Leaders of US, Canada, Mexico show unity despite friction
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North American Leaders Summit.
Mexican capo's arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change
Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed.
Former Justice Department prosecutor weighs in on Jan. 6 investigation, Hunter Biden
Former Justice Department prosecutor James Trusty joined Catherine Herridge to discuss the Jan. 6 investigation into former President Donald Trump. Trusty has been retained by Trump in a defamation suit against CNN.
news.yahoo.comWhy AMLO Is Asking Mexico’s Voters If He Should Quit
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.
washingtonpost.comWhy AMLO Is Asking Mexico’s Voters If He Should Quit
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s white-haired, folksy president, is telling voters to go to the polls April 10 and decide whether he should resign instead of serving until 2024, when his single six-year term will end. The populist leader has a history of using referendums as a tool to energize his working class base, but this will be the first time he’s turned the question on himself.
washingtonpost.comCockfight shooting in Mexico leaves at least 19 dead
At least 19 people were killed in a shooting Sunday night in Mexico’s Michoacan state, the latest in a string of mass killings as cartels war over territory in various parts of the country. The state prosecutor’s office said it found 16 men and three women dead at a clandestine cockfight in the town of Las Tinajas and is investigating the shooting. At the beginning of March, the government confirmed another shooting in Michoacan that left as many as 17 people dead. The states of Michoacan and Guanajuato have been under fire lately as the heavily armed New Generation Jalisco Cartel seeks to expand territory. Several people were injured in the latest shooting and were sent to local hospitals.
mlive.comMcConnell plots GOP midterm strategy as Trump's influence stokes divisions
Republican infighting is threatening to topple the party's strategy to regain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-burns joined Vladimir Duthiers and Lana Zak with more.
news.yahoo.comU.S. prepares for possible Russian attack on Ukraine "with little or no warning"
Department of Defense press secretary John Kirby says Russian president Vladimir Putin could order an attack on Ukraine "with little or no warning." As the U.S. prepares for potential conflict, the White House says diplomacy is still on the table. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joined CBS News' "Red and Blue" with the latest.
news.yahoo.comFootage purportedly shows Mexican cartel dropping bombs on rivals with a drone
New footage purportedly shows a major Mexican cartel dropping bombs on rival camps with a drone — marking the latest instance of instability and violence in the region from a cartel that officials say has been growing rapidly.
news.yahoo.comMexican president plans to ask Harris for southern border to reopen 'completely'
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a planned phone call on Monday with Vice President Kamala Harris he would urge the United States to reopen the two countries' shared southern border "completely."
news.yahoo.comHarris in Mexico after 'a good visit' to Guatemala
Vice President Kamala Harris closes out her first foreign trip Tuesday in Mexico. She'll meet with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb migration at the U.S. border. (June 8)
news.yahoo.comHarris turns focus to Mexico on trip to address migration
Vice President Kamala Harris is closing out her first foreign trip Tuesday with a visit to Mexico and a meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the spike in migration at the U.S. border. While Lopez Obrador committed in a previous virtual meeting with Harris that the U.S. can “count on us” to help address the issue of irregular migration, the Mexican president has in the past blamed President Joe Biden for the increase in migration at the border.
news.yahoo.comLatin American economy rebounding faster than expected. Some nations will commit political suicide, anyway | Opinion
The good news about Latin America is that the region’s economy will rebound much faster than expected, mainly because of a sharp rise in U.S. and Chinese imports. The bad news is that the region’s politics will most likely ruin the recovery.
news.yahoo.comMexico to reopen auto factories, helping US carmakers struggling to recover from coronavirus shutdowns
Some Mexican auto factories are due to open as soon as Monday, in line with large U.S. assembly plants for the Detroit automakers. Despite President Donald Trump's "America First" policies, the U.S. auto industry heavily relies on Mexico for parts and vehicle production. Mexico, unlike many U.S. states, had not given direction on when auto manufacturing would be allowed to restart as the county's coronavirus cases have continued to rise. It's something auto industry executives have been closely watching as they reopen American factories. Prior to the reopening report, Fred Hubacker, a managing partner of consulting firm Conway MacKenzie, called Mexico a "wild card" in the restart of the U.S. auto industry.
