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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, appointed Gen. Oscar Naranjo, former chief of Colombia's National Police, to work as an "external advisor" for public security if he wins the July 1 election.
Students aren’t the only people questioning Peña Nieto’s favorable coverage in Mexico’s media. US diplomats were secretly suspicious of the media coverage and the opinion polls when he was still a governor, WikiLeaks reveals.
Police agents in Lagos de Moreno in the western state of Jalisco allegedly helped in the kidnapping of three men who were later found murdered. The agents are believed to have been working for a drug gang.
Federal agents raided New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs racetrack in a crackdown on Zeta cartel stateside money-laundering operations. Meanwhile, narco-arson attacks hit five Mexico warehouses of US-owned junk food giant Sabritas.
Mexico’s largest TV network was paid in 2005 to have its news and entertainment programs influence voters’ perceptions of various politicians, according to documents given to The Guardian—generally favoring the PRI and PAN.
