Former DEA Chief in Mexico Fired over Links to Narco Lawyer
His short tenure saw collapsing cooperation between America and Mexico, along with a chart-topping flow of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl through the border
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US Border Town Braces for More Migrants as Partisan Fights Rage on
XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Choosing the Right School for Your Kids
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE As April and May approach and transnationals begin discussions with their employees about relocation to Mexico (or any other country), the big question of “what about school for the kids?” ranks right up there with safety. (The same applies for digital nomads who see Mexico as a great place to work at a distance with
Read moreThe AMLO Administration’s Slow Affisciation of the Truth
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
Read moreVaquita’s Survival Could Be Threatened by Mexican Government Move
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government is currently considering lifting endangered-species protection for the totoaba fish, which will almost certainly negatively impact the country’s indigenous vaquita porpoise, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. With only about 10 of the critically endangered marine porpoises, which are endemic to Mexico’s Sea of Córtez in the Upper Gulf of
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