cnbc.comCuba calls attack on Washington embassy terrorism; police say gunman heard voices
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubas President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday called a gun assault last week on its embassy in Washington a terrorist attack, while U.S. court papers said the suspected gunman was a psychotic Cuban emigre who heard voices. FILE PHOTO - Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends an official welcoming ceremony held by Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Luis CortesThere were no injuries in the attack last Thursday, but gunshots riddled the facade and some penetrated the building. Police arrested Alexander Alazo, 42, at around 2 a.m. after he fired an AK-47-style semi-automatic rifle 32 times at the embassy, according a memorandum filed on Sunday in support of pretrial detention. USA, Land and Family, according to court papers.
feeds.reuters.comThe U.S. is pushing Mexico to reopen factories even as workers die of COVID-19
Even as COVID-19 deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: Its time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work. AdvertisementMexican officials have begun to cave, despite warnings from health authorities here that reopening factories too soon could lead to widespread death. And authorities in the border state of Baja California have lifted closure orders on at least 12 factories. Avila said 390 businesses that her group represents have asked Mexican officials to deem the work of their suppliers in Mexico essential. AdvertisementAn April 18 letter from the company to employees confirmed three suspected COVID-19 deaths at the Juarez factory.
latimes.comMexico president says U.N. slow in ensuring access to medical gear amid coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Henry RomeroMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that the United Nations has been slow in ensuring fair prices and equal access to medical equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. With cases of coronavirus rising rapidly in the country, Mexico has sought to supplement its limited supply of ventilators by purchasing equipment from China.
feeds.reuters.comTrump says US will 'help Mexico along' with its OPEC+ production cuts
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States would "help Mexico along" with oil production cuts that it is meant to make under a global deal to shore up slumping crude oil prices, but said the details had yet to be worked out. The comments suggest that Trump could be considering an unprecedented effort to orchestrate a production cut in the United States, historically the world's most vocal proponent of the free market. The group of oil producers known as OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, had hammered out the framework of a record oil cut on Thursday to lift oil prices slammed by the coronavirus crisis. President Lopez Obrador said earlier on Friday that Trump had agreed help out by cutting additional U.S. output after Mexico offered OPEC+ a cut of just 100,000 bpd, a quarter of what the group demanded. He said Trump "very generously said to me that they were going to help us with the additional 250,000 (bpd) to what they are going to contribute."
cnbc.comIn Mexico, seething anger over violence against women spills into the streets
Seething anger over a rise in deadly violence against women in Mexico spilled into the streets of the nations capital on Sunday as tens of thousands of female demonstrators marched to demand that the government do more to protect them. Some of the countrys largest companies have endorsed the action Monday, giving women the day off. Theyre killing women in plain sight.Teresa Morales, 44, walked arm in arm with her two daughters. They do not represent me.Riot police filled the streets, but for the most part did not stop the women. Its not women killing women, its men killing women, and they are emboldened by Mexicos culture of impunity, said Mara de la Luz Estrada, an activist with a group that tracks femicides.
latimes.comChildren as young as 6 are taking up arms in Mexico
In a lawless stretch of western Mexico, children as young as 6 are taking up arms against organized crime. This week, 19 children were conscripted into a vigilante group that for years has been battling drug gangs in restive Guerrero state. If they are afraid, the criminals will kill them like little chickens.AdvertisementTwo of the children who were trained were 6, Sanchez said. Human rights officials across the country condemned the enlistment of young vigilante soldiers. They say were violating the childrens rights, Sanchez said.
latimes.comChildren go missing as Central American migrants clash with Mexican forces
SUCHIATE RIVER, Guatemala/Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican security forces fired tear gas at rock-hurling Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico earlier on Monday, in a chaotic scramble that saw mothers separated from their young children. The mostly Honduran migrants numbered around 500, according to Mexicos National Migration Institute (INM). Five National Guard police were injured in the clashes, the INM said. The Reuters witness said that several kilometers from the border, Mexican immigration authorities had filled a bus and pickup trucks with detained migrants. Mexican authorities had already received nearly 1,100 migrants in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, the ministry said on Sunday.
feeds.reuters.comRelatives of massacre victims torn over future in Mexico as most flee
They built ranch-style homes with orchards where the young children of growing families could ride their bikes and play all day outside. Other family members describe how kids suffer from recurring nightmares, and those relatives who have left fear coming back. Officials have suggested the attack may have been linked to a turf battle between two rival cartels known to fight over lucrative smuggling routes between Sonora and Chihuahua states, which both border the United States. Others have been provided with armed escorts from Mexican security forces. Bad things happen in every corner of the world, including in the United States.
