Egypt said its security forces killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, on Sunday after mistakenly targeting their four-vehicle convoy while chasing jihadists in the country's Western Desert.
Barely a news cycle passes in the region without some cabal of political chiefs and cronies getting caught with their hands in the public till. A recent report by Global Financial Integrity pegged Latin America for nearly a fifth of the yearly global outflows of illicit funds, worth 3.3 percent of regional GDP, from 2003 to 2012.
If Joaquín Guzmán is, in fact, in Costa Rica, he wouldn’t be the first Mexican narco to seek safe haven here. Notorious drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica in March 1985 following the death in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena.
"Mexico needs to resolve the case as soon as possible, not only to solve this crime, but also to prove to the world that there is a light at the end of the tunnel of impunity in Mexico," El Universal newspaper said in an editorial.
MEXICO CITY – Independent foreign investigators refuted Sunday the Mexican government's conclusion that 43 students abducted last year were incinerated in a landfill, tearing apart the official probe into a case that caused international outrage
Karla Micheel, a member of the National Democratic Attorneys Association who represents Vera's family, told AFP that the victims were shot in the head at point-blank range with a 9mm handgun fitted with a silencer. The gun was "clean," meaning it had not been used in other crimes and was loaded with untraceable bullets, said Micheel, who has seen the investigation's report.
For months, Mexicans have been clamoring for more details about Finance Minister Luis Videgaray's purchase of a luxury house perched at the edge of a lush golf course a couple of hours outside of Mexico City. Now, documents have been released suggesting that Videgaray completed his purchase of the vacation home after taking office in an unusual deal with a builder who has ties to the government.
Latin America's second-largest economy will grow between 2 and 2.8 percent this year, the Finance Ministry predicted, lowering its previous forecast of 2.2 to 3.2 percent.
The longer he floats atop the polls, the more Donald Trump has started to make people here feel a bit queasy, forcing them to contemplate whether his candidacy is really something they need to worry about.
There are currently at least a dozen journalists from around the country sheltering in Mexico City because they fear for their safety in a nation where, according to Reporters Without Borders, at least 88 of their colleagues have been murdered in the last 15 years.
