El Paso health inspectors cited three restaurants for over 50 health violations from May 28 to 30. The violations ranged from an employee handling ready-to-eat food with bare hands and two dead cockroaches in the storage area to an ice machine with black and pink mold-like residue. A score of 70 or above is passing. A score […]
This screenshot shows a family photo being used by Sylvia Annette Sundermann on a GoFundMe page to help cover medical and funeral expenses for Jorge Guillen and Lizette Zambrano. Zambrano is in critical condition after both were electrocuted in a deadly hot tub incident. The El Paso woman critically injured after a deadly hot tub […]
A man died after he was electrocuted in a Jacuzzi at a Mexican resort, local officials announced Wednesday. The 43-year-old man was in the Jacuzzi alongside another person when both were shocked, the attorney general’s office for the state of Sonora said in a statement on Facebook. The man was from El Paso, Texas, and […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican peso continued to weaken Tuesday as Mexico’s outgoing president — and his successor — vowed to forge ahead with some 20 c onstitutional changes that have rattled investors. Claudia Sheinbaum won this month’s presidential election. But she has spent much of the time since then trying to reassure markets, […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican peso continued to weaken Tuesday as Mexico’s outgoing president — and his successor — vowed to forge ahead with some 20 c onstitutional changes that have rattled investors. Claudia Sheinbaum won this month’s presidential election. But she has spent much of the time since then trying to reassure markets, […]
Tacoma Mall was the site of at least one drug deal that led to a 2022 federal smuggling, human trafficking and money laundering indictment for a 28-year-old California man. He was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to more than five years in prison. The sentence also includes four years of supervised release, […]
Hundreds of Mexican citizens and Mexican Americans with dual citizenship living in Washington were turned away this week at a mobile office in Pasco of the Mexican Consulate from Seattle. Demand far exceeded the number of appointments offered daily to help with renewing existing passports, getting new passports and other document services for traveling and […]
COTIJA, Mexico (Reuters) – The mayor of a western Mexican town was ambushed and killed by gunmen on Monday, shortly after the country elected its first-female president, following what was the bloodiest campaign in the country’s history. Yolanda Sanchez, the mayor of Cotija in the state of Michoacan since 2021, was shot 19 times in […]
Claudia Sheinbaum will become Mexico’s next president — and its first female leader in more than 200 years of independence. – Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Exchange-traded funds that track Mexican equities suffered their biggest daily decline in over four years on Monday, after Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexico’s presidential election sparked investor concerns that her party’s […]
Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president. Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021. She was the first woman to be elected to the post. […]
CHICAGO — On Sunday, long lines stretched around the block outside Chicago’s Mexican Consulate, as more than 1,000 Mexican nationals came out to vote in person for the country’s 2024 presidential election. What a historic election it was. Mexico’s presidential winner, Claudia Sheinbaum, will become the first woman president in the country’s 200-year history. Sheinbaum’s […]
Manuel Medrano is a former member of the Arizona Mexican Mafia, also known as the New Mexican Mafia, a US prison gang. He was in and out of the Arizona Department of Corrections for 20 years and served time for armed robbery and drug trafficking. Medrano speaks with Business Insider about the gang structure and […]