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...López Obrador’s gentler security policy aimed to cut murder rates that had spiked after unsuccessful attempts to confront the cartels....
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...
...Earlier, videos shared on social media showed an armoured motorcade transporting him from a holding facility in Quito....
...The Biden administration says it wants to encourage investment in countries of origin, expand legal migration options and improve regional enforcement....
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...Security experts say the groups have expanded their power during López Obrador’s presidency....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...López Obrador’s tirade came shortly before President Joe Biden’s top homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met him last Thursday in a visit to Mexico planned before the kidnappings....
...The Big Read The influence of Mexico’s military has grown dramatically under populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...Anduril’s first big win, when it was just a few months old, was a contract with the Trump administration to supply AI-powered surveillance towers along the Mexican border....
...García Luna, who went on to become Mexico’s public security minister and was the face of the country’s war on drugs during the Felipe Calderón administration, was found guilty of five counts, including cocaine...
...And there’s just been a trial of the person who was the head of Mexico’s security forces back in the Calderón administration in 2006....
...Increased social payments and pensions go down well. It is also true that López Obrador has avoided overt authoritarianism....
...García Luna’s trial comes as the administrations of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his counterpart Joe Biden have been trying to repair damage done to security co-operation by US authorities...
...He blamed Congress for failing to fix “a broken immigration system” and not giving the administration the resources it needs to respond....
...Biden administration officials have considered invoking the 14th amendment of the US Constitution to allow the government to continue issuing new debt to pay social security recipients, bondholders, government...
...Lockdowns are over but many people are still working from home in what some economists have called “Long Social Distancing”....
...This is despite President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s claims that his administration is pursuing a “hugs, not bullets” strategy, which remains poorly defined....
...The third thing that I think has played a role here is the rise of social media because, after all, when did social media really get going? It was around 2006, 2007. The Facebook revolution....
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...“There’s no question in my mind the Biden administration is trying to be as quiet and as diplomatic as they possibly can with López Obrador,” said Starr from the University of Southern California....
...China’s 380mn itinerant migrant workers are “periphery”, she says, which means they are the first to be laid off when companies are hit by downturns, a problem exacerbated by unequal access to social security...
...“No one has explained what the security strategy is in the country,” said Ernesto López Portillo, head of the citizen security programme at the Ibero-American University....
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...When he took power, arriving at his inauguration in a simple white Volkswagen and promising a no-frills administration, Mexicans knew that López Obrador, sometimes known by his initials Amlo, would be a...
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