XINHUA Mexican police seized 627 kilograms of cocaine and arrested the driver of the truck transporting it in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, the Fiscal General’s Office said on Monday, Sept. 21. According to the office, federal police seized the drugs at a checkpoint in the city of Huixtla, about 80 kilometers from the Chiapas-Guatemala
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XINHUA The Mexican government stressed on Sunday, Sept. 20, its willingness to work closely with U.S. authorities to combat drug trafficking and dismantle drug trafficking rings. “The government of Mexico reiterates its willingness to continue working closely and in coordination with U.S. authorities for the benefit of the safety and health of the inhabitants of both countries, based on the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Notorios convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has registered an appeal against his life sentence handed down last year by a U.S court for the trafficking of tons of narcotics into the United States over a 25-year period. The appeal was presented by Guzmán’s chief lawyer Marc Fernich late Friday, Sept. 3,
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XINHUA Mexico’s Navy seized 2.9 tons of cocaine after intercepting a boat off the country’s southeast Caribbean coast, the Naval Secretariat said on Wednesday. Sept. 2. Naval infantrymen also detained three suspects during the operation late Tuesday some 85 nautical miles east of Mahahual, a resort town in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo , near the border with Belize.
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Shortly after taking office back in December 2018, both Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum made a spectacular show of the selling off of their respective governments’ armored cars and the costly removal of bulletproof glass from those vehicles they kept to be replaced by traditional automotive glass. Since that time,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Weathering a Perfect Storm Over the past few days, representatives of all o Mexico’s major banks have held separate press conferences previous to the annual Mexico Banks Association Convention, now being held in Acapulco. Each of the interviewed representatives showed acceptance for the policies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). This is an indicator that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The 2020 Census Is On On Monday, March 3, over 151,000 employees of the National Geography and Statistics Institute (Inegi) took to the task of visiting approximately 45 million homes throughout the nation to conduct the 2020 national population census. The resulting figures will be used by federal, state and municipal governments for planning and decision-making. The
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