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Members of the Mexican Army and forensic experts work at the site where four radio station workers were killed and two restaurant employees were wounded in Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on August 11, 2022. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Murders at the border and attacks in Jalisco and Guanajuato stun Mexico

An outbreak of violence in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, and in the western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato have stunned even Mexicans accustomed to violence.

SAN JOSE, SAN JOSE - JULY 23: Octavio Enriquez (cq), 42, of Managua Nicaragua, an investigative reporter with www.confidencial.digital (news website) rides a bus to el centro on Saturday, July 23, 2022 in San Jose, San Jose. Enriquez fled Nicaragua Dec. 2021 after he received threats for news coverage of the Nicaraguan government. About 100 Nicaraguan journalists in exile have continued to try to cover their country's increasingly repressive regime while living in Costa Rica. Daniel Ortega is a Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

‘Not even Orwell could have dreamed up a country like this’: Journalists flee Nicaragua

Administrators of popular Facebook page Tijuana 664 gunned down outside their home

National Guards stand along the road that leads to where miners are trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine in Sabinas in Mexico's Coahuila state, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The collapse occurred on 10 miners after they breached a neighboring area filled with water on Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Monroy)

Efforts intensify to reach 10 trapped coal miners in Mexico

SAN DIEGO CA SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 --- Family member can only touch fingertips through the meshed fence at Friendship Park during the family reunion weekends when Border Patrol agents open up a gate to a small area where no more than 25 families at a time can walk up to the U.S.-Mexico border fence. Friendship Park is located atop Monument Mesa, inside California's Border Field State Park. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Podcast: A place of friendship at the border closes

Guatemala arrests suspected migrant smugglers wanted by the U.S.

Column: The new generation of smug American expats in Mexico needs to face the truth

Podcast: The drought, this time in northern Mexico

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FILE - Peruvian President Pedro Castillo attends a ceremony to promote a law that extends automatic graduation from university due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lima, Peru, Nov. 22, 2021. After a year in office, Castillo has seen his poll number fall as his administration has been beset by a myriad of troubles, ranging from accusations of corruption to having parliament attempt to remove him twice from office. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

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