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Mexico remains one of 23 countries Washington classifies as a major drug transit or producing nation for fiscal year 2027, under a determination President Trump sent Congress on Sept. 15.
- Only Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma and Colombia landed in the harsher category — nations the White House said failed outright to meet their counternarcotics duties. Mexico avoided that label.
- President Sheinbaum used her Thursday morning briefing to demand Washington produce its own accounting of drug use, money laundering and gun trafficking.
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Mexico points to 92 alleged cartel operators handed to U.S. custody since February 2025 and a standing deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops on the border as evidence of cooperation.
