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Money Laundering – China, Mexico, Los Angeles
“Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico’s Sinaloa gang and China… uncovered a partnership between Sinaloa cartel associates and a Chinese criminal syndicate operating in Los Angeles and China to launder drug money”.
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At Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mayor is decapitated six days after he was sworn in
“In Mexico, the mayor of a major city was murdered six days after he was sworn in. The murder on Sunday underscores the security challenges facing the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Emily Green reports. And a warning – some will find the details in this report distressing.” “The killing presents a first big test…
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Is Mexico´s a Mafia State?
At the prestigious Carmen Aristegui´s radio show, two experts (Ricado Ravelo and José Luis Revelo) explain how tied are criminality and the government officials (governors, mayors, members of the cabinet) The organized crime was an apendix of government officials, but no longer. Now them both, organized crime and government, have become one. Is Mexico going…
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Who took payments from opioid manufacturers for not restricting the flow of pills?
“Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefic managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.”
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The one Mexican presidential candidate against prohibition
“Álvarez Máynez is the only candidate to propose moving from a prohibitionist model to one that regulates drug use. This would include legalizing drug consumption, while decriminalizing possession and taxing the commercialization of these substances.”
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Organized crime, the winner of last Mexican elections?
A columnist of Al Jazeera writes she thinks that, given more than two dozen candidates were assesinated before election day in Mexico, and that most of these assesinations are atributed to “crime outfits conducting their own forms of election”, “it is safe to assume that violence, official corruption, and impunity will remain the name of…
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AMLO denounces a ProPublica publication
“President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico. He denounced a ProPublica story as part of a media campaign against him by the DEA and the State Department to damage his political party ahead of the presidential election on June 2. Credit: Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images”
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Was AMLO first presidential campaign partially funded by druglords?
“Years before Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as Mexico’s leader in 2018, U.S. drug-enforcement agents uncovered what they believed was substantial evidence that major cocaine traffickers had funneled some $2 million to his first presidential campaign. According to more than a dozen interviews with U.S. and Mexican officials and government documents reviewed by ProPublica,…
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Treasurer of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, sex offender?, a case of sex trafficking?
“In a press conference, accompanied by his mother and Mayor Salvador Bastida”, Mr. Raudel Campos Murillo, “former treasurer of the municipality of Tacámbaro, denied having a criminal record in Mexico or having committed a major crime in the United States”, where he was imprissoned when found guilty of transporting Mexican women and children for prostitution.…
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