Spain Court Clears Extradition of Former Mexico Oil Chief
A Spanish court said on Monday it was allowing the extradition of a former chief executive of Mexican state oil company PEMEX accused of corruption to his home country.
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Ninth Circuit Nixes Trump Rule on Asylum
Refugees don’t have to be denied asylum in Mexico before applying in the United States, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, tossing aside a Trump administration rule.
Read moreAeroméxico Bankruptcy
Aeroméxico filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring assets and liabilities of $1 billion to $10 billion, making it the third major Latin American airline to file for bankruptcy during the Covid-19 pandemic; its major creditor is the Bank of New York Mellon: $411.4 million.
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24 Shot to Death at Drug Rehab Center in Mexico
Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said.
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Mexico’s Ex-Chief of Pemex Drops Extradition Fight
The former head of Mexico’s state oil company has dropped his extradition fight and agreed to return to Mexico to cooperate in corruption investigations, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said Tuesday.
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Supreme Court Demurs on Enviro Challenge to Southwest Border Wall
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a challenge by environmentalists over rule waivers issued by the Trump administration to speed up the construction of the wall along the border with Mexico.
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7.4 Earthquake Rocks Mexico, Kills at Least 5
A powerful earthquake centered near the Mexican resort Huatulco in Oaxaca state killed at least five people Tuesday, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets.
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Gunmen Kill Mexican Federal Judge, Wife, in Home Attack
A Mexican federal judge was shot dead Tuesday along with his wife after gunmen broke into their home in the state of Colima, the Supreme Court announced.
Read moreMexican Police Kill US Teenager in Oaxaca
A Mexican police officer in Oaxaca was presented in court on murder charges Friday after shooting a 16-year-old U.S. citizen in the head, killing him.
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US Sued Over Vanishing Vaquita, the World’s Smallest Porpoise
In a bid to protect an ever-dwindling species of porpoise, conservation groups blame the Trump administration in a federal complaint for giving Mexico a pass on reckless fishing practices.
Read moreLatin America Overwhelmed by Coronavirus
The reality of life in Latin America in May was more unpleasant than anyone could have imagined. Just six months ago things were exponentially better. Today, battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the poor have been beaten by loss of income and the need to violate quarantine merely to survive.
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Mexican Zoo Saves Animals Endangered by Virus Crisis
Kira, a 2-1/2-year-old tiger, arrived at a zoo in Mexico’s northeast in April after her owner could no longer feed her due to the coronavirus-induced economic collapse.
Read moreBorder Abuse
A 16-year-old girl sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the agents she says strip searched her without cause on her way home from Mexico with her adult sisters, in federal court.
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Researchers Discover Largest, Oldest Mayan Monument in Southern Mexico
At first, researchers thought an unassuming stretch of elevated cattle ranching land in rural Southern Mexico was just a naturally occurring plateau. Then they took a closer look.
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Tropical Storm Cristobal Threatens Mexican Coast
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, flooding Mexico’s southern Gulf coast and threatening more deadly inundations farther inland.
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In Mexico City, Experts Find Bones of Dozens of Mammoths
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
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Mexico City Virus Deaths 3 Times Those Reported
A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there were 4,577 cases in which doctors mentioned Covid-19 as a possible or probable cause of death, more than three times the official death toll in the city.
Read moreBeer Gone, Mexicans Dying From Poison Alcohol
Scores of Mexicans are dying from drinking adulterated liquor, a consequence of the shortage of mainstream alcoholic beverages during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities say.
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Pandemic Death Toll Surpasses 300,000 Worldwide
Worldwide deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 300,000 this week and despite the hopeful lifting of lockdowns in Europe and the United States, concerns are growing the virus may never be totally eradicated.
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Endangered Jaguar at Crux of New Border-Wall Fight
Three environmental groups challenging the border wall between the United States and Mexico argued Tuesday in a federal complaint that the plan will completely kill off a population of jaguar.
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