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Mexico’s largest convenience store chain will reopen 191 stores in border city hit by gang threats
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s largest convenience store chain will reopen 191 stores in border city hit by gang threats

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s largest convenience store chain said Friday it will reopen 191 stores in the border city of Nuevo Laredo that it had closed last week because of drug cartel threats. “We had incidents in stores that consisted of them demanding we give them certain information, and they even abducted two colleagues to enforce this demand,” Roberto Campa, …

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Extortion and gang violence are hitting even big corporations and business leaders in Mexico
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Extortion and gang violence are hitting even big corporations and business leaders in Mexico

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Even Mexico’s largest corporations are now being hit by demands from drug cartels, and gangs are increasingly trying to control the sale, distribution and pricing of certain goods. “Charging extortion payments has practically become the national sport in Tamaulipas.” The problem came to a head when the Femsa corporation, which operates Oxxo, Mexico’s largest chain of …

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Online asylum appointments halted at Laredo, Texas, border crossing
1 year, 6 months ago

Online asylum appointments halted at Laredo, Texas, border crossing

LA Times  

U.S. asylum seekers being returned by U.S. authorities under the so-called Remain in Mexico program are escorted by a Mexican migration agent as they walk back into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The Biden administration said Tuesday that the reason it has halted online asylum appointments at the international crossing in Laredo, Texas, was because of the “security situation” across the border …

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16 soldiers face military charges in killing of five men in Mexican border city
1 year, 6 months ago

16 soldiers face military charges in killing of five men in Mexican border city

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Defense Department said Saturday that 16 soldiers will be tried on military charges related to the killing five men in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo last month. The soldiers have been charged with violating “military discipline.” The department said those trials would proceed independently of any charges that might be brought by civilian prosecutors. …

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Mexico investigates possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers
1 year, 6 months ago

Mexico investigates possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers

The Hindu  

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office is investigating a possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers that left five men dead in May in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, according to a federal official. The incident would be at least the second case of apparently extrajudicial killings in Nuevo Laredo this year. The men were apparently unarmed and in a …

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Mexico investigating soldiers involved in ‘execution’ of five men
1 year, 6 months ago

Mexico investigating soldiers involved in ‘execution’ of five men

Al Jazeera  

President Lopez Obrador says that extrajudicial killings cannot be permitted and that the soldiers involved will face justice. Mexican prosecutors are investigating what President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called the “execution” of five men in an incident that has sparked outrage from human rights observers. 🔴 URGENTE | Malos tratos y militares disparando a civiles: un vídeo muestra una aparente …

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Mexican man: National Guard killed pregnant teen, other man
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexican man: National Guard killed pregnant teen, other man

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican man said Monday that Mexico’s quasi-military National Guard opened fire on his SUV in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, killing his pregnant 15-year-old girlfriend and a 54-year-old friend, and wounding two other people. According to the complaint, which was addressed to López Obrador, the Interior and Defense ministers and governmental human rights commission, the …

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Mexico charges 4 soldiers with killings in Nuevo Laredo
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexico charges 4 soldiers with killings in Nuevo Laredo

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors formally presented homicide charges Monday against four soldiers implicated in the Feb. 26 shooting deaths of five men in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The civilian court system said the four soldiers will be held in pre-trial detention at an army base in Mexico City which houses a military prison. The report claimed those …

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Activist appears targeted at Mexican president’s press brief
1 year, 9 months ago

Activist appears targeted at Mexican president’s press brief

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A human rights activist in Mexico’s dangerous northern border city of Nuevo Laredo said Wednesday that he suspects the Mexican army — and the government in general — are behind claims linking him to a drug cartel, which could put his life at risk. Carlos Dominguez, who runs a web site called Nacion 14, was the first …

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Mexican troops, border residents clash after 5 shot, killed
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexican troops, border residents clash after 5 shot, killed

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A shooting by Mexican army soldiers left five people dead in the rough border city of Nuevo Laredo, igniting a clash between the soldiers and residents who came to the scene to protest. The incident provoked a scuffle between soldiers and a large group of angry residents who believed the “victims were not armed and that …

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Mexican soldiers kill five in border town, sparking protests
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexican soldiers kill five in border town, sparking protests

Al Jazeera  

A report indicates members of the Mexican army opened fire on a pick-up truck in city of Nuevo Laredo, near US border. A shooting by Mexican army soldiers has left five people dead in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, igniting a clash between the soldiers and residents who came to the scene to protest. The incident provoked a …

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Mexico relocates migrant camp; Haitians appear at border
2 years, 7 months ago

Mexico relocates migrant camp; Haitians appear at border

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Tuesday they have relocated a migrant camp that sprung up in a park in the border city of Reynosa, moving about 2,000 people from Central American and Haiti to a shelter in the city, across the border from McAllen, Texas. But on Monday, people in another border city, Nuevo Laredo, said hundreds of migrants, …

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Historic division of ‘the two Laredos’ ends with border reopening
3 years, 1 month ago

Historic division of ‘the two Laredos’ ends with border reopening

Al Jazeera  

Laredo, in the US and Nuevo Laredo, in Mexico are like one city, but pandemic closures created losses that might be hard to reclaim. “Not to be able to see my mom in the moment she needed me most.” When the border reopened on Monday, Prado’s mother, 73-year-old Beatriz Mercado, left her home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and crossed a …

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Mexico's gov't says it found body disposal site near border
3 years, 2 months ago

Mexico's gov't says it found body disposal site near border

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An apparently long-running “extermination site” …

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Disappearances rise on Mexico’s ‘highway of death’ to border
3 years, 5 months ago

Disappearances rise on Mexico’s ‘highway of death’ to border

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — As many as 50 people are missing after setting out on three-hour car trips this year between Mexico’s industrial hub of Monterrey and the border city of Nuevo Laredo on a well-traveled stretch of road local media have dubbed “the highway of death.” Relatives say family members simply vanished. Orozco, a member of the civic group United …

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Disappearances rise on Mexico's 'highway of death' to border
3 years, 5 months ago

Disappearances rise on Mexico's 'highway of death' to border

The Independent  

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History of abuse for Mexican police unit in migrant massacre
3 years, 10 months ago

History of abuse for Mexican police unit in migrant massacre

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — When state police in northern Mexico allegedly shot 19 people, including at least 14 Guatemalan migrants, to death in late January near the border with Texas, it was a tragedy that critics say authorities had been warned could come. In 2019, prosecutors charged that the same Tamaulipas state police unit, then operating under a different name, …

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