US envoy says Mexico not safe, blames ex-president for failed security
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said on Wednesday that the country is not safe and criticized the previous ...
Car bombs. Massacres. A cartel turf war. Mexico’s new president confronts a wave of violence
A string of gruesome killings has thrust Mexico's security crisis into the spotlight -- and poses challenges for new ...
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U.S. Ambassador To Mexico' Calls The Country's Security Policy a 'Failure, Blames It On AMLO's Lack Of Cooperation
"Coordination failed in the last year, in great part because the previous president did not want to receive help from the United States" said Ken Salazar ...
Mexican legislators reelect head of human rights agency who failed to address abuses
Legislators from Mexico’s ruling party have reelected the head of the National Human Rights Commission despite widespread ...
US ambassador says Mexico ‘closed the doors’ on security cooperation and denies its violence problem
U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has lashed out at Mexico's failure to accept aid in the fight against drug cartels, claiming the ...
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Mexican Troops Kill 19 Suspected of Being Cartel Members in Sinaloa Shootout
The killings in the northwestern state of Sinaloa raise questions on whether Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is taking a tougher approach to cartels. By Simon Romero and Emiliano ...
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The Violence In Sinaloa, Mexico Is Getting Worse
Since cartel boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was arrested in El Paso, Texas on July 25, 2024, Sinaloa, the state in Mexico where he lived, has experienced a new wave of violence. El Mayo claimed ...
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A violent start to the term of Mexico's new president raises questions about strategy, the army
It was Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López ... Asked about the October ...
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Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?
According to federal prosecutors, Genaro García Luna, once his country’s equivalent of J. Edgar Hoover, enabled El Chapo and others to operate with impunity.
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In the heartland of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have changed and violence rages
MEXICO CITY — Cellphone chats have ... trouble by allowing the drug lords to turn themselves in. President Claudia Sheinbaum “Sinaloa practically didn’t have homicides” before the two ...
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Mexico's Sinaloa state reports 14 murders in one day amid wave of violence
Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has deployed hundreds of military personnel with armored trucks and high-powered weapons to Sinaloa to try to contain the violence, but the clashes continue.