feeds.reuters.comTrump administration downplays Mexican concerns about key piece of USMCA trade deal
The Trump administration on Monday downplayed a Mexican concern about a key piece of the North American trade deal the House aims to approve this week. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said language in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which the three countries signed last week, does not call for American "labor inspectors" in Mexico. "These personnel will not be 'labor inspectors' and will abide by all relevant Mexican laws," the agency continued. The White House aims to ease concerns during a pivotal period for the trade agreement one of President Donald Trump's top economic and political priorities. The administration won support for USMCA from skeptical House Democratic leaders after including tougher labor enforcement tools in the deal, among other provisions.
cnbc.comReadout of U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr's Visit to Mexico
Earlier today, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr traveled to Mexico. Attorney General Barr also accompanied Ambassador Landau in a visit to Mexicos National Shrine, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Attorney General Barr and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Admiral Jose Rafael Ojeda Duran, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo Montao, Attorney General Barr and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard CasaubonThe U.S. law enforcement relationship with Mexico is one of our most important partnerships to combat trans-border crime. Attorney General Barr looks forward to further dialogue on these important matters.
justice.govMexico President Lopez Obrador tweets that U.S. Atty. Gen. Barr gets non-intervention in foreign policy
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said visiting U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr understood the importance of nonintervention in foreign policy, but there was no public indication that the two nations had resolved deep differences about the Trump administrations plans to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Those killings and others have emphasized Mexicos soaring homicide rate, much of it linked to organized crime, which controls the lucrative trafficking of drugs to the United States. If designated, Mexican drug gangs would join dozens of other international organizations on similar blacklists, including Islamist, separatist and other factions with more overtly political goals than Mexican drug syndicates which, while extremely violent, operate on a for-profit principle. The United States is also the source of much of the weaponry used by Mexican drug gangs.
latimes.comMexico to urge Pelosi to move ahead with trade deal approval
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to the media during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on November 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi spoke about her legislative plans through the new year and the lack of progress she feels the Senate is making on passing legislation the House has already passed. She then took questions. Mexico's government will this week send a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging Congress to approve a new trade deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Speaking at a regular government news conference alongside various ministers, Lopez Obrador said he was sure that Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers would help Mexico, and that he believed the U.S. Congress would approve the deal before the end of 2019.
cnbc.comBolivian interim leader says Evo Morales cant run in new vote and asks Mexico to muzzle him
Bolivias interim government wants Mexico to muzzle Evo Morales, outspoken ex-president of the Andean nation. But he has not left quietly, assailing as illegitimate the government of self-appointed interim Bolivian President Jeanine Aez, who called Morales broadsides from Mexico inflammatory. Evo Morales, from his exile, is breaking all protocols because he should not be making public declarations, Aez told reporters in La Paz, the Bolivian capital. In Bolivia, Morales supporters have been staging daily demonstrations. Hopefully it is recognized how he [Morales] ... lifted Bolivia from being a country with much poverty, Lopez Obrador told reporters Wednesday.
latimes.comAs Morales arrives in Mexico, Bolivian opposition senator declares herself interim president
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived Tuesday in Mexico, where authorities have granted him political asylum, as an opposition senator back in Bolivia declared herself interim president. But the United States, which has long opposed Morales for his socialist policies, appeared to recognize Aez as interim president. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales waves upon landing in Mexico City on Tuesday. Among those accompanying Morales to Mexico was the former vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, a longtime confidant. Before Morales arrived here, the Mexican foreign secretary dismissed suggestions that Mexicos decision to grant asylum to Morales a longtime critic of U.S. imperialism would elevate tensions with the United States.
latimes.comTrump offers Mexican president U.S. help in finding killers of Americans
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Keep America Great Rally at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S., November 4, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri GripasWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, in a phone call on Tuesday with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, offered U.S. assistance to help Mexico bring to justice those who killed nine Americans, the White House said in a statement. President Trump made clear that the United States condemns these senseless acts of violence that took the lives of nine American citizens and offered Mexico assistance to ensure the perpetrators face justice, the statement said.
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