CARGO EXTORTION THREAT IN MATAMOROS, MEXICO
OSAC.gov reported on July 29th at approximately 0900, an overland cargo company contracted by an OSAC constituent was targeted for extortion in Matamoros, Mexico. A truck delivering supplies to Saltillo via the FINSA industrial park was stopped by a group of individuals claiming to be Gulf Cartel members. The incident occurred on Avendia Uniones in proximity to the FINSA industrial park. The assailants demanded the driver call their supervisor at the company office and told the supervisor that the truck driver and cargo would proceed unharmed if the company agreed to pay $5000 Mexican pesos a month for every other truck traveling through this route in the state of Tamaulipas. The incident was reported to the local army base by the contracted company, but they were told by the Mexican Army to contact the Tamaulipas State Attorney General’s office. The company declined to do so because of a lack of trust in the Tamaulipas State Attorney General. The company intends to continue operations along the same route. At the time this report was submitted, no additional security countermeasures have been employed by truck drivers along this route. Read Article – Subscription Required
bbc.com reported that Guatemala, Mexico and the United States have reached a deal to try to prevent migrants from jumping onto a freight train in an attempt to reach the US, according to Guatemalan officials. Tens of thousands of migrants stow away on the train, known as La Bestia (The Beast), every year. Hundreds are […]
bbc.com reported journalists in Mexico have criticised a new law that restricts crime reporting in north-western Sinaloa state. The legislation bans journalists from taking pictures and recording video or audio at a crime scene. Journalists will have to rely on official information approved by the Prosecutor’s Office to report on crime. Media organisations, journalist unions […]
dailymail.co.uk – The dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it. Dr. Mike ‘Doc’ Vickers of Brooks County, Texas showed some of the grisly images to MailOnline, […]
voxnews.com/EFE reported Legislators in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa passed a measure that bars reporters from crime scenes and sharply limits the press’ ability to cover issues of public safety and criminal justice. The proposal, submitted by state Gov. Mario Lopez, was unanimously approved Thursday night, though one lawmaker admitted later that she voted […]
(Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) said on Monday it would sell its Mexican and Brazilian poultry businesses to JBS SA (JBSS3.SA) for $575 million and use the proceeds to pay down debt from its pending $7.7 billion purchase of Hillshire Brands Co. (HSH.N) Tyson, the world’s second-biggest meat processor behind Brazil’s JBS, also reported […]
bbc.com reported a Mexican company behind a mobile app which gives people a warning before an impending earthquake has apologised after it issued a false alarm. Thousands of Mexico City residents evacuated buildings at noon on Monday after the SkyAlert app told them to prepare for “a quake within seconds” in their area. SkyAlert said […]
reliefweb.int reported a 6.3-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico on Tuesday, killing an elderly woman who fell as she fled her home and injuring another woman who evacuated from a hospital. The epicenter was in the east coast state of Veracruz, where residents and tourists fled homes and hotels. Authorities found no damage after reviewing the Laguna […]
More than 30 police officers have been arrested in Mexico for alleged organized crime ties and possible involvement in the killing of fellow cops, authorities said Sunday. Those detained include a former top public safety chief from the town of Tarimbaro, an ex-commander of the same unit and 18 more active duty agents, a public […]
latimes.com reported…Not only have more unaccompanied children illegally crossed the southern border this year — more than twice last year’s total — but they are crossing at much younger ages, according to a study released this week. There has been a 117% increase in apprehensions among unaccompanied children ages 12 and younger and a 12% […]
bakersfieldnow.com reported what began as a vacation with friends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, turned tragic for 36-year-old Brian Hodges of Bakersfield. “Things were going great,” said Calvin Black, who, with his wife Enjoli Black, and their two children and cousin, accompanied Brian and Shimeaka Hodges to Cabo San Lucas. The group arrived in the […]
bworldonline.com reported… An ancient megalopolis built in a drained lake rimmed by mountains, Mexico City consistently flies under the radar. Lacking the samba-steeped allure of Rio de Janeiro or the chic intellectualism of Buenos Aires, Latin America’s biggest city has failed to shed an unfair reputation for crime and pollution. BICYCLES on Paseo de la […]
RINCON PENINSULA, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com. The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of […]
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CNN.com reported, Harry Devert left a job as a trader in finance to take a transcontinental motorcycle journey from the United States to Latin America. Six months ago, he vanished after sending his girlfriend in New York an ominous text message from a troubled region in Mexico, about being escorted from “an area too dangerous […]
