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...Mexico recently extradited Ovidio Guzmán, the son of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the US....
...Paintings are like patients, Enrique Quintana, the head of restoration, explained to me: they need check-ups every few years, and must be X-rayed and inspected to determine their state of health....
...After greeting Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen with military honours, Guatemala’s president Alejandro Giammattei praised the “historic bond of brotherhood and democratic values” between the countries....
...Building on evidence that led to the conviction of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in 2019, US prosecutors have characterised García Luna, who was arrested in Dallas in 2019, as a...
...“He was a regional player (who) would never have been seen as a top priority for Mexican law enforcement if the DEA wasn’t so obsessed with Caro Quintero,” said Alejandro Hope, a Mexican security analyst...
...“Colombians are hungry, perhaps even desperate, for a change that has long been promised to them but that hasn’t come,” Guzmán says....
...Alejandro Mayorkas, US homeland security chief, also attended the meeting....
...More than 20 leading figures, including the oil billionaire Alejandro Bulgheroni and the soy king Gustavo Grobocopatel, are living across the River Plate in neighbouring Uruguay, where the economy is more...
...Unam’s rector, Enrique Graue called the charges against the academics “an absurdity”....
...López Obrador released the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, met and shook the hand of Guzmán’s mother, and publicly apologised for using the drug lord’s nickname....
...Despite allegations of widespread corruption under the 2012-18 government of then-president Enrique Peña Nieto, in which Mr Cienfuegos served, his arrest last month strained relations and incensed the Mexican...
...That happened a few months after Mr López Obrador ordered the release of Ovidio Guzmán, one of Mr Guzmán’s sons, whose bungled arrest for extradition to the US triggered a fierce firefight....
...The subsequent administration of Enrique Peña Nieto continued the trend. By 2018, the last year of that administration, 54,000 soldiers were deployed throughout Mexico....
...While finance minister Martin Guzmán is expected to present rosy predictions in Tuesday’s budget, Chilean retail giant Falabella became the latest in a string of companies to announce its intention to withdraw...
...He testified that it sold feedstock to a petrochemical plant at a big loss in another illegal scheme involving bribery, attorney-general Alejandro Gertz Manero said....
...General Salvador Cienfuegos, 72, served under the 2012-18 administration of former president Enrique Peña Nieto, which is already being investigated for alleged corruption....
...Sinaloa is notorious as the home of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, once Mexico’s most powerful drug baron, now locked up in a maximum-security jail in the US....
...López Obrador intended his more peaceful approach to contrast with President Felipe Calderón’s doomed 2006-12 “war on drugs”, which sent violence skyrocketing, and the record of his immediate predecessor Enrique...
...“This is going to hold Colombia back for quite some time,” said Sergio Guzmán, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a consultancy....
...Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico’s attorney-general, said Emilio Lozoya had “offered his collaboration to establish and clarify the matters of which he has been accused”....
...Alejandro Werner, the director of the IMF’s western hemisphere department, warned on Thursday of another “lost decade” for Latin America as a result of the economic toll of the coronavirus crisis....
...“It’s really bad timing,” said Alejandro Cuadrado, a Latin America strategist at BBVA, arguing that the market turmoil could provide officials with an excuse to stretch out an “ambitious” timetable....
...“There is consensus that an eventual default would have negative consequences for the country,” said Alejandro Catterberg, a director at Poliarquia, a local pollster....
...(FT) Mexico’s president says predecessors should testify in graft case Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on his two predecessors — Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón — to testify about alleged...
...The message to Mexican cartels was “you can blackmail the Mexican state at will”, said Alejandro Hope, a security consultant. “This has been a terrible week for Amlo on the security front....
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