OPINION By MEREL HAENEN After a 13-day nationwide manhunt, the lifeless body of missing Mexican teenager Debanhi Escobar was finally discovered on Thursday, April 21, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inside an abandoned cistern just a few hundred meters from where she was last seen on the morning of her disappearance, in the early hours of Saturday, April 9. That much
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By KELIN DILLON In the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has acted in López Obrador’s favor four times at his direct suggestion, leaving the institution’s impartiality in question. Recently, the FGR announced its case against former Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal for illegal
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR), via its Office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes (FEDE), announced it was opening an investigation into alleged electoral crimes committed by two current candidates for the governorship of the conservative state of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Samuel García of the Citizens’ Movement.
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