Hints and tips:
...Soon after Mexico’s president took office in 2018, agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration knew their job was about to become a lot more difficult....
...This week, US authorities were forced to shut down rail bridges into the Texas cities of El Paso and Eagle Pass, some of the busiest crossings between the two countries....
...Earlier, videos shared on social media showed an armoured motorcade transporting him from a holding facility in Quito....
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...“Lamentably that peace has been shattered and there is a lot of responsibility that goes around various administrations.”...
...Mexico recently extradited Ovidio Guzmán, the son of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the US....
...While the plans for the prison assume serious overcrowding, Bukele’s administration will provide minimal supervision to maintain order....
...The strain is spreading to an array of social services....
...“I started selling these things in 1977, when people aspired to understand social history through ceramics,” he says. But tastes and lifestyles moved on....
...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...
...In El Paso dozens of migrants were sleeping on the streets outside a church on Wednesday....
...Like her patron, González is conservative on social issues such as abortion despite her leftist economic positions....
...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 said criticism of Mexico by the DEA came just after his country lost 10 military personnel capturing Ovidio Guzmán, son of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán....
...Lockdowns are over but many people are still working from home in what some economists have called “Long Social Distancing”....
...The activist is serving five years in prison after being convicted in December of “spreading false news that undermines national security” for a social media post....
...released its national security strategy, which made clear that China was its top security priority over Russia, despite the latter’s “immediate and ongoing” threat....
...DEA administrator Anne Milgram said in a note to staff shared on social media: “Our incredible DEA team in Mexico worked in partnership with Mexican authorities to capture and arrest Rafael Caro Quintero...
...Trump disclosed the raid in a statement posted on social media in which he said that a “large group” of FBI agents were at the Mar-a-Lago club, his residence in Florida....
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...On Tuesday, Ramón Sabillón, Honduras’s security minister, said Hernández was facing charges of drug trafficking among others....
...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...
...Business cannot brush off ESG as a mere PR challenge ESG — environmental, social and governance — is everywhere, notes Stefan Stern....
...The two sides outlined a broader framework for security co-operation including work on substance abuse, social programmes and port controls to block passage of chemicals used to make synthetic drugs....
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