reuters.com reported the Mexican conglomerate Bimbo, a large bread maker is set to acquire the Ecuadorian bread maker Supan. The reason for the purchase is to expand Bimbo’s presence in South America. The Ecuadorian firm employs 900 among two factories located in Guayaquil and Quito. The sale price was not disclosed. Read Article
slate.com reported if you listened closely during Mexico’s match against Croatia on Monday, you might have heard fans of El Tri shouting the Spanish word puto during goal kicks. Despite how it sounds, puto does not mean point or punt. In fact, the word is a clear, if somewhat semantically sophisticated, anti-gay slur, which is […]
examiner.com reported on Monday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference in Playas de Catazaja, Mexico, to officially announce an agreement to make it easier for those making the illegal journey to the United States from Central America, to cross into Mexico. The Southern Border Program […]
bloomberg.com reported Mexico is poised to overtake Brazil as the top Latin American automobile producer for the first time in more than a decade as surging exports to the U.S. spur factory openings and record output. After nosing ahead of Brazil in the first six months of the year, Mexico is projected to hold its […]
presstv.ir reported recent crime statistics released in Mexico City have revealed that the enormous rate of unsolved crimes is due to a lack of manpower in law enforcement. Of the two hundred thousand crimes reported in 2013, less than nine thousand officials were available to handle them. In Iztapalapa, the capital’s most dangerous borough and […]
m.appeal.democrat.com reported the lower house of Mexico’s Congress approved tough restrictions on dominant companies in the country’s telephone and television sectors early Wednesday after 20 hours of debate and discussion. The new rules must still be signed into law, but they have already forced the nation’s leading telephone carrier to offer to sell off part […]
AFP reported the theft of a vehicle in Mexico containing a potentially deadly radioactive material briefly raised alarm Friday — but the container was found with no leak or harm to the population. The truck, which was transporting deadly iridium-192, a radioactive substance used in making some industrial products, had been stolen Thursday, federal civil […]
theblaze.com reported U.S. law enforcement officials have been finding “cheat sheets” along the border used by illegal immigrants to try to stay in the United States and not get deported after they’ve been caught. The notes, believed to be supplied by human trafficking groups, give pointers in Spanish on what immigrants should say when confronted […]
tucsonnewsnow.com reported a Mexican law enforcement helicopter crossed the U.S. border southwest of Tucson and fired shots on the morning of Thursday, June 26, according to a statement from U.S. Border Patrol. The release said the helicopter crossed approximately 100 yards into Arizona, about eight miles southwest of the village of San Miguel on the […]
mynorthwest.com reported U.S. Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wash) is speaking out on behalf of a Renton woman who’s been held in a Mexican prison for 10 months. Smith tells KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz that Nestora Salgado, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Renton, was trying to help fight crime in her old hometown in Mexico when she […]
mining.com reported Mexico has become Latin America’s most expensive country for mining investments, as the country is rolling out its energy reforms approved last year, which increases taxes from 5% to 7.5%, charged as a percentage of profits. Gold and silver miners are the ones that will hurt the most, as they now have to […]
Jose Diaz Barajas Detained examiner.com reported the 49 year old Brajas was arrested yesterday in Rio de Janero, while trying to catch a flight to Fortaleza in order to watch the Mexican national soccer team play against the tournament favourite, Brazil. According to Bloomberg, Luiz Cravo Dorea, head of international cooperation at the Federal Police, […]
chron.com/AP reported four journalists have been injured when masked protesters attacked them after smashing windows during a march through Mexico City. The protesters had joined a larger march Tuesday honoring students killed in government repression of a 1971 demonstration. The youths broke windows at bus stops, stores and the ruling party headquarters Tuesday before turning […]
reuters.com reported…To grasp the difficulties Mexico faces in capitalizing on a North American shale boom, just wander into the dusty landscape due south of the U.S. border. On one side of the fence, thousands of wells work around the clock in Texas to produce record volumes of shale oil and gas, transforming towns like Carrizo […]
univision.com reported an anonymous caller reported the existence of five clandestine graves in the community of Zumpango in the southern state of Guerrero, where Mexican authorities found the bodies of at least 13 people. Guerrero authorities established an operating with the support of State, federal police and the army, which was accompanied by experts from […]
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fronterasdesk.org reported in recent months there’s been a notable uptick in Central American families and unaccompanied children coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. The largest share of migrants are coming through Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. For the first time in 16 years, that sector has surpassed Border Patrol’s Tucson sector as the busiest location for apprehending […]
