Author: Mark Stevenson
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Mexico’s most dangerous city for police refuses to give up or negotiate with cartels
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Welcome to what might be the most dangerous place to be a police officer in North America
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5 key issues at stake in the upcoming 2024 Mexican elections
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Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president
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Mexico’s presidential candidates promise security or continuity as campaigns officially begin
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Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City’s central square as the country’s leading presidential candidates officially kicked off their campaigns
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Game-time guacamole may get harder to make as climate reduces avocado shipments from Mexico
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Game-time guacamole may be getting harder to make
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The number of monarch butterflies at their Mexico wintering sites has plummeted this year
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Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began
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Apology letter found after U.S. citizens killed in Mexico
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico • A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement…
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Mexican president to U.S.: Fentanyl is your problem
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MEXICO CITY • Mexico’s president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction. His statement came…
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Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels
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Cheran, Mexico • Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the pine-covered mountains of western Mexico, where loggers clear entire hillsides for avocado plantations that drain local water supplies and draw drug cartels hungry for extortion money. In some places, like the Indigenous township of Cheran in Michoacan…
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Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies. The government commission for natural protected…
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Worldwide virus cases top 20 million
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WASHINGTON • It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half of them from just three countries: the U.S., India…