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Trump threatens to invade Mexico: reports
Amid deteriorating relations between the US and Mexico, reports emerge that President Trump threatened military intervention in a phone call with his counterpart Peña Nieto.
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Mexico: El Chapo son abducted by cartel rivals
The Mexican state of Jalisco is bracing for a feared explosion of violencie after the son of the country's top drug lord, "Chapo" Guzmán, was kidnapped by rivals.
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Mexico rights commission: 22 civilians ‘executed’
According to a report issued by Mexico's independent National Human Rights Commission, 22 civilians were executed during a May 2015 drug raid in Michoacán.
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Mexico: new ‘massacre’ in Michoacán
Survivors are questioning official accounts of a shoot-out between Mexican federal forces and a narco gang that left over 40 dead in the Michoacán town of Tanhuato.
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Chiapas peasants march against narco-violence
Maya indigenous peasants in Mexico's southern Chiapas state marched cross-country to oppose violence by narco gangs and the corruption of local authorities that protect them.
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Mexico: authorities ‘rescue’ maquila workers
The Mexican government said it raided an assembly plant in Jalisco and saved 129 workers from labor abuse, although there are now some questions about the action.
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Mexico: a new Pax Mafiosa?
Reports of a summit of cartel "capos" in Piedras Negras fuel speculation that President Enrique Peña Nieto seeks to rebuild the "Pax Mafiosa" of Mexico's old one-party state.
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Mexico busts Jalisco cartel kingpin
Mexican security forces announced the arrest of a top leader of the New Generation drug cartel, based in the western state of Jalisco, and linked to the Michoacán violence.
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Mexico: Colima campesinos declare mine-free zone
The Nahua indigenous community of Zacualpan, Colima state, pledge to resist expansion of a Canadian-owned gold mine in their territory, citing a threat to local waters.
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Narco-terrorism in Michoacán
Nearly half a million were left without electricity after 18 substations were blown up in a wave of coordinated attacks across Mexico’s west-central state of Michoacán.
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Mexico: notorious kingpin Caro Quintero freed
Mexico’s most notorious kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released from Puente Grande federal prison in Jalisco where he had been incarcerated for the past 28 years.
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Mexico: bloody Christmas in Michoacán, Sinaloa
A spate of shootouts between rival cartels and police forces left over 20 dead around the Christmas holiday in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Jalisco and Sinaloa.