Following a meeting of the Trilateral Fentanyl Committee, the United States a invited Mexico to add its agents to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Centers
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The intent is clearly to curtail tobacco use in future generations with no visible displays of tobacco products in stores, protecting children from second-hand smoke while in public
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Until now, smoking has been mostly controlled with each state’s laws and some larger cities, which could have had environmental laws that addressed smoking
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As of Sunday, Jan. 15, smoking tobacco in public places is now illegal across Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, May 31 – also known as World No Tobacco Day – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) signed a decree banning the circulation of and marketing of electronic cigarettes and vaporizers, extending his previous decree from October 2021, which put prohibitory limits on the imports and exports of the smoking devices. “The industry claims
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Nearly a decade after the failed U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gun-running sting called Fast and Furious ended in the tragic Arizona desert murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is now demanding clarification about the bilateral operation, and has asked for a formal
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Child Gunman Shocks Nation Eleven-year old elementary school student José Ángel Ramos requested permission to go to the bathroom on Friday, Jan. 10, but when he did not return, English teacher María Assaf Medina went looking for him in the washroom and found him. José Ángel had changed out of his uniform and dressed himself
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the United States may have serious and justified concerns about a porous border with Mexico allowing illicit drugs and undocumented immigrants entering its territory unlawfully, Mexico is equally concerned about the illicit flow of firearms into its territory. According to Renato Sales Heredia, head of Mexico’s National Security Commission (CNS), at least 2,000 illegal firearms enter the
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