bbc.com reported that Mexico has published new sentencing guidelines that will double prison sentences for kidnapping.The minimum prison term has risen from 20 to 40 years. It will apply for all abductions, including those that last only a few hours or days, so-called “express kidnappings”. The maximum prison sentence will rise from 50 to 140 […]
laht.com reported that the body of a kidnapped journalist who held a post with the Acapulco city government was found in a clandestine grave in a town outside the Mexican Pacific resort, officials said. Jorge Torres Palacios, who served as the spokesman for the Acapulco health department, was kidnapped by gunmen last week, the Guerrero […]
laht.com reported, toughly 37 percent of companies have fallen victim to crime of some form, including corruption, robbery of merchandise, shoplifting, kidnapping and extortion, the head of the Coparmex employers’ association said. Crime and a climate of insecurity in Mexico cost companies some 75 billion pesos ($5.8 billion) annually, the head of the Coparmex employers’ […]
nogales.usconsulate.gov reported…Due to multiple and ongoing credible threats the Consulate cautions Americans traveling in Nogales or surrounding areas to defer unnecessary travel at this time. Travel at night and to areas not frequented by foreigners should be avoided. U.S. Citizens are urged to take the highest precautions regarding their safety and personal security in and […]
latino.foxnews.com reported Mexican authorities discovered the body of an Arizona man killed execution-style on the main highway south of the dangerous border city of Nogales on Monday, hours after the U.S. Consulate General in the city issued a travel advisory for the region. Police said that the body of Jorge Luis Soto, 25, was found […]
aircargoworld.com reported Qatar Airways Cargo will start operating twice-weekly freighter service to Mexico City on June 11. This new route will mark the start of Qatar Airways Cargo operations in Latin America. “The first Qatar Airways Cargo flight to Mexico will be a historic moment for us, as it heralds the beginning of our operations […]
Mexico’s President vowed on Friday to launch an all-out battle against a spate of bullying in schools after a 12-year-old boy died from injuries sustained in a beating by classmates. Hector Alejandro Mendez Ramirez died of head trauma at a hospital on Tuesday, one week after schoolmates slammed him against a wall in front of […]
dailymail.co.uk reported two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them. One reads ‘silver or lead’ in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels’ bribes or die. Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with […]
North America’s Oldest Skeleton Discovery: 13,000-Year-Old Body of ‘Naia’ Discovered in Mexico ibtimes.co.uk reported one of the oldest human skeletons in North America has been discovered by a team of international scientists in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave. Named “Naia”, the teenager fell to her death in a large pit called Hoyo Nego, meaning “black […]
cnn.com reported the number of expats living in Mexico has continued to grow, local officials say, despite safety concerns from the drug violence which has made headlines around the world. Jesus Gallegos Álvarez, tourism secretary of Jalisco state, where Puerto Vallarta is located, was gunned down in March 2013 in the city of Zapopan. It’s […]
4-traders.com reported Citigroup Inc has fired four senior executives and seven other employees, saying they failed to do enough to protect the bank from loan fraud at its Mexican unit Banamex, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Wednesday. With the latest round of firings, the bank has terminated a dozen employees after […]
dailymail.co.uk reported Canadian Mennonite farmers with century-old ties to Mexico have been identified by drug agencies as the latest threat of bringing cartel cocaine north of the border. Recent cases have highlighted the problem including the trial of farmer Jacob Fehr who was jailed for seven years last week for smuggling cocaine from Chihuahua, Mexico […]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexico’s government decided Tuesday to increase military control over security in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas and purge corrupt police to reverse a surge in drug cartel violence. Clashes between cartel gunmen and troops as well as street gunfights among gang members have left more than 80 people dead in […]
kentucky.com/AP reported…Environmentalists say the only living hard coral reef in the Gulf of California is once again under threat, just two years after activists persuaded the government to block construction of a huge 30,000-room resort nearby. Once an overfished area, marine life around the Cabo Pulmo reef just outside Los Cabos exploded following a decision […]
theguardian.com reported…a spate of extreme violence in Mexico’s north-eastern Tamaulipas state has ended the relative calm in the region where the country’s drug wars began. Officials say about 80 people have been killed in almost daily street battles. This week the state’s top detective, Salvador de Haro Muñoz, was among five people killed in a […]
chicagotribune.com/rueters reported…A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison. Leo Sharp, a decorated World War Two combat veteran who turned 90 on Wednesday, was also sentenced to three years supervised release by Judge Nancy Edmunds in U.S. […]
