Meth worth nearly $6m found in fake watermelons at US-Mexico border
Imitation fruits and vegetables are the latest ‘sophisticated’ tactic for Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs into the US Everyday fruit and vegetables are some of...
Category : Mexico
Inquiry into Mexico’s ‘dirty war’ obstructed by military and other agencies, board says
Report details years of abuse in 90s during authoritarian one-party system, but says its inquiries were often stymied An independent commission charged by Mexico’s president...
Migrant crossings have plunged after Biden’s asylum ban. But top Democrats are asking: at what price?
Congress members are saying asylum seekers are ‘forced to wait in danger’ as advocates try to get them legal protection In early June, Ofelia Arrellano...
US judge derails Mexico’s $10bn trafficking suit against US gunmakers
Lawsuit seeks to hold American manufacturers responsible for trafficking of firearms to drug cartels across border A US judge has dismissed much of Mexico’s unprecedented...
Venezuela: Blinken congratulates González on winning election as more countries come out against Maduro
US secretary of state also voices concern for opposition candidate’s safety while Venezuelan government accuses Washington of leading ‘coup attempt’ The US secretary of state,...
Son of El Chapo pleads not guilty in Chicago as mystery cloaks cartel arrests
Officials have mixed accounts around arrest of Sinaloa co-founder El Mayo after Guzmán López turned himself in Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Sinaloa cartel...
More than 500 Mexicans flee to Guatemala to escape cartel violence in Chiapas
Chiapas, once a haven for Guatemalans fleeing genocide, sees citizens crossing border to escape tyranny of cartels The Mexican state of Chiapas was once a...
Mexico president calls for ‘transparency’ amid secrecy over Sinaloa cartel arrests
US announces arrest of two leaders of organised crime group as Mexican authorities say they were in the dark The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López...
Top leaders of powerful Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in Texas
Ismael Zambada Garcia, known as ‘El Mayo’, and Joaquin Guzman accused of fentanyl production and trafficking The US justice department has arrested two leaders of...
Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City
Galvanized by the 2016 murder of trans sex worker Paola Buenrostro, activists applaud law as critical for feeling safe When the trans sex worker Paola...
