Mexico nabs over a ton of fentanyl in largest ever seizure
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexican security forces said on Wednesday they had made the largest fentanyl seizure in the country’s history, impounding 1,100 kilograms of the synthetic opioid in the state of Sinaloa. In a statement, law enforcement said the seizure was the equivalent of 20 million fentanyl doses and would cause an economic hit […]
Mexico detains more than 5,200 migrants in single day
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities detained more than 5,200 migrants across the country on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday, in a major sweep as the nation is under pressure from the incoming US Government to crack down on arrivals at the US-Mexico border. A drone view shows migrants in a caravan bound to the northern […]
Mexico authorities find 11 bodies in violent Guerrero state, investigating as homicides
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Authorities in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most violent states, said Thursday they found the remains of 11 people in the capital Chilpancingo, marking what appears to be another grisly homicide weeks after the city’s mayor was murdered and decapitated. The bodies were nine men and two women, with two minors among […]
Mexico Supreme Court keeps intact most of ruling party’s judicial reform
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexico’s controversial judicial reform requiring direct election of judges and magistrates emerged mostly unscathed on Tuesday from a Supreme Court vote on whether it violated the country’s constitution. The failed attempt to roll back some of the reform’s key elements was a victory for recently inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum, and also […]
Mexico President Sheinbaum chides top court ahead of judicial reform decision
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticised the country’s Supreme Court on Monday for overstepping its authority as it weighs whether to deem part of a recently-enacted judicial reform unconstitutional. The court is expected to vote on Tuesday on a proposal that seeks to invalidate core parts of the judicial reform, which has […]
Catholic bishops call for authorities to step up against violence in southern Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico AP Four Roman Catholic bishops in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero called Monday for civilian and military authorities to take steps to protect residents of a region rocked by violence that has left more than a dozen dead in recent days. The violence around Tecpan de Galeana, about 104 kilometres up […]
Mexico’s Sinaloa state reports 14 murders in one day amid wave of violence
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Authorities in Mexico’s Sinaloa state said on Sunday that at least 14 people were killed the day before amid a wave of violence that erupted after drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada’s arrest in the United States. Most of the killings on Saturday were in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, […]
Mexico military’s role in migrant massacre comes under sharp scrutiny
Huixtla, Mexico Reuters A wooden fence, warped and battered by a crashing vehicle, is the only sign on this quiet dirt road of the six migrants killed by Mexican soldiers who opened fire on a pick-up truck here earlier this month. While the military has said soldiers fired on a convoy they mistook for organised […]
Hailing the end of graft in Mexico, lawmakers advance judicial overhaul
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Lawmakers in Mexico’s lower house of Congress voted overwhelmingly on Monday in favour of legislation that will implement a controversial judicial overhaul moving the country to a system of elected judges over the next three years. The so-called secondary legislation passed the Chamber of Deputies on a vote of 336 lawmakers […]
Columbus holiday in Latin America revives centuries-old historical debate
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters An Argentine claim that European contact brought civilisation to the Americas has provoked rebukes from across Latin America, where heated debates often flare up over the era’s contested historical legacy. Commemorating Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas on 12th October, 1492, the office of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei posted on […]