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...Michoacán is Mexico’s top iron ore-producing state, served by the Lázaro Cárdenas port on the Pacific, and there are an estimated 900 mines in the area....
...Two of the Alliance’s biggest ports – Colombia’s Buenaventura, and Mexico’s Lazaro Cardenas – are also under varying states of emergency due to security problems....
...Mr Peña Nieto has appointed a troubleshooter, Alfredo Castillo, as the state’s man in Michoacán; security officials have been changed; and Mr Castillo has promised “radical” change soon in the area known...
...“We are talking about an organisation with a model of operation that is sui generis, different to that of organisations dedicated to drugs trafficking,” says Alfredo Castillo, named by Enrique Peña Nieto...
...June 2012: The navy claims the arrest of Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar....
...“Colombia’s development . . . hinges on the growth of the middle class,” says Mauricio Cárdenas, finance minister....
...Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas signed an order expropriating the assets of nearly all the foreign oil companies operating in Mexico – claiming they were rebelling against him – and later creating Petroleos...
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