A US military Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules aircraft landed at Toluca Airport without official explanation. According to Flightradar24 flight tracking data, the aircraft, with tail number 08-5726, began its flight on Saturday from Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, at 11:50 local time, subsequently landing in Toluca at 14:46. The same aircraft departed from the State of Mexico's capital on Sunday morning and arrived in Brownsville, Texas, at 11:14. The coordinator of the Citizen Movement (MC) in the Senate, Clemente Castañeda, assured on social networks that the Senate of the Republic 'has not held a session to authorize the entry of foreign troops into national territory.' In this regard, he challenged the Security Cabinet to 'immediately' explain whether the presence of the US aircraft corresponds to the request made by President Sheinbaum on December 17, 2025. 'The Constitution is clear: article 76, section III, establishes that the power to authorize the entry and transit of foreign troops corresponds exclusively to the Senate,' Castañeda stated on X, attaching a copy of the request presented by the head of state at the end of last year. Last Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an alert about possible interference in navigation systems derived from military activities in areas of the Pacific of Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador. On Sunday, President Claudia Sheinbaum assured that there is no military activity by the United States on national territory. 'Nothing on national territory,' she said to the media before the presentation of the Justice Plan for the Peoples of Guanajuato and Querétaro. The FAA notices, which will be in effect for 60 days (until March), recommend that airlines and pilots 'take extreme precautions' when operating 'in the maritime zones over the Pacific Ocean' in the flight information regions of the Gulf of California in Mexico (MMFR), Central America (MHTG), Panama (MPZL), Bogotá (SKED), and Guayaquil (SEFG). Photo: File EFE The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) stated last Friday that the measure announced by US authorities is only of a 'preventive nature' and is aimed at reinforcing 'attention and care in the air operation within certain regions of airspace.' The Government of Mexico assured that the presence of a C-130 Hercules aircraft at Toluca International Airport, in the State of Mexico, corresponds to a flight authorized by Mexican authorities, linked to 'training activities,' and not to an extraordinary operation, as speculated on social networks. In a brief message published on X, the Mexican Security Cabinet explained that the images circulating on social networks about a supposed special deployment by US Armed Forces obey 'established protocols and in compliance with bilateral cooperation agreements.' The authorities emphasized that this type of operation is part of the regular mechanisms of international cooperation on security and training, which are carried out with the express authorization of the Mexican state. Images of a US military aircraft landing at Toluca International Airport, coming from Dyess Air Force Base, circulated on social networks. ANOTHER 'UNEXPECTED VISITOR': A US C-130J maintains a naval contingent deployed in the Caribbean as part of Operation Southern Thrust, through which Washington has also summarily destroyed supposed drug trafficking boats navigating in the eastern Pacific not far from the Colombian coast. That same contingent was the one that supported Operation Absolute Resolution, through which the US Army captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3. (With information from EFE and Aristegui Noticias)
