Political, social and security risk insights
Short notes from the Riskop team on recent events in Mexico. Each one says what happened, with its date and source, and what to check if your company has a plant, a route or a project nearby.
Christian Ehrlich will speak on maritime security at the Schuman Forum in Brussels
Christian Ehrlich, partner, Co-CEO and Director of Intelligence at Riskop, has been invited to the third Schuman Security and Defence Forum, which the European External Action Service holds in Brussels on November 17 and 18, 2026. He will speak on threats and risks to maritime security from a Mexican perspective.
Topics: Maritime security, Forums and conferences
Stay or leave a border corridor in northeast Mexico
An export manufacturer with two plants in a border corridor in northeast Mexico spent months asking whether it should leave. Its exposure sat in the channels that connect a plant to its surroundings: workers, suppliers, transportation, labor representation and local permits. This anonymized case shows how that question turned into written rules.
Topics: Plant security, Export manufacturing, Investment decisions
Four layers to check before investing in a site in Mexico
Before investing in a site in Mexico, there are four layers to check: legal, environmental, community and narrative. Law firms handle the first two, and they almost always get reviewed. The other two are settled in the field, and they are the ones that tend to stop a project that had everything in order.
Topics: Investment decisions, Social license, Political risk
Which crime figure a plant should track when homicide falls and extortion rises
According to Mexico’s federal government, the daily average of intentional homicides fell more than 52% between September 2024 and September 2026. Extortion went the other way: Coparmex counted 6,562 victims in the first half of 2026, the highest for that period in 11 years. For a plant, the useful figure is the municipal one.
Topics: Extortion, Crime data, Plant security
What Tecozautla and Las Dunas say about social license in Mexico
Between July and October 2026, two projects in Mexico stopped for reasons no permit covered: a solar park in Tecozautla, Hidalgo, after an Indigenous consultation, and the Las Dunas development in Chuburná Puerto, Yucatán, after citizen complaints, a shutdown by the federal environmental enforcement agency and a court injunction. What they share and what to check.
Topics: Social license, Energy transition, Investment decisions
How criminal pressure gets into a plant in Mexico
Criminal pressure on a plant in Mexico rarely arrives through violence or the front gate. It comes in through hiring, suppliers, transportation, contracted on-site services, labor representation and municipal permits. Each of those channels already has an owner inside the company, which is why each one can be closed.
Topics: Extortion, Plant security
When a Sinaloa case is read in Washington
The indictment unsealed in New York on April 29, 2026 against Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former officials touches a criminal case, the government of a Mexican state and the relationship with Washington, all at once. An indictment is not a conviction. Here are the dates and what to watch.
Topics: Political risk, U.S.-Mexico relations