lubbockonline.com/AP reported Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter said in the letter that Afghanistan war veteran Andrew Tahmooressi had just moved to San Diego from Florida and had all his belongings in his truck, including his pistol, shotgun and rifle, when he missed the last U.S. exit on April 1, forcing him to cross the border. Road […]
presstv.ir reported that the month of March witnessed a 10-percent increase in homicides in Mexico City where its 21 million inhabitants saw over 14-hundred murder cases. Although police forces have a strong presence in the magacity, many people think they should concentrate their efforts in the capital’s troubled areas.In addition to murders, other crimes such […]
eluniversal.com.mx reported that according to Cofepris, Jalisco is a State where there is a high marketing of illegal drugs; in the last two years here has managed to seize 96% of the products seized in the entire country. At the end of 2013, the Agency reported on a historic seizure: secured 166 tons of medicine […]
undercurrentnews.com reported the Mexican state of Chiapas expects to become Latin America’s largest tilapia producer, and the largest exporter of fresh fillets to the US, thanks to funds to be awarded to the aquaculture group Dos Lagos, reported Milenio. “[Dos Lagos’ production] will make Chiapas the main producer of this fish in Latin America and […]
ndtv.com reported..In March, a month after she left home, the police picked up Noemi and a coyote in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The authorities took her to a children’s shelter. She was described as crying inconsolably after being questioned by a prosecutor. A few days later, she was found hanged from a shower curtain rod in […]
theguardian.com reported a powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital and sending people running out into the street, although there were no early reports of major damage. The magnitude 7.2 quake was centered in the south-western state of Guerrero, close to the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, the US Geological Survey […]
IPS reports…Scientists warn that large-scale fracking for shale gas planned by Mexico’s oil company Pemex will cause a surge in seismic activity in northern Mexico, an area already prone to quakes. Experts link a 2013 swarm of earthquakes in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León to hydraulic fracturing or fracking in the Burgos […]
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ultimasnoticiasenred.com.mx reported that Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.The figure of the first cases of dengue fever in Tamaulipas arrived in 25 cases reported today the Secretary of health in the State, Norberto Treviño Garcia-Manzo, who said that the same dates last year were reported 104 cases of dengue fever. HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF MOVING TO ECUADOR? READ […]
chron.com AP reported that a top leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel was killed Monday in a clash with Mexican marines, officials said. The officials said Enrique Plancarte died in the central state of Queretaro, but they wouldn’t give other details. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to […]
forbes.com reported that in March, Michoacan, Mexico, continued to witness activity related to organized crime and the heavily armed citizen militias who have risen up to confront the gunmen from the state’s Caballeros Templarios cartel. In addition to experiencing severe security problems in many rural areas, Michoacan has also seen attacks against electricity infrastructure, trucks […]
bloombergview.com reported ….Why does Mexico, the biggest lime producer, also have the world’s most expensive limes? Ask the country’s crime bosses. Mexico’s mobsters are squeezing lime growers and no one seems to be doing anything about it. The racket goes like this: criminals in lime growing states block roads and extort a fee for every […]
Washingtonpost.com/AP reported that the Mexican government has chosen the man who runs its national security council to be the new chief of federal police two days after the previous official resigned. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said Tuesday that Monte Alejandro Rubido is replacing Manuel Mondragon as the head of the National Security Commission. […]
csmonitor.com reported that there were 8,042 cases of extortion reported in Mexico in 2013, up from 7,272 a year earlier, according to statistics from Mexico’s federal government. In the State of Mexico, which features numerous poor Mexico City suburbs, there were 1,668 reported cases, a 58 percent increase from 2012. Data from January indicates the […]
theguardian.com reported that police detain alleged cartel member on suspicion of kidnapping people, including children, and harvesting their organs. Carlos Castellanos Becerra, Michoacan’s public safety secretary, alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of a cartel ring that would target people with certain characteristics, especially children, for kidnapping and harvesting organs. He did not give […]
Diversification of Knights Templar cartel latest sign of drug syndicates’ expanding criminal portfolios. The pseudo-religious Knights Templar drug cartel in western Mexico has diversified to the point that drug trafficking doesn’t rank among its top sources of income, according to the Mexican government’s special envoy to Michoacán. The cartel counts illegal mining, logging and extortion […]
