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Mexico: six killed in latest mining disaster
Six Mexican coal miners were killed when some 100 tons of coal and rock collapsed in a mine operated by AHMSA company in the northern state of Coahuila.
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Mexico: money laundering scandals multiply
At an unusual joint press conference in Mexico City on July 19, the presidents of Mexico’s governing center-right National Action Party (PAN) and the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) called on the federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to… Read moreMexico: money laundering scandals multiply
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Mexico: more protests planned against ‘imposition’
Thousands of people marched in Mexico City on July 22 to protest what they called the “imposition” of Enrique Peña Nieto, the official winner in the July 1 presidential election, and his party, the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Signs and… Read moreMexico: more protests planned against ‘imposition’
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Mexico: thousands protest “imposition” of PRI
With chants of “Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,” thousands of Mexico City residents responded to the country’s July 1 presidential and legislative elections with a massive and apparently spontaneous march repudiating the results.
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Mexico: left makes moderate gains in elections
In a closer-than-expected race, Enrique Peña Nieto of the centrist PRI won the presidency with 38.22% of the votes, according to officials, followed by center-left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador with 31.57%.
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Mexico: foreign banks investigated in drug money laundering
The US government is investigating money laundering through the HSBC-Mexico, a subsidiary Europe’s largest bank. The bank is expected to end up paying a fine of more than $1 billion.
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Mexico: new facts emerge on Fast and Furious
Republicans, Democrats, the NRA, the ATF, the US Attorney in Arizona, the FBI—they all seem to have a hand in the United States’ failure to stop the smuggling of assault weapons to Mexico.
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Mexico: PRI regains the presidency
A rapid count shows the PRI’s Enrique Peña Nieto winning with about 38% of the votes, followed by center-left Andrés Manuel López Obrador with almost 32%; ruling party candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota came in third.
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Mexico City airport shoot-out leaves three dead
Three Federal Police officers were killed in a shoot-out with two other Federal Police at a food court in Mexico City’s airport. The Federal District police commander denied any knowledge of narco-corruption at the facility.
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Republicans push “Fast and Furious” conspiracy theory
Mexicans go on dying in the “drug war,” while in the US the gun lobby tries to blame gun control advocates for the flow of US-purchased assault weapons to the Mexican drug gangs.
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Mexico: OAS agency reports eight LGBT murders in Guerrero
The OAS human rights commission reports that eight members of the LGBT community in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero have been murdered since the beginning of the year.
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Mexico: El Chapo’s son not arrested; hidden war in Tamaulipas goes on
It made headlines when Mexican officials had to back-pedal after announcing they had arrested the son of fugitive kingpin Chapo Guzmán, but the real war underway just over the Texas line in Tamaulipas remains invisible.