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News coverage of the immigration raids and protests in Southern California has transfixed Mexico, where reports have heavily sided with the immigrants against U.S. efforts to detain and deport them.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum encouraged violent protests in Los Angeles. Sheinbaum called the accusation “absolutely false.”
Mexico’s president condemned violence in L.A. but stopped short of directly criticizing Trump administration and called for calm among Mexican citizens in California.
The Supreme Court tossed Mexico’s $10-billion lawsuit against U.S. gun makers, but the case forced U.S. officials to acknowledge that thousands of guns are smuggled into Mexico from the United States.
Judicial candidates closely linked to Mexico’s ruling party have swept every position on the nation’s newly transformed Supreme Court, according to final results released Wednesday from the controversial judicial vote.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called her country’s judicial election ‘extraordinary,’ despite turnout of less than 13%. Mexico becomes the first country on Earth to elect all its judges, from state level to the Supreme Court.
Mexico’s historic judicial elections generated widespread confusion. Turnout seemed sluggish and delays appeared the norm Sunday.
Mexicans go to polls Sunday
Mexican authorities are blaming the Gulf cartel for the slayings of the five members of a band, El Fugitivo, in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Mexican authorities deny reports of mass executions, crematoria