fox17online.com reported that a 21-year-old Michigan State University student is coming forward with her horrific story to warn people about safety measures while they’re on spring break. The student, who has asked to remain anonymous, told WJBK that she was abducted and raped while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which is in the […]
theguardian.com reported that witnesses claim founder of anti-drug cartel movement was part of group that killed two men whose bodies were set ablaze. The leader of a civilian “self-defence” group in Mexico has been arrested for allegedly participating in the killings of two men, according to authorities. Prosecutors say Hipólito Mora was detained on Tuesday […]
Elpais.com reported that about 6 million and a half of Mexicans have been diagnosed with diabetes and it is estimated that this figure will be rising due to the high number of overweight and obese adults, that together they reach 48 million people, according to the national health and nutrition 2012 survey. This chronic disease […]
Elpais.com reported five percentage points of taxes are measured in money but also in time and distance. The industry know it well because, from January 1, not only pay more expensive good part of products that are no longer encumbered with a reduced 11% VAT but with 16% that affects the rest of the country. […]
http://www.mexidata.info / By Eve Pearce In Mexico, the power of the drug cartels is absolute. No level of society or the political establishment is untouched by them; but it is the poor, the powerless and those without a voice who suffer most. Over the past seven years, the US-supported offensive against organized crime has resulted […]
kens5.com reported that both law enforcement and locals expect bloodshed as new leadership assumes control of the Sinaloa cartel. “I guess there’s going to be a lot more heads that are going to roll,” said Reza, who walked back across the bridge to El Paso. Border residents fear a spike in violence after Mexican forces […]
bostonherald.com reported that the humiliating takedown of fugitive Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — busted shirtless in a seaside hotel room and marched before the media as he was whisked away to jail after more than a decade on the run — is a major moral victory but will do little to […]
qz.com reported that If all goes well, drillers responsible for a shale-oil bonanza in Texas will soon cross the southern US border and extend the hydraulic fracturing boom to Mexico. But first the Mexican government, foreign oil companies or some combination of the two will have to neutralize some of the most savage gangsters in […]
examiner.com reported that on Sunday, the FBI, along with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested Manuel Samano-Santoyo, 42, at his residence in Chicago. Samano-Santoyo and three other illegal aliens kidnapped a businessman in Paxton, Ill., in December, according to police. He is the last of the four suspects to be taken into custody, and […]
newschannel15.com reported that a Kentucky family is living a nightmare as they wait for any word about their loved one missing in Mexico. They are only holding on to hope that he’s alive. It has been 25 days since the family of James Stacy has heard anything about his whereabouts, and even then it was […]
ibtimes.com reported that since 2006, more than 26,000 people have gone missing, and recent reports suggest the crime is on the rise. But now the phenomenon has spread further, to encompass the canine pets of that same well-heeled demographic. Dognappings have been escalating since 2010. Protectores Independientes por la Defensa Animal (Independent Protectors for Animal […]
ECUAVISA.COM REPORTED….In the past three years has arrested nine Mexicans on various operating drug. At last, occurred on Monday, we stopped to get almost a ton of cocaine to Mexico. In the formulation of charges hearing, pre-trial detention against the four detainees was issued. 43 Sacks of jute with cocaine hydrochloride were the main evidence […]
theguardian.com reported that water in Mexico City comes out of the tap in a variety of colours (yellow, rusty or earthy tints), flavours (sulphuric, chlorinated or metallic) and textures (muddy or gritty). Water that doesn’t smell, taste or look funky, however, is actually more dangerous, for it can sucker people into believing that it’s drinkable. […]
A federal agent disguised in a gorilla suit and placed in a cage helped nab Mexican zoo officials who were attempting to smuggle primates to their homeland, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The Mexicans, including Victor Bernal, 57, the director of zoos and parks for the interior state of Mexico, were shown real gorillas, orangutans and […]
dw.de reported that Mexico’s president has unveiled plans to pacify a volatile drug cartel stronghold with billions of dollars in development money. Anti-cartel militias had formed in Michoacan in the absence of state security forces. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged on Tuesday to invest $3.4 billion (2.5 billion euros) to build roads, schools and […]
The Mexican mafia have now spread their killing tentacles across the world to the Philippines as local Manila Police claim that they are behind a murder plot to kill rival Canadian drug lords operating in an international drugs ring. Police in the Philippines say they have intelligence about a plot by a Mexican cartel to […]
bbc.co.uk reported that Mexican vigilante groups in western Michoacan state have agreed to join the official security forces after weeks of taking the law into their own hands. The “self-defence” groups have recently taken over a number of towns in their attempt to drive the Knights Templar drug cartel from the area. The government announced […]
