“Minor missteps—a traffic violation or a workplace dispute—can turn lethal for unauthorized immigrants.”
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence
“Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico’s drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue. Now, their increasingly dominant role as fuel thieves pits two of the country’s biggest industries – narcotics and oil – against one another. A May 2017 study, commissioned by the national energy regulator and obtained by Reuters via a freedom of information request, found that thieves, between 2009 and 2016, had tapped pipelines roughly every 1.4 kms (0.86 mi) along Pemex’s approximately 14,000 km pipeline network.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-violence-oil/
“Tancítaro represents a quiet but telling trend in Mexico, where a handful of towns and cities are effectively seceding, partly or in whole. These are acts of desperation, revealing the degree to which Mexico’s police and politicians are seen as part of the threat.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html
“He is best known for overseeing the case of Paulette Gebara, a four-year-old who was reported missing from her family’s apartment in a Mexico City suburb in 2010. Despite extensive searches and a media coverage, investigators found no trace of the girl for nine days, when her decomposing body was found in her own bed – even though the room had supposedly been sealed by police.”
“70% of millennials in China and 46% of Mexican millennials own a home versus 35% of young adults in the U.S. Young people in China are benefiting from wage growth that is projected to outpace the rate of home price appreciation set last year. And the U.S. doesn’t just fall behind China — France (41%) also came out ahead. In the United Arab Emirates, only 26% of millennials own a home, and Australia does only slightly better at 28%. (The average millennial U.S. homeownership rate in a separate WalletHub study rested around 40%.)”
“The attack overnight on Toyota is his first against a foreign automaker. ‘Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax,’ Trump tweeted. Toyota shares fell more than 3 percent before recovering, and Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co slid around 2 percent – even as the government and analysts sought to brush off the impact of the attack.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/01/06/japan-toyota-trump/
“The peso is this year’s second-worst performing major currency, as investors use Mexico’s highly liquid peso as a proxy for global emerging markets. Investors are also concerned that the outlook for higher interest rates in the U.S. will lessen Mexico’s appeal for bondholders chasing the country’s steeper yields. The currency slipped 0.4 percent Tuesday after touching a record-low. Since November, the central bank has been selling $200 million on days the peso weakens at least 1% and an additional $200 million if the drop is more than 1.5%. The policies to support the peso have contributed to an erosion in the country’s foreign reserves, which are near a one-year low at about $175 billion.”
“The US government must finally face up to its responsibility to suspend the Merida Initiative’s security aid to Mexican forces that murder their own youth.”
http://truth-out.org/news/item/27280-the-mass-shooting-in-mexico
“Responding to a question from Sen. John McCain, Francis Taylor, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, said on Wednesday that ISIS has discussed entering the United States at the South Texas border. ‘There have been Twitter and social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,’ Taylor told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. McCain had asked about ‘recent reports on Twitter and Facebook of messages that would urge infiltration into the U.S. across our southwestern border.’ ‘Certainly any infiltration across our border would be a threat,’ Taylor said.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ISIS-Mexico-infiltration-southern/2014/09/11/id/594212/
“[..] we need to utilize the National Guard as much as we can. But, I will tell you If you have foreigners who are sneaking in with drug cartels to me that is a national threat and if we got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point, I don’t have a problem with that either. So yea, whatever you need to do. [..] we did it before, if we need to do it again, I don’t have a qualm about it.”