The U.S. government can curb the fentanyl “national poisoning,” which is disabling and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, Sam Quinones, the author of four much-praised books about the drug trade, said.
Various Mexican news outlets are reporting that Mexico’s government has been exaggerating the number of drug-producing labs being seized. The allegations come at a time when various U.S. politicians have accused Mexico’s government of not doing enough to stop drug cartels.
President Biden has ignored repeated requests to meet and discuss the fentanyl crisis in the country, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said on Wednesday.
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the border cities in Mexico were ran by the criminal cartels, not the government.
Mexico’s president blamed the U.S. for the fentanyl crisis as pressure mounts on his administration to stop cartels.
Approximately 500,000 Mexicans gathered at Mexico City’s Zócalo Square on Sunday to peacefully protest the “Plan B” electoral reform law spearheaded by far-left Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that would severely reduce the power and reach of the country’s independent election oversight committee, the National Electoral Institute (INE).
The Mexican Senate passed a reform on Wednesday that greatly reduces the powers and significantly slashes the budget of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s independent election oversight committee.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) praised President Joe Biden’s soft approach to immigration Tuesday, adding that his government plans to press American voters to not support candidates promising increased border security investments.
President Joe Biden’s deputies are drafting a bigger migration swap with Mexico’s president that would burst through Congress’ annual caps on immigration levels, according to the Washington Post.
Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) released a public letter on Monday denouncing the Mexican government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for reportedly putting a former member of Venezuela’s socialist regime in charge of redesigning the contents of the nation’s free schoolbooks.
“We are doing that which needs to be done” to counter cartel-delivered fentanyl and other drugs that killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2021, President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief told the Washington Post.
Mexico’s President Andrés Lopez Obrador says 40 million Mexicans are living in the United States.
The president did not appear troubled by the volume of border crossings and migrants flooding into local communities in the United States, placing a burden on U.S. citizens and legal residents.
President Joe Biden will visit the U.S.-Mexico border next week, almost two years after he effectively opened the border to millions of job-seeking, wage-cutting economic migrants.
Mexico’s president claimed to be moving a large deployment of soldiers to one of his country’s most violent states, Zacatecas. The deployment follows a cartel attack where gunmen killed one of the top leaders of Mexico’s National Guard.
El presidente de México afirmó que se va a desplegar un gran contingente de soldados a Zacatecas, uno de los estados más violentos. El despliegue viene después de a un enfrentamiento con un cartel donde sicarios mataron a uno de los principales líderes de la Guardia Nacional de México.
A Mexican doctor serving time in a U.S. prison on charges of spying for Russia is reportedly connected to top officials within the Government of Mexico.
The governments of Latin America offered solemn condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the Royal Family over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, paying their respects to Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch.
Mexico’s lower congressional chamber held a midnight vote that gave ultimate control of their civilian federal police force to the nation’s military. The move sparked much controversy as Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and his party had campaigned to de-militarizing the country as a way to diminish the rampant cartel violence.
The Mexican newspaper El Financiero claimed on Wednesday to be privy to leaked documents showing leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreeing to pay communist Cuba more than $1 million a month for medical slave labor.
Mexico’s president claims the U.S. government is funding environmental groups attempting to block one of his pet projects — a rail project near the resort of Cancun. As a result, this week, he reclassified the project as one of national security importance.
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) stated that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has “enabled the cartels to do their dirty business, basically with a laissez-faire approach, where
The Biden administration has become so “dysfunctional” that Americans are crossing the border into Mexico “because gas is cheaper there,” according to Rep. Jim Jordan
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) argued that nothing significant on securing the border came from President Joe Biden’s meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador because “they don’t care
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lectured American citizens on Tuesday, urging them to reject “conservative” and embrace “transformation.”
The president appeared visibly fatigued as Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke for over 30 minutes in front of the press, interrupting his remarks to comment about the camerawoman.
Mexico’s president is reviving calls for a continental superstate that would combine North American employers and South American employees — and sideline tens of millions of middle-class Americans.
Leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Monday morning that he would not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in a rant in which he used various false statements to accuse Cuban-Americans generally of “genocide” and portrayed President Joe Biden as a hostage to Cuban-American voters.
Obrador officially declined Biden’s invitation because the United States did not invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to the summit, even though he called the president a “good man.”
Two senior administration officials told reporters on Wednesday that President Joe Biden was still in “final considerations” for the invite list to next week’s Summit of the Americas – meaning the president had yet to decide who to invite for an event beginning on Monday.
U.S. State Department official Kevin O’Reilly, coordinator of the Summit of the Americas scheduled to begin on June 6, said on Thursday that a final decision has been made to exclude Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Biden administration is still struggling to decide whether Cuba will be invited.
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
The Mexican Senate voted 87-20 on Tuesday to amend mining laws to nationalize reserves of lithium, a key component of batteries, including those used in electric cars.
The Parliament of the European Union issued a historic condemnation of the escalating trend in the killing of Mexico’s media workers and activists. The parliament called Mexico the most dangerous country for journalists outside of an active warzone and asked for the Mexican government to take better steps to protect them.
Mexican authorities confirmed the murder of a crime journalist in the central state of Zacatecas. The killing is the eighth of its kind since the start of the year.
Mexico’s president drew harsh criticism from various international press freedom organizations after he singled out a journalist for revealing his son’s alleged income and other personal information. The confrontational statements between politician and journalists in Mexico follows the deaths of five journalists killed since the start of the year.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and Mexican President Obrador came to Washington angry about Biden’s push for electrical vehicle tax breaks.
The White House said President Joe Biden would not focus on the border crisis during the North American Leaders’ Summit on Thursday.
Mexico’s President issued a veiled threat to Republican congressmen who oppose an immigration deal to grant citizenship to 11 million migrants who illegally entered the U.S. Politicians who oppose the forthcoming plan will be singled out and denounced during daily press briefings, he said.
The Mexican president offered his American counterpart help in convincing U.S. lawmakers to offer legal status to illegal migrants.