bnamericas.com reported that Mexico and Ecuador are the only major countries in Latin America to have average internet connections speeds in line with or above the global average, according to the Q3 State of the Internet study released by internet content delivery network specialist Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM). In the third quarter of 2013, the global […]
latino.foxnews.com reported …. Earlier in the week the chief of the Iran-Mexico Parliamentary Friendship Group met with the head of the Mexican Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Gabriela Cuevas Barron, in Tehran to discuss the expansion of energy ties between the two nations and in other parts of Latin America. For its part, Mexico appears open […]
Mexican president Enrique Pena-Nieto has denied that his administration allowed self-defence groups grow under his watch, insisting that Mexican security forces remain in control of the drug-infested state of Michoacan. The Mexican president denied that vigilantes had “in no way” been allowed to take control of Michoacan during a layover in Canada ahead of his […]
independent.co.uk reported that health authorities in Mexico have confirmed a 17-year-old patient believed to have injected the drug krokodil was from Houston, America.Dr. Enrico Sotelo, the head of the council on addictions in the western state of Jalisco said the patient is a Houston resident who came to Mexico to visit the Pacific coast resort […]
vancouversun.com reported that police in the Philippines believe Vancouver gangster James Riach was working directly with a Mexican cartel when he set up a major drug operation in Manila last year. Rommell Vallejo, chief of the Anti-Organized and Transnational Crime Division of the National Bureau of Investigation, said Riach and three other Canadians have been […]
laht.com reported that more than 332,000 undocumented Mexican migrants, of whom nearly 16,900 were minors, were deported by the United States in a “safe, humane and orderly” fashion in 2013, the National Migration Institute (INM) said on Tuesday. Some 16,853 deportees, or 5% of the total, were minors, of whom “2,834 were met by a […]
news.yahoo.com reported: 1. Yeudi Estrada Carrero died january 1, 20114, after being arrested by Mexican police for disorderly conduct in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. 2. The attorney general of Quintana Roo stated that the American passed away while inside a police patrol truck while officers were restraining him. 3. The AG stated that Mr. Yeudi […]
Two men who worked as clowns named “Pistachon” and “Freski Star” in western Mexico have been arrested in connection with an alleged kidnapping, AFP reports according to authorities. The two suspects, 21 and 22 years old, were detained along with two associates on Tuesday as they tried to collect a second payment from the family […]
With high insolation and a supportive regulatory body, Mexico is the most attractive near-term solar market in Latin America. GTM Research provides a deep dive into the region in a new quarterly subscription service announced today: the Latin America PV Playbook. The Mexican solar market’s installed base will quadruple from 60 MW to 240 MW […]
oncars.in reported that Aston Martin has officially announced that it will be opening its first dealership in Mexico City. Starting next year, the British sports car maker’s all-new 4,500 sq ft showroom will house up to six car. Besides displaying the model lineup, the dealership will also cater for the servicing needs of Aston Martin […]
foxnews.com reported that Mexico’s human rights body said Tuesday that the government shouldn’t be allowing the formation of vigilante groups in areas where people are increasingly confronting drug gangs. Raul Plascencia, president of the National Human Rights Commission, said the growth of these groups are already undermining the rule of law but could also lead […]
presstv.ir reported that Mexican authorities have recovered a total of 64 bodies in mass graves, many of whom are said to have been tortured, in the western state of Jalisco. The bodies were found in 35 graves in the town of La Barca, authorities said Monday as they concluded an investigation into alleged victims of […]
presstv.ir reported that Mexico has decided to investigate the alleged formation of a rebel group calling for an armed revolt against the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto. The office of Mexico’s Attorney General said Monday that a probe is to be launched into the existence of the group, which calls itself the Revolutionary Armed […]
foxnews.com reported…Stolen radioactive material that was reported missing in Mexico early Wednesday has been recovered and there’s no risk to the surrounding population, a Mexico official said. The highly radioactive material was found in an empty lot about a half a mile from Hueypoxtla, an agricultural town of about 4,000 people, but it poses no […]
Huffington Post – AP -A Mexican official announced that a stolen container carrying radioactive material was found empty, the Associated Press reports on Wednesday evening. Read Article
Macon.com reported — A cargo truck hauling extremely dangerous radioactive material from used medical equipment was stolen from a gas station in Mexico, and authorities put out an alert in six central states and the capital to find it, Mexican officials said Wednesday. The truck was carrying a metal container of cobalt-60 headed to a […]