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Mexican boxer Chavez Jr. deported from US over alleged cartel ties
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Former champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been detained in Mexico after deportation by the United States to face shock charges of involvement with a drug cartel, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
Twenty bodies, some headless, found in Mexican cartel bastion
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» CULIACAN, Mexico - The bodies of 20 people, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said on Monday.
Mexico president defends world-first judicial vote despite low turnout
AFP, Published on 03/06/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back Monday at criticism of her country's unprecedented election of judges, after most voters skipped a ballot that her opponents called a farce.
Mexicans elect their judges under shadow of crime, corruption
AFP, Published on 02/06/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexicans chose their judges on Sunday in unprecedented elections that sharply divided opinion in a country plagued by rampant crime, corruption and impunity.
Mexico's Copper Canyon train lures intrepid travelers
AFP, Published on 28/07/2023
» CREEL (MEXICO) - From the heartland of a notorious drug cartel to rugged mountains home to remote Indigenous communities, Mexico's "El Chepe" train takes adventure-seeking travelers on a spectacular journey through the Copper Canyon.
'Unabomber,' whose attacks terrorized US, dies in prison
AFP, Published on 11/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, died in prison Saturday, US authorities said.
Investigation of top Mexican resort town wins reporting prize
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» MEXICO CITY - An investigation about the hidden side of the Caribbean resort town of Cancun on Wednesday won a prize honoring two journalists murdered in Mexico, one of the world's deadliest countries for the press.
Architect of Mexico's drug war convicted in US of trafficking
AFP, Published on 22/02/2023
» NEW YORK - A once-powerful Mexican government minister was convicted by a US jury Tuesday of aiding the very drug smuggling he was tasked with cracking down on.
Sean Penn Ukraine doc to premiere at Berlin film fest
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BERLIN - US actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at next month's Berlin film festival, organisers said when they unveiled the full programme on Monday.
Biden in Mexico for talks on migrants, drugs
AFP, Published on 09/01/2023
» MEXICO CITY: A regional migration and drug smuggling crisis is expected to dominate talks between US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday.