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Mexico defense chief says legalizing opium ‘way out’ of violence

Mexico’s defense minister said on Friday legalizing opium for medicinal use could contain violence caused by drug gangs fighting over poppy fields and trafficking routes...
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Mexican police find couple accused of killing 10 women

Police said Friday they have detained a couple on the outskirts of Mexico City on suspicion they may have killed as many as 10 women...
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Scooter company Bird enters Latin America with launch in Mexico City

California startup Bird said on Friday it has launched its electric scooters in Mexico City, expanding its effort to shake up urban transportation globally. The...
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Mexico President-elect AMLO lost 2006 elections due to 'rigging'

Mexico President-elect AMLO lost 2006 elections due to ‘rigging’

A former presidential candidate from Mexico's Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), which ruled uninterrupted for seven decades, has hinted that the 2006 presidential elections might have...
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US moves ahead with plan to give Mexico $20M that it doesn't want to deport migrants

US wants to force Mexico to take $20M that it doesn’t want

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to pay Mexico $20 million to deport migrants from that country and prevent them from reaching...
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Mexico’s President and First-Lady file for divorce, report

President Enrique Peña Nieto and first lady, Angélica Rivera, began divorce proceedings to end their marriage, according to Salvador García Soto in his column today...
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aztec animals

Almost all animals once worshipped by Aztecs are now endangered

Almost all animals that were worshipped by the ancient Aztecs are now under some kind of threat in Mexico, according to biologist Carlos Galindo, director...
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Mexico’s Lucrative Oil Theft Industry Fueling Increased Criminal Violence

Oil theft is becoming one of Mexico's most lucrative criminal businesses Violent battles between rival criminal groups vying for control over Mexico’s lucrative oil theft...
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Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops

Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops

In early June, evolutionary developmental biologist Elena Álvarez-Buylla received an out-of-the-blue phone call from the campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then the front-runner in...
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2017 earthquake off Mexico broke through an entire tectonic plate

2017 earthquake off Mexico broke through an entire tectonic plate

September 2017 saw a pair of weird earthquakes in Mexico. A magnitude 8.2 on September 8 just offshore the state of Chiapas was followed by...
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Mexico: Over 9,000 Children Disappeared Amid Violent Security Policy

Since 1995 over 9,000 children in Mexico have disappeared

Since 1995 over 9,000 children in Mexico have disappeared, the country’s ombudsman Luis Raul Gonzalez announced Wednesday during the 3rd National Conference on the Rights...
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Warning for more ash fallout from volcano in Mexico

Around 7:30 am the colossus recorded an explosion, with a fumarole more than a kilometer high and with a high content of ash, informed the...
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