The U.S. government said Monday it is placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes, after negotiations over alleged unfair trade practices ended without an agreement to avert the tariff. Proponents said the import tax will help rebuild the shrinking U.S. tomato industry and ensure that produce eaten in the United States is also … Read more
“It’s sad. I mean, your head goes through all the scenarios that might have happened. We don’t know if they’re safe or if they’re missing. So, yeah. Lots goes through when you see something like this.” “So we’re going to get this convoy with all the excavators.” “OK.” “And a bunch of D.P.S. and everything.” … Read more
Ten men arrested at a farm linked to a drug cartel in the Mexican state of Jalisco were found guilty of murder and kidnapping in a high-profile trial that concluded Monday, the prosecutor’s office said. The Izaguirre “ranch of horror,” as some local media have dubbed it, allegedly served as a forced recruitment center for the … Read more
A local Mexican government official was shot dead while attending an amateur basketball game after a gunman burst into a sports hall on Saturday, officials said. Families and children were gathered at the sports center in the violent state of Guanajuato, where Ignacio Alejandro Roaro, a city council secretary in Apaseo el Grande, was killed. … Read more
U.S. immigration officials have arrested famous Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. – days after his high-profile fight with Jake Paul – for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application, officials said Thursday. Chávez was detained in front of his home on Wednesday and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized … Read more
Two people have been arrested after police found 383 corpses piled up in a private crematorium in northern Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez near the U.S. border, the local prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, attributing the grisly find to negligence. The bodies were “deposited irregularly in the crematorium, which were not cremated,” Eloy Garcia, communications coordinator of the … Read more
The son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” intends to plead guilty to drug trafficking charges in the U.S., according to court documents filed Tuesday. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez, along with his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the cartel known as the “Chapitos,” or little Chapos, that exported fentanyl to … Read more
Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said Monday. Four headless corpses were found by the roadside while 16 bodies were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle, the Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office said. Five human … Read more
Two tropical storms formed Sunday on both of Mexico’s coasts, and they are expected to drench the region for several days. Tropical Storm Barry, the second named storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, was located on the country’s southeast coast, about 50 miles east-southeast of Tuxpan, Mexico and about 130 miles southeast of Tampico, … Read more
CBS News Live CBS News Miami Live An area of low pressure being monitored in the western Gulf developed into a tropical depression Saturday afternoon that forecasters said could strengthen into a tropical storm by the time it makes landfall in Mexico. According to the National Hurricane Center, the tropical depression was centered about 130 … Read more