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Mexico

Environment Government International Regional 

Public Weighs Potential Fixes to Plug Sewage Problem at US-Mexico Border

April 20, 2021April 21, 2021 BIANCA BRUNO
borders, EPA, Mexico, pollution, sewage

A year ago the San Diego region secured $300 million to plug a decades-long wastewater pollution crises in waters that snake across the U.S.-Mexico border and dump raw sewage, trash and sediment into the Pacific Ocean.

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International Law Politics 

Growers Fret as Mexico Moves to Legalize Marijuana

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Drug cartels, drugs, marijuana, Mexico

Mexican legislation awaiting final Senate approval, which now may not come before September, would legalize pot production and sale for recreational use while creating a private market regulated by the government.

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Criminal International Politics 

Mexican Ex-Mayor Among Those Charged in Massive Miami Meth Haul: US

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Drug cartels, methamphetamine, Mexico, Miami, politician, trafficking

The United States has charged a Mexican ex-mayor and five others for trafficking the largest shipment of meth seized in Miami history, officials said Thursday.

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Courts Government International 

Migrants Freed Without Court Notice — Sometimes No Paperwork

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Border Patrol, ICE, immigration, Mexico

Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — time-saving moves that have left some migrants confused.

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Environment International Science 

In Quieter Mexico City, Rare Bats Make an Appearance

March 31, 2021April 1, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
animals, Mexico, Research, wildlife

At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat has begun visiting its favorite plants in this metropolis of 9 million.

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Appeals Business Criminal International 

German Court Upholds Conviction Over Illegal Arms Exports

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
exports, fines, Germany, Guns, Mexico

Germany’s highest court upheld a ruling on Tuesday fining gunmaker Heckler & Koch millions of dollars and handing suspended jail terms to two of its former employees for illegally exporting rifles to violence-torn Mexican states

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Health International 

San Diego Partners With Mexican Consulate to Vaccinate Immigrants

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 BIANCA BRUNO
coronavirus, Mexico, San Diego County, vaccines

The Mexican Consulate will administer 100 Covid vaccines a day, three days a week.

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Government International Law 

Mexico Limits Non-Essential Travel on Southern Border

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guatemala, immigration, Mexico, Travel

The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but essential travel at its shared border with Guatemala.

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Civil Rights Criminal International Media 

Journalists’ Group: 65 Media Workers Killed in 2020

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Journalism, Mexico, murder, prisons

A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists.

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Government International Politics 

Mexican Lawmakers to Vote on Legalizing Marijuana

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
bills, legislators, marijuana, Mexico

Mexican lawmakers were expected to vote Wednesday on whether to legalize recreational marijuana use — a move that could transform the land of the drug cartels into a huge regulated market.

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Criminal International 

US Court Denies Bail to Arrested Wife of El Chapo

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 SAMANTHA HAWKINS
Drug cartels, escape, Mexico, prisons

Said to have helped plan her husband’s intricate escape from a high-security Mexican prison, Emma Coronel Aispuro is accused of deep involvement in the inner workings of Mexico’s most notorious cartel.

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Criminal International Latest Headlines 

Wife of Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Arrested on US Drug Charges

February 22, 2021February 23, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, Drug cartels, drugs, Justice Department, Mexico

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Monday in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

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Criminal International Science 

Mexico Sends Remains to Austria in Missing Students Case

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
genetics, Mexico, students

Mexican investigators sent 16 sets of human remains to Austria for genetic analysis, the government said Thursday, to see if they match with any of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in a case that sparked international horror.

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Government National Politics 

US Lets in Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico, Ends Trump Policy

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 BIANCA BRUNO
Asylum, Biden administration, immigration, Mexico

The first couple dozen immigrants out of thousands forced to ‘Remain in Mexico’ under a Trump-era immigration policy entered the U.S. on Friday to start the asylum process.

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Government International 

History of Abuse for Mexican Police Unit in Migrant Massacre

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
corruption, Mexico, migrants, murder, Police

“It’s not news that some police units get involved in this kind of thing, not just violence, which is the most visible, but other things like aiding and abetting, and corruption,” Hernández said.

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Business Civil Rights Consumers Government International Media Technology 

Mexico to Allow Appeals on Social Media Account Cancellation

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
fines, Free Speech, Mexico, regulation, Social Media

The party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented for public comment a proposed set of regulations on Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies.

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Criminal Government International Media 

Mexico Arrests Ex-Governor in Case of Tortured Journalist

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, human rights, journalists, Mexico, torture

Mexican authorities arrested a former governor Wednesday on charges that he had a reporter who investigated his role in a pedophilia ring illegally arrested and tortured.

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International Op-Ed 

Watch What You Wish For

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 ROBERT KAHN
Biden administration, Mexico, RKahn

After the arrest this week of a dozen Mexican police officers for the murders of 19 refugees, it’s clear that the Biden administration needs to educate itself about Mexico and Central America.

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Criminal Government International 

Dozen State Police Charged in the Massacre of 19 in Mexico

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, Guatemala, Mexico, migrants, murder, Police

A dozen state police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the U.S. border late in January, Mexican authorities announced Tuesday.

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Government Health International 

Mexican President Tests Positive for Covid-19, Symptoms Mild

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
coronavirus, Mexico, politician

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was working from isolation on Monday, a day after announcing

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