ICE: Disinformation and Injerencism

The Immigration and Customs Control Service (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released on social media on Wednesday a text accompanied by four photographs suggesting that armed personnel of that agency led an operation in which “three large-scale synthetic drug production laboratories” were dismantled in Sinaloa and “drugs and chemical precursors were seized.” The original English-languag…

The week is closing for President Claudia Sheinbaum as it began: on the defensive, with the initiative lost and wrapped in a whirlwind of counter-information. Sheinbaum is in a brief for a photograph, published in various media, where four officers appear in presumably U.S. tactical uniforms, and a text that said that the Office of Migration and Customs (ICE) and the Criminal Investigation Office of the Department of Homeland Security had headed…

Latin American Summary, May 15, 2025. Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum denied the direct participation of U.S. agents in a recent anti-drug operation in Sinaloa, where clandestine laboratories were dismantled. The clarification comes in response to an announcement by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), which was released [...] La entrada Mexico. Sheinbaum denies the participation of U.S. agents in dismantling narcolaborat…

Niega Sheinbaum that the US has participated in dismantling laboratories in Sinaloa The president reiterated that no foreign agency can participate in any operation in Mexican territory At its morning press conference President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo rejected that the United States is participating through any of its agencies in operations against the [...] La entrada Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum denies that U.S. agents participate in dismantling …

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said today, May 15, 2025, that the photograph that was disseminated by U.S. authorities is false, indicating an alleged dismantling of a narcolaboratory in Sinaloa, and clarifying whether foreign agents are participating in operations in Mexico. On May 14, 2025, the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) reported on its social networks that three narcolaboratory agents in Sinaloa, together with Mexican au…

The public ICE that led an operation to dismantle three laboratories in Sinaloa.