Rebuilding Bilateral Trust to Fight Cross-Border Crime
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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The View from the North: Ill Tidings South of the Border
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down Mexico way, a recent Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of commotion and major concern. The original story was published in Spanish, but Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English. It’s bad news, to say the least. As Pulse News Mexico’s Mark Lorenzana wrote: “The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members
Read moreAMLO Confirms Disappearance of Navy Sailors in Acapulco
By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed on Thursday, Sept. 29, the disappearance of two elements of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) since March of this year in Acapulco, Guerrero. AMLO, however, denied that the sailors had been assigned as permanent bodyguards of José Narro Céspedes, a senator from López Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). During his daily morning press
Read moreSix Police Officers Gunned Down in Zacatecas Sports Center
By MARK LORENZANA Six police officers from the municipality of Calera in the north-central Mexican state of Zacatecas were killed on Wednesday, September 28, after gunmen opened fire on them while they were exercising at a sports center. Zacatecas Governor David Monreal condemned what he called a “cowardly attack,” and offered his condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues
Read moreTexas Governor Designates Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
By MARK LORENZANA Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, Sept. 21, issued an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. He likewise instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to “take immediate action” to “keep Texans safe amid the growing national fentanyl crisis.” At the roundtable discussion and news conference, Abbott likewise sent a letter to U.S.
Read moreThe Dark Period When ‘Los Chapitos’ Assassinated 16 Policemen
By MARK LORENZANA On the morning of Sept. 30, 2016, a military convoy was ambushed by members of the Sinaloa Cartel on the highway that connects the municipalities of Badiraguato and Culiacán in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa. According to the version of the Mexican Army, three hours earlier, a military checkpoint tried to stop a truck in the
Read moreThe View from the North: Time to Turn, Turn, Turn…
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down in Mexico, the word is “homicides.” Unfortunately, there are too many of them. This is from Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News: “As of Thursday, Aug. 18, 128,923 homicides had been registered under (President Andrés Manuel) López Obrador (AMLO), with more than two years left in his term, which ends in December 2024. This
Read moreViolence, Terror Grip Mexican Border Cities
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after cartel violence wreaked mayhem in Mexico’s central states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, similar attacks gripped the country’s border city of Ciudad Juárez late Thursday, Aug. 11, leaving at least 11 people dead and six arrested, and Tijuana, on Friday, Aug. 12. Violence was also reported in the northern border towns of Mexicali, Rosarito
Read moreMexico City Police Seize 1.8 Tons of Cocaine in Record Drug Bust
By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City police seized around 1.8 tons of cocaine on Tuesday, July 26, in what was considered to be the biggest drug bust in the Mexican capital so far. Authorities estimated that the seized cocaine, which was being smuggled in two freight trucks, has a street value of 400 million pesos, and could even reach twice that
Read moreAt Least Three Injured in Playa del Carmen Shooting
By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on Saturday, July 23, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, has left at least three people injured, according to local reports. Surveillance cameras at a hotel captured the moment of the shooting, which caused tourists traversing Fifth Avenue — a popular street in Playa del Carmen filled with souvenir shops, restaurants
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