(BBC – Washington) «US President Donald Trump has threatened to use military force to completely close the US-Mexico border.
The warning, via a series of tweets on Thursday, comes as a new caravan of more than 3,000 migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala heads north.
Mr Trump has already threatened to cut all aid payments to the three countries over illegal immigration.
The group says they are fleeing violence and poverty.»
(The Guardian) Mexico City — A former Mexican state governor has pleaded guilty to charges of criminal association and money laundering, after presiding over an administration whose thuggery and excesses outraged the public – and eventually proved too embarrassing for his political allies.
Javier Duarte, 45, was accused of embezzling millions in state money, which he used to buy a string of artworks and luxury properties. During his 2010-2016 administration, the Gulf coast region of Veracruz became one of Mexico’s most dangerous, most censored and most indebted states.
(New York Times) Like all reality shows of its type, “Made in Mexico” presents a parallel world of artificial intimacy and fabricated intrigue. In this case, though, the cocooning effect is more noticeable.
The show moves in a glitter-zone of skyscrapers, luxury apartments, expensive restaurants and family horse ranches. The non-glamorous are kept in the background. One of the socialites, who claims to be descended from an Aztec emperor, says of her circle, “Mexico City is very closed” — the metropolitan area’s 21 million other residents apparently slipped her mind.
WASHINGTON (AP) — American dairy farmers get more access to the Canadian market. U.S. drug companies can fend off generic competition for a few more years. Automakers are under pressure to build more cars where workers earn decent wages.
The North American trade agreement hammered out late Sunday between the United States and Canada, following an earlier U.S.-Mexico deal, shakes up — but likely won’t revolutionize — the way businesses operate within the three-country trade bloc.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Heavily armed Mexican marines and soldiers stormed on Tuesday the police force of violent port city Acapulco on suspicions of ties to organized crime, arresting two officers accused of homicide and seizing weapons and equipment.
Acapulco in southern Guerrero state, once a glamorous beach resort for Hollywood’s rich and famous, has fallen on hard times as entrenched drug crime has transformed it into one of the most murderous cities in the world.
Guerrero is a hub for opium poppy production and the scene of frequent violent clashes between warring drug cartels.
The military personnel, along with federal and state police and the Guerrero state’s attorney general’s office, disarmed Acapulco municipal police officers and arrested two of them for their “probable responsibility” in homicide, they said in a joint statement.
Acapulco’s other police officers are under investigation, the group said, without specifying how many, adding that weapons, bulletproof vests, ammunition and radios were seized.
There were over 30,000 murders across Mexico last year, the highest in records going back to 1997, as rival drug gangs splintered into smaller, more bloodthirsty groups following more than a decade of a military-led campaign to battle the cartels.
Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Jonathan Oatis.
(ESPN/NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — «Any time you get to play Mexico it’s a special day,» said U.S. captain Wil Trapp. «To be playing on 9/11 is even more powerful, emotional, exciting I think for all of us as players because of what that day means to our country, what it symbolizes in terms of what happened as well as the heroism that came out of it. It will be an exciting game for us as players, there will be a lot of emotions wrapped into it.»
(REMEZCLA, MEXICO CITY) – «A new Mexican Nike ad is looking to leverage the athletic motto into a 21st century woke anthem. The “Juntas Inseparables – Just Do It” ad aims to offer young women all across Mexico (and arguably Latin America and beyond) the chance to see a feminist spin on the iconic sneakers mantra. The video commercial is set during an interminable traffic jam in Mexico City. As annoyed Chilangos of all stripes sulk in their cars, Olympic athlete Paola Morán is seen running around slowly amassing a throng of women in Nike gear around her that eventually get to the root of the problem and find a way to keep moving forward.»
(CITY LAB, MEXICO CITY) – «The lemon juice traditionally used by Mexicans as a fixative for thick, bristly black hair has long been replaced by mousse, then gel, and now, wax. And the profession itself, long dominated by women into the 1970s, is now mostly occupied by men. Miguel Angel Garcia, 65, with 35 years of experience cutting the hair of the cultural and bureaucratic elites of Coyoacan, says the shift happened around the same time as unisex hairstylists started to appear. Beards have also come into fashion, coming to the capital from Mexico’s more rural states around 2015 and igniting a boom of barbershops.»
NEW YORK TIMES, MEXICO CITY — «Mexican authorities said Thursday they found a mass grave with 168 human skulls in Veracruz State, a somber reminder of the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing, presumably at the hands of organized crime members.
The remains and personal items found at the site, including 200 articles of clothing, suggested that the victims might have been killed two years ago, said Jorge Winckler Ortiz, the Veracruz attorney general.
It is one of the biggest clandestine graves found in Mexico in recent years.»
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