A woman linked to drug cartels and accused of torturing and murdering her daughter in Arizona in 1997 has been captured in Mexico nearly 30 years after the crime, officials said Wednesday. Anna Marlene Somoza was connected to a “major transnational drug trafficking network” along the Arizona border through the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. […]
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Mexico arrests cartel members linked to murders of 10 workers from Canadian mining company
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Mexican authorities said on Sunday that they had arrested five men linked to the kidnapping and murder of 10 workers from a Canadian mining company in the country’s northwest. The workers, all Mexicans, were kidnapped at gunpoint on January 23 from a silver mining project belonging to Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver in the violence-plagued state of […]
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The death toll from Hurricane Simon and the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel rose to six Tuesday after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast, authorities said. Hurricane Simon continued moving slowly off Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 1 storm, bringing heavy rain to Nayarit and Sinaloa states, where authorities remained […]
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Hurricane Simon continued to move slowly up the coast of west-central Mexico early Tuesday bringing wind and flooding rain after tropical weather systems caused five deaths and damage in Pacific coastal towns and resorts. The eye of the hurricane remained offshore as its outer bands of winds and rain slammed communities between the Sierra Madre […]
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3 men found guilty of killing American and Australian brothers on surfing trip in Mexico
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A local judge on Friday found three men guilty of the murders of two Australian brothers and their American friend in April 2024 in the Mexican state of Baja California. The trial for the triple homicide that shocked Mexico and drew international attention concluded Friday after Judge Raúl Hernández in the coastal city of Ensenada […]
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Mexico boss speaks out on future of Arsenal and Liverpool linked Gilberto Mora | Football
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Gilberto Mora has attracted a lot of attention as a teenager (Picture: Getty Images) Mexico boss Rafael Marquez believes Gilberto Mora is good enough to play for any team, ahead of an expected move to a European giant. The 17-year-old sensation has already won 13 caps for Mexico and became the second-youngest player to start […]
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Alleged Jalisco cartel leader and fuel smuggler dubbed “The Tank” is arrested in Mexico
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Security forces in Mexico have arrested an alleged leader of a notorious cartel who is accused by the U.S. of drug trafficking and a large-scale fuel smuggling operation, authorities said Tuesday. Ivan Cazarin Molina (a.k.a. “El Tanque”—meaning “The Tank”), was captured on Monday in the town of Zapopan in Jalisco state, security minister Omar Garcia […]
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Search for dozens of missing college students in Mexico leads to human remains, 17 new suspects
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Twelve years after the disappearance of dozens of Mexican students from a rural university, allegedly at the hands of drug traffickers and police, authorities said Monday they had identified 17 new suspects. Thousands of people attended an annual march on Saturday in Mexico City to demand justice for 43 young men who were studying to […]
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Hurricane Polo grows into Category 5 storm off Mexico, could produce life-threatening flooding
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Hurricane Polo rapidly intensified off the coast of southwestern Mexico on Tuesday, growing into a powerful Category 5 storm that could bring life-threatening flooding to parts of the states of Guerrero and Michoacán, the National Hurricane Center said. The hurricane center called Polo “extremely dangerous” Tuesday morning, as its maximum sustained winds climbed to 165 […]
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Three men accused of killing two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot went on trial Monday, two years after their killings in a suspected robbery. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, respectively, and their 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Pacific […]