tuesday night.
“Incredibly — and fortunately — he was found alive,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told a regular news conference.
Hundreds of rescuers had worked day and night for two weeks, using specialized water-extraction equipment to reach the miners.
According to authorities, the mine caved in due to a waterproofing failure which compromised its structure.
Accidents are not uncommon in mines in Mexico, where some operate clandestinely or with substandard equipment and safety.
In August 2022, a mine collapse in the northern state of Coahuila killed 10 workers.
In that same state in 2006, 65 miners died in an explosion at the Pasta de Conchos coal mine.
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