The arrest of a defeated candidate for the New Mexico legislature on charges that he orchestrated a plot to shoot up the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque prompted widespread condemnation Tuesday as well as accusations that the stolen-election rhetoric among supporters of former president Donald Trump continues to incite violence. Following the Monday arrest,…
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Brutal Gang Rises as Mexico’s Top Security Threat
MEXICO CITY—In late June, more than two dozen gunmen mounted a predawn ambush, shooting at Mexico City’s police chief as his convoy drove down leafy, iconic Reforma Avenue and shattering the calm of the capital’s most elegant neighborhood, home to ambassadors, cabinet ministers and tycoons. Using Barrett semiautomatic rifles, the assailants riddled Omar García Harfuch’s…
‘El Chapo’ buried enemy alive – witness
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally tortured and murdered his rivals, his former bodyguard has said at a trial in New York. In the most gruesome testimony to date, Isaias Valdez Rios described seeing “El Chapo” brutally beat at least three men before shooting them. Guzmán denies charges including trafficking and money laundering….
WALL FUNDING OFF TABLE
The White House could back down from its demand for $5 billion in border wall funding in a year-end spending bill, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday. Parts of the government will shut down after midnight Friday if lawmakers cannot pass spending bills. Trump has threatened to let funding lapse if he cannot secure…
Exit Mexico’s $13 Billion Airport
Lopez Obrador ditched an airport project backed by some of the nation’s wealthiest businessmen By Andrea Navarro What once was a busy construction site, with many thousands of workers building an airport on land the size of Manhattan, is slowly becoming a ghost town since Mexicos’s incoming president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pulled the plug on…
U.S. Military Begins Sending Equipment to the Southern Border as Migrant Caravan Nears, Mattis Says
Mattis told reporters traveling with him that details of the deployment are still being worked out but he should have them Sunday night. They will include exactly how many forces are needed. The additional troops will provide logistical and other support to the Border Patrol and will bolster the efforts of the approximately 2,000 National…
