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Mexico: police shoot up US embassy car
A group of Mexican federal police agents attacked a US embassy car. Mexican authorities attributed the incident to “confusion”: the US embassy called it an “ambush.”
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Mexico: victory for campesino struggle against La Parota dam
The governor of Mexico’s Guerrero state signed an agreement with campesino communities pledging not to move ahead with La Parota hydro-dam without their consent.
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Mexico: Wal-Mart faces money laundering scandal
Two US Congress members say there’s evidence that Wal-Mart Stores didn’t take legally required steps to prevent money laundering and tax evasion through its Mexican subsidiary.
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Did Romney donor’s casino launder drug money?
The US is investigating possible money laundering through a Las Vegas casino company owned by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a major donor to the Republican Party.
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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.