Ken Block’s Electrikhana Two: One More Playground Is A Fitting Farewell | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Audi S1 Hoonitron has been upgraded to include a simulated transmission like the Ioniq 5 N https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Hoonigan team has just launched the final Gymkhana film starring […]
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The Biden administration said on Monday that it was creating a “counter-fentanyl strike force” within the Treasury Department to combat trafficking of the drug into the United States by more aggressively scrutinizing the finances of suspected narcotics dealers. The Treasury’s office of terrorism and financial intelligence and the criminal investigation unit of the Internal Revenue […]
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The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. The Headlines brings you the biggest stories of the day from the Times journalists […]
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First the trucks arrived, carrying armed men toward the mist-shrouded mountaintop. Then the flames appeared, sweeping across a forest of towering pines and oaks. After the fire laid waste to the forest last year, the trucks returned. This time, they carried the avocado plants taking root in the orchards scattered across the once tree-covered summit […]
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Below the shattered windows of the high-rise hotels in downtown Acapulco, people walk alongside towering hills of garbage bags filled with rotting food and debris, from mattresses to Christmas decorations. Volunteer firefighters from distant states clear the waste, wiping away swarms of cockroaches from their arms. Miles from the coastal beachside resorts, Elizabeth Del Valle, […]
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The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China. Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the […]
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La noche en que el huracán Otis irrumpió en la ciudad mexicana de Acapulco, Saúl Parra Morales recibió un video que, unas horas antes, le habría parecido imposible. Durante días, los meteorólogos habían pronosticado poco más que una tormenta tropical. Sin embargo, Parra Morales vio con espanto cómo su hermano grababa ráfagas de viento ensordecedoras […]
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On the night Hurricane Otis barreled into Acapulco, Mexico, Saúl Parra Morales received a video that only hours before would have seemed unbelievable. For days, forecasters had predicted little more than a tropical storm. But Mr. Parra Morales watched in horror as his brother filmed the deafening gusts of wind and waves cracking against the […]
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The blueish ink of dawn spilled into the horizon behind us. I was exhausted. We had just jumped onto a moving freight train in the mountain town of Orizaba and were slowly heading north through the peaks of the Sierra Madre. Alongside me, amid the haunting sound of steel, dozens of migrants from around the […]
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Jesús Ociel Baena made history a year ago when they were sworn in as the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico. On Monday, Mx. Baena, who used they/them pronouns, and their partner were found dead inside their home, stirring calls from Mexico’s L.G.B.T.Q. community to determine if the magistrate had […]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve gotten a pretty good idea of what Donald Trump would do if given a second chance in the White House. And it is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole to say that it looks an awful lot like a set of proposals meant to give the former president the power and […]
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Ambulances rush them daily to hospitals in El Paso, San Diego and Tucson, Ariz., writhing in pain — bones poking out of arms and legs; skulls cracked; spines shattered. The men and women arrive on stretchers flanked by an agent in the telltale green uniform of the U.S. Border Patrol. “One look, and I know […]
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A leading presidential candidate. The head of the country’s customs agency. At least three borough mayors in the capital. It’s a list that includes powerful members of Mexico’s government. And, court records show, they were all recently under surveillance by the Mexico City attorney general’s office. At least 14 written orders reviewed by The New […]
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Despite being a San Diego-born foodie with viticulture in her blood, I’ve only just recently traveled to the Valle de Guadalupe, Baja Mexico’s premier wine-and-dine destination. That “travel blind spot” is fully on me. The Valley of Guadalupe is not the little-known winemaking region it once was — it’s a famous travel locale. Celebrities like […]
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Eight people were killed in southwest Texas on Wednesday morning when a driver suspected of human smuggling tried to elude law enforcement officers and slammed head-on into an S.U.V., the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The crash occurred just after 6:30 a.m. on US-57 near Batesville, some 80 miles southwest of San Antonio, the […]
