San Diego Union Tribune, 12/28/2008
This week’s report of Mexico news includes a train robbery, arrests at a cockfight, Operation Tumbleweed, and Telmex’s intention to enter the U.S. market.
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Associated Press, 12/28/2008
Mexican prosecutors say they won a 60-year prison term for a human smuggler who helped about 200 people sneak into the U.S. Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in 2002 and convicted on organized-crime and immigrant-smuggling charges. Among those he smuggled were sympathizers of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group that U.S. authorities have labeled a [...]
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New York Times, 12/28/08
Mexicans got new word Saturday of the narcotics mafias’ relentless efforts to infiltrate the government here when authorities accused a midranking army officer in the elite presidential guard of selling information about the whereabouts of President Felipe Calderón to the drug lords.
The officer, Maj. Arturo González Rodríguez, was taken into custody, and [...]
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