By MARK LORENZANA A group of protesters who identified themselves as supporters of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) heckled, jeered and kicked out political analyst, activist and author Denise Dresser from a protest march on Sunday, Oct. 2, at Mexico City’s main square Zócalo. Dresser, who has been a vocal critic of López Obrador, attended the march commemorating
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By MARK LORENZANA At least 28 people have been violently killed in the northern Mexican coastal state of Sonora since the recent capture of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, according to a report on Wednesday, July 20, by the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal. The violence has so far been concentrated in the municipalities of Guaymas-Empalme, Cajeme and Caborca. According to
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By MARK LORENZANA The spokesman for the archdiocese of Guadalajara, Antonio Gutiérrez Montaño, said on Wednesday, June 29, in an interview with Mexican daily El Universal that extortion racketeering by organized-crime groups in Mexico have already reached the Catholic Church’s doorstep, specifically in the western Mexican state of Jalisco. “We cannot speak openly of this, or give out more details,
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