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Weekly Report - 18 September 2025 (WR-25-37)
MEXICO: Ex official arrested in key corruption case
Authorities in Paraguay have arrested Hernán Bermúdez, the former public security minister of Mexico’s Tabasco state who is accused of leading the criminal group La Barredora. The case against Bermúdez, who fled Mexico early this year, is highly sensitive given his ties to Adán Augusto López, a heavyweight within the federally ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena). President Claudia Sheinbaum is demonstrating her government’s commitment to cracking down on corruption by going after Bermúdez, who was appointed security minister when López was governor of Tabasco, the native state of her mentor and predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024). This risks revealing some uncomfortable truths for Morena, boosting the opposition’s claims that the movement is corrupt.
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