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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: more Pemex contract scandals exposed
As the Mexican government pushes to get more private contractors for its oil company, Reuters reveals that 8% of the current contracts have serious problems.
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Mexico: cops arrested in ‘disappearance’ of reporter
Mexican authorities detained 13 police officers in the state of Veracruz in connection with the abduction of a journalist who aggressively covered local narco-corruption.
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Mexico: students’ parents storm army base
Parents of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students insist that the military knows more than it admits about their abduction. Meanwhile, the government's version gets shakier and shakier.
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Mexico: protests follow Peña Nieto to Washington
President Obama offered to help Mexico fight corruption and political violence, probably by more funding for programs that protesters say simply fuel the crisis.
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Chicago link to Mexican mass abduction?
Another major bust of an accused Mexican cartel operative in Chicago this time involves the Guerreros Unidos—the gang named in the the disappearance of 43 college students.
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Mexico: Raúl Salinas cleared in corruption case
He put millions in Swiss bank accounts when he was a low-paid official and his brother was president, but the courts have ruled there's not enough evidence of corruption.
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Mexico: migrant massacre document released
Mexican federal prosecutors have released a document from their probe into a 2010 massacre of migrants—pointing to collusion between local police and Los Zetas.
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Sentencing in Sinaloa Cartel’s Chicago connection
A case related to the Sinaloa Cartel's Chicago connection provided further fodder for the increasingly plausible theory that the DEA protected Mexico's biggest crime machine.
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Mexico: official Ayotzinapa story questioned
The Mexican government attributes the massacre of students in September entirely to local corruption and drug dealing. A new report raises the possibility of a cover-up.
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Mexico: one of missing students confirmed dead
Austrian experts have identified remains of one of 43 missing Guerrero students. Meanwhile, the authorities want laws to limit the protests over the students' abduction.
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Mexico: protests link Ayotzinapa, Ferguson, Garner
Mexican protesters in the US see a link between police killings in the two countries. "Our governments are working together to oppress us, so why shouldn't we be working together?"