Days before President Barack Obama arrives in Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, the country captured the father-in-law to Mexico’s most wanted man, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The man is one of the highest profile crime figures arrested since Peña Nieto took office.
The arrest happened in Agua Prieta, Sonora, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz.
PHOENIX — It is a familiar plea from Mexican tourism officials to prospective American tourists: Look beyond the gory crime and drug war headlines, and come see for yourself that Mexico is a nice place to visit.
The Mexican navy and National Institute of Migration say each month smugglers leave 10 to 12 boats full of migrants stranded off the coast of Baja California.
Mexican authorities have rescued abandoned boats packed with around 20 migrants with no food, communication or emergency gear. The authorities say smugglers tell the migrants the boat needs fixing, then take off in another vessel and don’t return.
SAN DIEGO — In 2008, the U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego replaced a flimsy fence with a tall, thick one at Friendship Park, a spot where families separated by the border have long come to talk through the fence. They built a gate into it to allow for maintenance on both sides. But it had never been opened, so it rusted shut.
In August 2012, the Obama administration started a program that allowed young undocumented immigrants to legally live and work in the U.S. on a temporary basis.
With the recent dismissal of a trio of high-profile corruption cases in Mexico, the country’s new administration appears to be distancing itself from the last vestiges of former President Felipe Calderón’s war on drugs.
HIDALGO, Mex. — On a recent Sunday, almost a dozen family members gather at the home of their patriarch, 82-year-old Santiago Dominguez. His home is in the town of Tepeapulco, in the Central Mexican state of Hidalgo.
A lone portrait sits on a shelf of a dark haired young woman. It is Dominguez’s daughter.
“I thought she was only going for three or four years at the most, and then would come back,” Dominguez said in Spanish.
PHOENIX — A federal district judge in Dallas suggested in a recent order that an Obama administration initiative for young immigrants may violate the law.
Judge Reed O'Connor is weighing a legal challenge brought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against their bosses to stop the program.
PHOENIX — I got to do a little time traveling a few weekends ago.
It was my first trip to Bisbee, Ariz., a former mining company town southeast of Tucson and just 20 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. You have to pass through Tombstone to get there.
TIJUANA, Mexico — The U.S. Justice Department has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch InBev. That clears the way for the world's largest brewer to buy out Grupo Modelo, the Mexican company that makes Corona beer.
Brad Rzepka is a tourist from Las Vegas. He’s sipping a Corona at a bar on Tijuana’s main tourist strip.
