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Deadly Matamoros kidnapping has sparked fear among Black migrants, aid workers say

DALLAS — The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels.

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Colombian government, ELN agree to start ceasefire talks

MEXICO CITY - Colombia's government and the country's last recognized guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), said Friday they had agreed to begin negotiating a ceasefire, as the two sides wrapped up a second round of peace talks in Mexico.

Bangkok Post

‘Si se puede’: Alexa Grasso’s historic UFC 285 title win was inspired by rise of Mexican MMA

Alexa Grasso reflects on her historic UFC title win and rise of Mexican MMA.

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Mexico's leader denies his country's role in fentanyl crisis. Republicans are furious

Republican lawmakers want Mexico to accept U.S. military aid to cripple drug cartels making and smuggling deadly fentanyl. López Obrador mocked the idea as a threat to his country's sovereignty.

WEKU

Girl, 8, kidnapped from Washington mall in 2018 found alive in Mexico

Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was four-years-old when she was last seen on a supervised visit with her biological mother at the mall

Evening Standard

Girl, 8, who disappeared from shopping mall finally found in Mexico five years later

Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was on a supervised visit with her biological mum at a mall in Vancouver, Washington, US, when the mother kidnapped the child and disappeared

Daily Mirror

Cartel letter doesn't dull pain for Americans' families

Relatives of Americans abducted in Mexico said that a purported apology from the Mexican cartel blamed for the attack has done little to dull the pain of their loved ones being killed or wounded

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Mexico President Andrés López Obrador blames fentanyl crisis on U.S., denies his country produces the opioid

Despite enormous evidence to the contrary, he said: “Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl. Why don’t they” — the United States — “take care of their problem of social decay?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Becoming Frida Kahlo on BBC Two review: documentary reveals the woman behind the icon

The painter’s pain is there to see on her canvases, and this documentary sensitively reveals the astonishing life that she poured out in paint

Evening Standard

Commentary: Why the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico turned into a political spectacle

When the truck with North Carolina plates crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, on Friday, the so-called falcons in charge of monitoring the border area notified their bosses of the presence of four Americans.

Los Angeles Times

The bodies of 2 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico have been returned to the U.S.

Their companions are recovering in a U.S. hospital. So far, only one arrest has been made in relation to the kidnapping.

WEKU

After the kidnapping of 4 Americans, Mexico's president blasts US demand for drugs

MEXICO CITY — As investigators continued their search for the gunmen who kidnapped four Americans in the border city of Matamoros last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lashed out at Republican U.S. lawmakers who have proposed sending troops into Mexico, telling them that the United States should concentrate…

Los Angeles Times

Apology letter by 'Scorpions' drug gang found after Americans killed in Mexico

Five men, members of a faction of the Gulf cartel named the 'Scorpions', were reportedly turned in to authorities in Matamoros, Mexico, along with a letter allegedly assuming responsibility for the kidnapping of four Americans

Daily Mirror

Mexico talks fentanyl, arms trafficking with U.S. Homeland Security

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday he discussed fentanyl and arms trafficking in a meeting with U.S. Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

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The Independent UK

Girl, 8, kidnapped from Washington state mall in 2018 found alive in Mexico

Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez found in Michoacán, Mexico, in February and returned to US

Daily Mirror

Friend of kidnapped Americans shares how she narrowly avoided Mexico ordeal

Cheryl Orange, a friend of Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown, and Shaeed Woodard who were kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico, described how she dodged the ordeal

The Independent UK

Mexican Gulf drug cartel boss ‘La Kena’ could be behind deadly kidnapping of American tourists

Jose Alberto Garcia Vilano’s whereabouts remain unknown since Mexican officials put out a reward for his capture in April 2022

The Independent UK

Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem

Mexico's president has said his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary

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Al Jazeera

Mexico’s president slams calls for US military to target cartels

Lopez Obrador denounces Republican-led push for US military intervention after fatal drug cartel abduction of Americans.

The Independent UK

Mexico town Americans were kidnapped was site of horror 1989 murder of spring breaker Mark Kilroy

Almost 34 years after the killing of Mark Kilroy, Matamoros is once again the site of global attention after the kidnapping of four American tourists from South Carolina

The Conversation

Becoming Frida Kahlo: new BBC documentary paints a compelling portrait of the Mexican artist

Nearly 70 years after her death the brilliant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo continues to fascinate for her unique artistic language that interprets her physical and emotional pain, her unconventional relationships with men and women, and her complex marriage to the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy offers warm reception to Biden border proposal as Democrats recoil

The Austin Republican’s tacit approval only adds fuel to the fire for Texas Democrats recoiling at the report that the Biden administration could detain asylum-seekers.

Daily Mirror

Owl accidentally gets treated to two-week Caribbean cruise after stowing away on ship

The nine-inch burrowing owl was eventually caught by staff at Florida Fish and Wildlife having found itself on the Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas voyage to Mexico

Daily Mirror

Survivor of deadly Mexico kidnapping details horror of watching loved ones' last moments

The four friends had driven across the border into Mexico to attend a tummy-tuck appointment, but were ambushed in the city of Matamoros by armed men and bullets started flying

Los Angeles Times

Kitesurfing Californians found the perfect beach in Baja. Then they gentrified it

LA VENTANA, Mexico — Days after Kirk Robinson got fired from a corporate job he hated, he and a windsurfing buddy loaded their gear into his Volkswagen van and headed south from Los Angeles in search of a mythic beach.

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