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 […]
(Bloomberg) — Mexico’s peso tumbled as preliminary election results showed the ruling party winning in a landslide that may empower it to increase state control of the economy and undermine checks on its power. Most Read from Bloomberg The peso weakened 3.1% to 17.55 per dollar in morning trading in New York — its worst […]
CHICAGO – Heavy traffic clogged Ashland Avenue near Jackson on Sunday as massive lines surrounded the Mexican Consulate in Chicago, where crowds gathered to vote in the Mexican election. “It’s a lot of people and no organization. We need more organization,” said activist Elvia Torres. Doors opened at the consulate at 9 a.m.. However, some […]
SEATTLE – Hundreds were turned away at the Mexican consulate in Seattle on Sunday, with some having waited hours to cast their vote in Mexico’s 2024 presidential election. The consulate, located on E Roy St. and Harvard Ave. E, was overrun with Mexican voters expressing frustration over the broken voting process. Several people waiting in […]
Way before 5 a.m. people eager to cast a vote for the Mexican presidential election began to form a line outside the Mexican Consulate in Chicago. By noon, thousands of people took over South Ashland Avenue, forcing police to close off streets and set up barricades to control the lines. For the first time, Mexican […]
It’s been a busy day for Mexican citizens Sunday. They are headed to the polls to decide who will be their next commander in chief. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS In Orlando, the line stretched for couple of miles outside of the country’s Consulate near West Colonial Drive. This year’s presidential election is particularly […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican volunteer searcher criticized in the past by the government has found more human remains in Mexico City and officials have attacked her for it — again. The existence of clandestine body dumping grounds is sensitive for Mexico’s ruling Morena party. Morena, which is running the former Mexico City mayor […]
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday’s vote. Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a candidate who was […]
May 28—ALPINE — A Mexican national was sentenced Tuesday in a federal court in Pecos to 97 months in prison for intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. According to court documents, Sandra Araceli Diaz Vazquez, 37, of Chihuahua, Mexico, was suspected of delivering narcotics within the U.S. On Dec. 5, 2023, law enforcement officers conducted […]
CHIHUAHUA, México (AP) — José Portillo Gil, the gang leader known as “El Chueco” — the Crooked One — lowered his gun. The Rev. Jesús Reyes then spoke what he feared might be his final words: Please, don’t take my brothers’ corpses away. Next to him, at the altar of his church in northern Mexico, […]