XINHUA Alleged Colombian drug lord Eduard Fernando Giraldo was arrested last week in a sting operation in Mexico City, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed Thursday, April 21. “Giraldo was detained by the Navy Secretariat and deported back to Colombia on Wednesday, April 20,” López Obrador said during his regular daily press conference. The capture of the alleged criminal,
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — After years of evident indifference and lack of interest in the internal affairs of the central Mexican state of Michoacán, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finally paid a long-overdue visit to the state last weekend. And this time, he was neither defiant nor apprehensive about the trip. On the contrary, he seemed happy
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Never mind that the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán trial is raging full-speed ahead in a Brooklyn federal courthouse. What local Mexican politicos are really concerned about is the defecation hitting the fan and spreading all over the face of a now-outcast police commander. And mind you, he’s reacting the same way that any normal honest citizen would. , who according
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