Associated Press, 7/15/2009
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the disbursement of more than $8.7 million in federal funds — primarily to San Diego County and Chula Vista — to fight crime and drug trafficking along the Southwest border.
At a news conference in downtown Los Angeles, Holder said the Recovery Act funds will be used [...]
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Valerie Rota, Bloomberg, 7/15/2009
Mexico’s peso rose, halting its longest slump since October, after a report showed U.S. industrial production fell in June at the slowest pace in eight months, buoying speculation the worst of the recession is over.
The peso advanced for the first time in eight days, rising 0.5 percent to 13.6837 per U.S. dollar [...]
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The Canadian Press, 7/15/2009
About one hundred Mexicans with travel plans to Canada camped outside the Canadian embassy overnight Tuesday to get a first crack at submitting their visa applications, and local media reports said the numbers swelled to 1,000 by mid Wednesday morning.
The Canadian government announced suddenly Monday that it was imposing visa restrictions for [...]
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Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times, 7/15/2009
Marking a gruesome new setback in the war on drug gangs, Mexican authorities said Tuesday that 12 people found tortured and fatally shot in the western state of Michoacan a night earlier were federal police officers.
Officials said the slayings were the work of La Familia, a Michoacan-based trafficking group that [...]
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