By KELIN DILLON Despite Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation’s quest to clean up Mexico’s crooked customs sector, three years of AMLO’s administration has seemingly done little to fix the country’s widespread corruption in the area. In the first six months of 2021, the Tax Administration Service (SAT), which currently runs customs but is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Three months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) handed over the administration of the Reynosa and Matamoros customs to the military, corruption has worsened with the complicity of the National Guard (GN), key private-sector representatives in Tamaulipas said Friday, June 11. “The military turned out to be a bad or worse than
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By KELIN DILLON A private aircraft was caught illegally transporting 5,775 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus at the Campeche International Airport on the evening of Wednesday, March 17, which were then seized by Mexico’s General Administration of Customs (AGA) and officials from the country’s military. Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) found the doses hidden in the
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