Mexican military and police seize American company's Caribbean facility, sparking outrage.

The Mexican military and local state police have seized an American company's quarry facility in Mexico, sparking outrage among former and current government officials. Vulcan Materials, the largest producer of construction aggregates in the US, accused the Mexican navy and police of forcing the company to allow CEMEX, a Mexican-owned materials company, to unload a shipment of cement from a ship in the port. Vulcan has been in tension with Mexico for months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador forced a shutdown of the quarry's operations in May 2022. The seizure could have significant geopolitical and economic implications for the US.