In Mexico's biggest and bloodiest campaign, dozens of candidates have dropped out, fearing for their lives. 'We are in a state of defenselessness. The criminal groups are getting away with it,' says Guillermo Valencia, PRI chief in Michoacán. For CNN:
cnn.com/2024/04/11/ame…

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“We need more from the Mexican Government”

'We've had…individual instances of successes, including significant cartel figures (arrested) & extraditions'

'But we need consistent, sustained, scalable assistance from them'

—FBI Director Chris Wray today

The investment term “fixed assets” usually applies to buildings and furniture, but by applying it to cats, López Obrador’s gov’t has obligated the country’s Treasury to give them food and care for them for the rest of their lives. ⁦Megan Janetsky⁩ apnews.com/article/501eb2…

Mexico City newspaper stand the morning after Ecuadorian police storm the Mexican embassy in Quito...

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Here's how they shot the opening scene of Spectre (2015)

Claudia Sheinbaum has filled Mexico City's main plaza - the zocalo - without too much effort, and there's still an hour and a half to go till she's scheduled to arrive and officially kick off her presidential campaign.

American officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.

w/ Alan Feuer

nytimes.com/2024/02/22/wor…

This was the week Nicolás Maduro stopped even pretending. The world should, too. The sad truth is that this regime is not on the verge of collapse, or voluntarily handing over power. That means tough decisions ahead for US & LatAm govts. My column:

americasquarterly.org/article/venezu…

Good summary of some of today’s execution-style murders across Mexico:

- 2 chicken vendors in Temixco
- businessman in Aguascalientes
- chief criminal detective in Cd. Obregón
- candidate to the state legislature in Misantla

Plus, the mayor of Taxco escapes from a murder hit.

BREAKING: Marvel has dropped Jonathan Majors, following today's verdict.

The #Venezuela govt says voters turned out in huge numbers on Sunday to endorse its claim on the #Essequibo region, which it disputes with neighbouring #Guyana . So what actually happened? A thread 🧵:
twitter.com/delcyrodriguez…

“I don’t know if they are miscalculating based on what happened in Crimea, but it would be a grave miscalculation:” Specter of armed conflict looms over Venezuelan vote on Guyana’s oil-rich land. For ⁦CNN⁩ cnn.com/2023/12/01/ame…

Mosab has been released and is back with his family

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights called for an 'independent international investigation' into Israel’s Al-Shifa hospital claims because of the 'different narratives,” he said yesterday.

David Shortell and Andrew Carey for CNN
That & more: justsecurity.org/90150/early-ed…

'The people that stayed behind are heroes.'

A powerful testimony from MSF Nurse Activity Manager Emily (Cali) Callahan, who exited Gaza last Wed. She spoke w/ Anderson Cooper on CNN yesterday about the strength of the Palestinian staff still in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s “tactical little pauses:” Gazans evacuate to the south in four hour windows, some waving white flags and bringing no more than a water bottle. With Abeer Salman Mohammad Eyad Kourdi Lauren Kent CNN cnn.com/2023/11/07/mid…

Climb aboard Brazil’s Hurricane Truck of Happiness.

ICYMI: After sitting in museums & private collections across the United States for nearly 60 years, we returned a rare Olmec Cave Mask to the people of Mexico, & it is finally reunited with the rest of its companion monuments. Read more by David Shortell: nytimes.com/2023/10/23/sci…

Stone by ancient stone, Mexico has been recovering its lost treasures, thanks to an ambitious series of investigations and restitution efforts aimed at correcting decades of theft and colonial plundering nyti.ms/3Q6m7Ur