Mexico City bureau chief for The New York Times. I lead coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Before: The NYT correspondent in Brazil.
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Jack Nicas retweeted
CDMX! Nos vemos el próximo miércoles por acá. Ojalá nos puedan acompañar en @polillalibreria ✨
La CIA necesitaba un guía del lado mexicano de la frontera.
Así que recurrió a un funcionario mexicano al que le acababan de revocar la visa por presuntos vínculos con cárteles.
@Stevelfisher y yo les contamos desde adentro cómo opera la CIA en secreto en México:
nyti.ms/4sUWs4c
The CIA needed a foothold on the Mexican side of the border.
So they turned to a Mexican official who had just had his U.S. visa revoked for suspected ties to cartels.
@Stevelfisher and I take you inside the covert CIA operations in Mexico:
nyti.ms/4k9tyLk
Jack Nicas retweeted
“Este es el caso de una muerte anunciada”, dijo @PyBorda.
El colapso de Ueno bank ha sumergido a Paraguay, un país que a veces se promueve como el nuevo Dubái, en una crisis en espiral de dinero, política e investigaciones penales.
nytimes.com/es/2026/11/09/es…
Jack Nicas retweeted
Dentro de los operativos armados de la CIA en México:
La CIA se alió con un fiscal de Chihuahua investigado por el FBI por presuntos nexos con el crimen organizado.
Facilitó entrenamiento y operativos con policías estatales. Recuperó la visa que le había cancelado EEUU.
La CIA buscaba crear una unidad de fuerzas especiales en Chihuahua.
End un operativo, la CIA ayudó a planear despliegues policiales. En otro, un oficial de la CIA dio cobertura con su rifle mientras policías mexicanos irrumpían en una casa de seguridad.
Con @jacknicas
nytimes.com/es/2026/11/10/es…
Jack Nicas retweeted
Inside the CIA’s armed operations in Mexico:
The CIA enlisted a Chihuahua state prosecutor under investigation by the FBI for his suspected cartel ties. He embedded CIA officers with state police—and got his revoked U.S. visa back.
The CIA sought to build a Mexican special forces unit in Chihuahua state
CIA officers helped plan Mexican police deployments, and provided rifle cover during one raid.
Masked Americans joined a meth-lab raid. Two CIA officers later died in a cliffside crash, exposing the mission.
With @jacknicas
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
Jack Nicas retweeted
NEW for The New York Times w @aellick
How Ueno Bank and its Elon Musk wannabe came crashing down, throwing Paraguay into turmoil
“This is a tale of a death foretold,” said elder statesman Dionisio Borda. “It’s a naked fraud of the Paraguayan people.”
nytimes.com/2026/11/09/world…
Another example of the increased security cooperation between Mexico and the U.S.
Mexican authorities, acting on U.S. intelligence, took out a leader of one of the nation's biggest cartels, CJNG.
Mexico this year has cut off many of the heads of CJNG, including its top boss, El Mencho.
En Zapopan, Jalisco, en una operación encabezada por @SEMAR_mx, a través de la Unidad Naval de Operaciones Especiales (UNOPES), y de @SSPCMexico, con apoyo de Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército Mexicano de @Defensamx1, detuvo a Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, identificado como un importante generador de violencia y mando de “Los Rs”, célula del CJNG con operaciones en Jalisco y Michoacán. También fueron detenidas otras 19 personas.
Su localización fue resultado de trabajos de inteligencia del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) y de información compartida por la @DEAHQ. Cuenta con una orden de aprehensión vigente por homicidio calificado, emitida por el Juzgado Primero Penal de Apatzingán, Michoacán, así como una orden de aprehensión con fines de extradición a Estados Unidos.
Esta célula está relacionada principalmente con extorsión, tráfico de drogas, homicidio, privación ilegal de la libertad, secuestro y agresiones contra las autoridades. Entre sus víctimas de extorsión se encuentran empresarios y productores de aguacate.
Durante el operativo se registró un enfrentamiento en el que “R2” resultó herido, por lo que recibe atención médica. La información es preliminar y se actualizará conforme avancen las investigaciones.
Jack Nicas retweeted
“Maduro has said publicly that he has Jewish heritage… But people close to him said he had not expressed interest in Judaism until his capture.” nytimes.com/2026/11/08/nyreg… our latest with @tylerpager @Jonesieman
Jack Nicas retweeted
“It’s a mess,” said @JohannaParaguay, an opposition lawmaker.
My latest for @nytimes on Paraguay’s rolling banking scandal:
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/world…
Jack Nicas retweeted
It looks like every congressional district along the U.S.–Mexico border voted Democratic in this election, from San Diego to Brownsville. A remarkable political statement, especially considering how central the border has been to Donald Trump’s political rise. The very region he turned into a defining symbol of his political movement is now sending a very different message to the rest of the country.
This is one of the best Tejano tracks of all time.
And its singer, Bobby Pulido, just flipped a House seat for Democrats in Texas.
open.spotify.com/track/2JJSG…
Jack Nicas retweeted
Buenos Aires sits at least a 10-hour plane ride away from most global capitals. And yet, once you’re here, you feel like you’re at the center of something. The city is magnetic, compelling, intoxicating.
My 36h guide:
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
In an interview, Cuba's foreign minister told me that the Cuban strategy to counter Trump is simply to endure — and hope the U.S. moves on.
“For as long as it takes,” he said. “U.S. policy toward Cuba will change. It has to. It’s inevitable.”
We'll see.
Jack Nicas retweeted
Breaking news: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, whose attempts to win Mexico’s presidency helped break the ruling party’s grip on power, has died at 92.
nyti.ms/4BxKyB6
Flávio Bolsonaro declared himself Brazil’s true president-elect, and then quickly deleted it.
About an hour ago, his team issued a statement from him declaring himself the “president-elect” because he claimed the election was stolen.
Less than an hour later, after that caused a controversy, they reissued the statement and changed that term to “leader.”
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