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Mexico: center-right bloc pushes ‘labor reform’
The Chamber of Deputies passed changes to the labor code that union lawyers said would take the labor movement back to where it was before the 1910 Revolution.
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Mexico: Zetas’ ‘El Taliban’ busted by federals
Mexican naval forces announced the arrest of Iván Velázquez, AKA “El Taliban”—said to be a top commander of Los Zetas who had recently defected to the rival Gulf Cartel.
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Mexico: ambush of CIA agents mistaken identity?
Mexican authorities say federal police who ambushed a US embassy van carrying CIA agents, wounding two, simply confused the vehicle for one carrying kidnapping suspects.
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Report blasts US government for Fast and Furious
A government report on Operation Fast and Furious criticized officials but didn’t find evidence to back up conspiracy theories favored by the gun lobby.
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Army troops sent to patrol Mexico City suburb
Mexico has for the first time sent soldiers to patrol suburbs of the capital, following the slaying of a politician in Nezahualcóyotl—the latest in a wave of killings in the district.
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Mexico’s prez-elect broaches oil privatization —almost
As a devastating blast rocked a Pemex plant, Mexico’s president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto told business leaders the private sector will help modernize the state-owned giant.
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Mexico: blows against cartels claimed, bloodletting continues
Mexican naval forces in the oil port of Tampico, Tamaulipas, on Sept. 13 arrested Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez AKA “El Coss“—notorious leader of the Gulf Cartel—along with five cohorts, apparently without resistance. Authorities hailed it as a major blow against the cartel,… Read moreMexico: blows against cartels claimed, bloodletting continues
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Mexico: persecuted gay teacher wins asylum in US
The US has granted political asylum to Mexican teacher Agustín Estrada, who claims México state authorities fired, beat and gang-raped him because he was openly gay.
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Mexico ex-prez gets immunity in massacre suit
The US State Department issued a finding that Mexico’s ex-president Ernesto Zedillo should be immune from a suit brought against him in connection with the 1997 Acteal massacre.
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Mexico: CIA agents hit in ambush by federal police?
The Mexican daily La Jornada reported on Aug. 28 that the two US agents wounded in a shooting incident near Tres Marías in Morelos on Aug. 24 were from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), not the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Citing unidentified “official… Read moreMexico: CIA agents hit in ambush by federal police?
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Mexican peace caravan ‘disarms Houston’
Relatives of victims of drug-related violence in Mexico protested lax US gun control laws by destroying two US-purchased firearms in a public park in Houston.
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Mexico: PRI candidate declared winner, students protest
Students held a “funeral for democracy” in reponse to the official designation of Enrique Peña Nieto, from the once-entrenched PRI machine, as Mexico’s next president.