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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico is the "champion" of production of synthetic drugs including fentanyl, the head of the country's criminal investigation agency acknowledged Tuesday, at international talks aimed at fighting the problem. The blunt admission came as visiting US officials called for a "more agile" joint approach to combating drug trafficking by powerful Mexican cartels. "Mexico has been the champion of the production of methamphetamine, and now fentanyl," Felipe de Jesus Gallo said. That had been "the source of the greatest wealth and power" for Mexican criminal organizations, he added....
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Palominas (United States) (AFP) - John Ladd, who says he could ride a horse before he could walk, is a fourth-generation rancher from a family that arrived in Arizona when the border between Mexico and the United States was just a line on the map. Now he views that frontier -- and the thousands of people who spill across it every day -- as a threat to his whole way of life. "It rules how we run the ranch now, and that isn't the most effective way," he told AFP. Ladd's sprawling cattle farm runs right up against the wall that -- at least in this stretch -- separates Mexico from the United State...
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Eagle Pass (United States) (AFP) - Joe Biden and Donald Trump traded blame for America's immigration crisis as they made dueling visits to the US-Mexican border Thursday, putting the hot-button issue at the heart of their race for the White House in November. In near-simultaneous speeches in Texas, Republican former president Trump called the record numbers of border crossings a "Joe Biden invasion" -- while the Democratic incumbent urged his rival to stop "playing politics" with proposed migration reforms. The split-screen moment highlighted what could be a make-or-break issue in the presiden...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will both visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday in a high-profile clash of schedules as they vie to win over voters on immigration -- one of the hottest issues in the 2024 election. With record numbers of migrants crossing into the United States, Biden has sought to defuse a major threat to his reelection campaign by blaming Congress for failing to back his reforms. For Trump, a hard anti-immigration stance has been central to his political identity for years, and he has repeatedly vowed to crack down on crossings from Mexico as he seeks...
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Mexico City (AFP) - It wasn't his first choice, but Mexico is now home for Evens Luxama -- along with thousands of other Haitians forced to put their hopes of migrating to the United States on hold. The 34-year-old is one of a growing number of people from the crisis-torn Caribbean nation pursuing what activists have described as the "Mexican dream," building a life in a land that migrants traditionally hurried through. "I wanted to go to the United States, but I don't think there's another country that offers the opportunity that Mexico does right now," said Luxama, who hopes his partner and ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico's transparency and data protection office announced Thursday a probe of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's disclosure of a journalist's telephone number at his daily press briefing. Lopez Obrador revealed the number of The New York Times reporter while reading out questions from the newspaper related to a report it was about to publish about alleged drug cartel links to his allies. The National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection said that it would investigate whether the disclosure broke the law. The controversy comes ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Population numbers of endangered monarch butterflies have fallen sharply at their wintering sites in Mexico, experts said Wednesday, blaming the "sobering" drop primarily on climate change and the use of pesticides. The orange, black and white-spotted insects covered 0.90 hectares (2.2 acres) of forest in the 2023-2024 season, Gloria Tavera, conservation director at the National Commission for Natural Protected Areas, said. That marked a decline of 59 percent from the previous year, she told a news conference. "Much has to do with climate change -- drought and high temperat...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States and Mexico vowed on Friday to "work together" to resolve the migration crisis, resuming urgent high-level talks against a backdrop of election-year pressure for the Biden administration to take tougher measures. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was hosting Mexican counterpart Alicia Barcena just three weeks after he made his own visit to Mexico, said the two sides had made "great progress" in the short time since then. Blinken told reporters the work of "reducing the unprecedented irregular migration surge" should get a boost from the recent inaugu...
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Washington (AFP) - The Biden administration on Sunday denounced what it said was "dangerous" obstruction by Texas authorities, after three migrants drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico in disputed circumstances. "On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked US Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance," said a statement from White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez. It continued: "While we continue to gather facts about the circumstances of these tragic deaths, one thing is clear: Governor ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that his government would step up efforts to contain irregular migration flows, ahead of a high-level US visit next week. The pledge came a day after Lopez Obrador spoke with US President Joe Biden by telephone about the hot-button issue. Lopez Obrador said the "extraordinary" migration situation would be the focus of talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior US officials in Mexico City on Wednesday. He said that Mexico would boost containment measures in the south near the Guatemalan border. "The...
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