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The teenager practiced driving from his apartment in San Diego down to Tijuana and back, on the orders of the criminals he was working for in Mexico. He rehearsed how he would respond to questions from U.S. border officers. He tracked when the drug-sniffing dogs took a break. The men who were paying him had …
The mayor-elect of a small municipality near the crime-plagued Mexican resort city of Acapulco was assassinated early Monday, local prosecutors said — the latest in a series of attacks targeting politicians. Salvador Villalba Flores — who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 80 miles southeast of …
Looting broke out in the Mexican city of Acapulco on Thursday after Hurricane Otis devastated the resort with widespread flooding. The Category 5 hurricane made landfall on Wednesday and tore across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast. Otis’ impact was particularly felt in the coastal city of Acapulco, which was left without access to electricity or internet. …
National Hurricane Center: "A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico this evening with rapidly intensifying Otis approaching the coastline…This is an extremely serious situation for the Acapulco metropolitan area…There are no hurricanes of record even close to… pic.twitter.com/67b14GpRwd — Steve Lookner (@lookner) October 25, 2023 Hurricane #Otis Advisory 12: Otis Rapidly Intensifies to a …