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HSBC gets off easy in ‘drug war’ case
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, will pay the US government $1.92 billion in fines for its failure to prevent the laundering of drug money—but no one will face criminal charges.
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Mexico bans Maya ceremony at ancestral temples
Tourists are flocking to Mexico for the “end of the Maya calendar,” but Maya elders protest that they are barred from performing ceremonies at the archeological sites.
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Mexico: will court ruling legalize same-sex marriage?
A panel of the Mexican Supreme Court decided unanimously to uphold a challenge that three same-sex couples brought against the marriage law in the southern state of Oaxaca.
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Mexico: evidence mounts of police repression on Dec. 1 inaugural
Protesters charge agents repeatedly attacked, beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators and bystanders while failing to arrest the people who had been engaged in vandalism.
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Mexico: Peña Nieto takes office as youths riot
Protests against Enrique Peña Nieto during his inauguration quickly turned into violent clashes between police and demonstrators that disrupted much of downtown Mexico City.
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Mexico: peasant ecologist killed in Guerrero
Juventina Villa Mojica, an environmental activist in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, was killed along with her 10-year-old son in a mountaintop attack by 30 gunmen.
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Mexico: more mass graves in Chihuahua, Guerrero
A total of 19 bodies were found in clandestine graves in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, after local police were tipped off by the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.
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Mexico: torture and disappearances on the rise
Complaints about abuses by Mexican police and soldiers have risen dramatically over the past seven years, according to the president of the government’s own human rights office.
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Mexico: pressure mounts for drug legalization
Mexican think-tanks say that state measures for cannabis legalization in the US will undercut cartel profits, and note that personal users bear the brunt of enforcement.
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Mexico: ‘labor reform’ passes; economists ‘upbeat’
The Mexican Senate passed a controversial “labor reform” after stripping out articles to promote union democracy; pro-business economists promise new growth for Mexico.
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Mexico: 14 police charged in attack on CIA agents
Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s Office confirmed that it was finally charging 14 federal police agents for an attack on a US embassy van more than two months earlier.
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Mexico: torture and abuse cases continue to increase
Complaints of torture and other abuse by the police and the military have tripled since 2008, as the government steps up its militarized “war on drugs.”