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As president, Donald Trump reportedly floated the idea of shooting “missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs.” When his defense secretary, Mark Esper, raised various objections, he recalls that Mr. Trump responded by saying the bombing could be done “quietly”: “No one would know it was us.” Well, word got out and the craze […]
Read MorePhoto: INAH Campeche Center. Archaeologists have discovered an ancient circular structure in Mexico that may have been a place of worship for a Maya cult 1,000 years ago. The captivating two-floor building was excavated at a rich archeological site called El Tigre in the state of Campeche in southeast Mexico, and reveals valuable information about […]
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In a large church displaying a big blue cross near the Acapulco beachfront, dozens of people dozed in sleeping bags along the pews, prayed in silence or anxiously discussed their next move. Víctor Hugo Sánchez attentively listened to the pleas from people desperate for food, water and gas two days after a Category 5 hurricane […]
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The tourists were bused out of Acapulco to find relief as far away as Mexico’s capital. But thousands of residents were left behind to deal with the chaos and destruction of Hurricane Otis, which had turned their paradise into a wasteland. Three days after the Category 5 storm came ashore in Mexico, residents on Saturday […]
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Hurricane Otis exploded onto the southwest coast of Mexico early Wednesday, shocking forecasters as it emerged as one of the more powerful Category 5 storms to batter the region and create what one expert called a “nightmare scenario” for a popular tourist coastline. Few meteorologists initially thought the tropical storm would make landfall as a […]
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Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane as it approached the southern Pacific Coast of Mexico on Tuesday night, forecasters said, warning that catastrophic damage was likely where the storm’s eye moves onshore. Hurricane Otis’s maximum sustained winds grew to 160 miles per hour with stronger gusts at about 10 p.m. local time, when […]
Read MoreLeft: The logo of the new Lime Special Forces armed group in Michoacan, Mexico, dedicated to the extortion of lime farmers by the CJNG cartel. Right: Limes in a Mexico City market. Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Mexico’s notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel has created a special task force dedicated exclusively to extorting lime farmers […]
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Mexico Is China’s Back Door Into The U.S. EV Market | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Imported Chinese brands are already big in Mexico but building cars there would open up tax-free access to the U.S. and Canada https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> We keep hearing about how Chinese car […]
Read More Mexico Is China’s Back Door Into The U.S. EV Market | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Imported Chinese brands are already big in Mexico but building cars there would open up tax-free access to the U.S. and Canada https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> We keep hearing about how Chinese car […]
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Hurricane Norma made landfall on Saturday in Baja California Sur, Mexico, bringing torrential rain and strong winds in the southern portions of state, the country’s meteorological service said. The Category 1 hurricane had winds reaching 85 miles per hour shortly before making landfall in the town of Todos Santos, about 47 miles north of the […]
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Alejandro Encinas, the Mexican government’s top human rights official and head of the truth commission investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, resigned Thursday, stepping away from one of the country’s worst human rights atrocities in recent history as it remained unsolved. Mr. Encinas, the under secretary for human rights, had served in the role […]
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Read MoreIt’s been a tumultuous week for negotiators in Detroit, whose stress levels must certainly be at dangerous heights by now. The UAW strike just passed the one-month mark and it’s hard to tell if we should be wary, weary, or hopeful. The Engine Block has the dirty details of what transpired this past week, along […]
Read MoreMushrooms photo by Nathaniel Janowitz. Right image courtesy of Alejandra Lagunes. MEXICO CITY—When Mexican Senator Alejandra Lagunes was in her late 20s, she was living in a world she describes as “gray” with depression and anxiety. “I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t laugh, I didn’t cry,” she remembers now. She could barely get out of […]
Read MoreA member of Mexico’s military stands guard in Baja California in March 2022. Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images EL PASO, Texas—A Guatemalan man and his alleged smuggler were killed and four other migrant men injured after Mexican soldiers opened fire on them as they headed towards the border wall near Ciudad Juárez. The six […]
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