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Crashes on Mexico City's neglected subway kill dozens. The mayor's answer? Send in troops

MEXICO CITY — Luis Rodríguez spends three hours on the subway most days traveling between his home on the northern edge of Mexico City and his university 25 miles south.

Los Angeles Times

Mexico’s Government Is on Trial in New York

A former Mexican security official’s corruption charges reveal the hidden politics of the drug trade.

Foreign Policy

US drug trial opens for Mexico ex-security head

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

The Independent UK

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Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

The Guardian - US

Commentary: Biden’s border policy struggles reflect a deeper neglect of Latin America

EL PASO, Texas — Perhaps the most fitting sight of President Joe Biden’s recent trip to the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border was this one: He went to the less important bridge spanning the Rio Grande.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: ‘Three Amigos’ summit over, the hard work of US, Mexico and Canada policymaking begins

The three North American leaders met in Mexico City this week, pledging more cooperation on increased migration in the region, energy policies and trade disputes. It was a hefty agenda for the first visit to Mexico by a U.S. president since 2014, but the trip was an important effort to…

Los Angeles Times

Mexico and Canada leaders talk investment, energy dispute

Mexico’s president has lauded investments from Canada and says he will meet with Canadian companies that may have a problem with his energy policies

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US-Mexico-Canada summit deals lean toward symbolism, not substance

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a series of new commitments Tuesday designed to show regional cooperation on trade, migration and energy.

Los Angeles Times

Talks between Biden and Mexico's López Obrador got off to a bit of a rough start

The two leaders set out to talk about working together on migration, fentanyl interdiction and the economy. But first, they sparred over the history of U.S. support in Latin America.

WEKU

Biden, López Obrador, Trudeau meet in Mexico City for summit

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set to meet for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change

The Independent UK

Analysis: Biden’s Mexico visit comes amid tension on immigration, fentanyl, energy

MEXICO CITY — In the first visit to Mexico by a U.S. leader in almost a decade, President Biden met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday to discuss trade, the drug war and record levels of illicit immigration in a wide-ranging conversation that was mostly cordial but…

Los Angeles Times

Biden flies in to López Obrador's new airport for summit

One of the most important diplomatic decisions by President Joe Biden at the gathering this week of North American leaders might have been his choice of airport

The Independent UK

From chaos to opportunity: Could Biden’s Mexico and border visit change the narrative?

MEXICO CITY — President Joe Biden’s visit to Mexico this week, with a short layover in El Paso on Sunday, could change the border narrative from chaos to opportunity — at least that’s the hope of local leaders.

Tribune News Service

Mexican capo's arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 January 2023

The Sinaloa Cartel was dealt a significant blow this week with the capture of Ovidio Guzmán. You know the name. The city of Culiacán descended into an orgy of retaliatory violence.

Los Angeles Times

Cartel lays siege to Mexican city after recapture of the son of ‘El Chapo’

Armed men took hostages, burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after federal forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most wanted cartel leaders and the son of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

The Independent UK

Drug lord, trafficker, killer of wedding singers: How the ‘New Mouse’ followed in the bloody footsteps of his father El Chapo

Ovidio Guzman’s arrest was hailed as a major blow to Mexico’s all-powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The son of the notorious El Chapo may now face extradition to the US, writes Bevan Hurley

Los Angeles Times

City of Culiacan sieged by cartel after son of 'El Chapo' is captured

Armed men burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday in an apparent effort to prevent the capture of Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most-wanted cartel leaders and the son of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

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The Independent UK

Violence paralyzes Mexican stronghold of Sinaloa drug cartel

Organized crime has paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel

Los Angeles Times

A Mexican Supreme Court justice fights a plagiarism scandal

Earlier this month, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, a justice on Mexico's Supreme Court, announced she was putting herself in the running to become the first woman to lead the court in its 198-year history.

Los Angeles Times

Why is AMLO one of the world's most popular politicians? We took a road trip through Mexico to find out

SAYULA DE ALEMAN, Mexico — From the roadside stand in this muggy stretch of southern Mexico where Carmelo Morrugares sells coconuts for a living, the 45-year-old father of three says he can see his country changing for the better.

The Independent UK

Mexico president asks residents to reject drug gang gifts

Mexico's president is appealing to the country's citizens not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs

The Independent UK

2022 is deadliest year on record for Mexican journalists

The deadliest year in at least three decades for Mexican journalists and media workers is nearing its close, with 15 killed

The Independent UK

Mexico president insists relations with Spain still 'paused'

Mexico's president says his country's relations with Spain are still "on pause," one day after Mexico's top diplomat met with his Spanish counterpart and said relations were being “relaunched.”

WEKU

After a Ticketmaster snafu, Mexico's president asks Bad Bunny to hold a free concert

After hundreds of ticket holders were denied entry to Bad Bunny's shows in Mexico City last weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the star to put on another concert for free.

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