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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] 2 Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA
Read: 3/3/2023 www.vice.com
But it’s not clear under what circumstances the companies will be able to sell the drugs, and B.C. Premier David Eby said he was “astonished” to hear the announcement.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen.
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[Link] Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home
Read: 31/1/2022 www.cnn.com
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home.
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[Link] A Drug Cartel War Is Making Lime Prices Skyrocket in Mexico
Read: 31/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Limes are part of Mexico’s identity. Essential companions to tequila, tacos and guacamole, they’re critical ingredients in the country’s gastronomy. They are also a pawn in an escalating war among rival drug cartels that is driving lime prices to record levels.
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[Link] Video Shows Narco Drones Dropping Bombs As People Flee
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Terrifying video footage from a narco drone dropping bombs as people scatter below has gone viral in Mexico.
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[Link] Keystone XL pipeline developers seek $15 billion for cancellation in one of biggest trade appeals against U.S. ever
Read: 24/11/2021 financialpost.com
Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began. With a request for arbitration filed Monday, Calgary-based TC Energy Corp.
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[Link] Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Canadian teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing $37 million worth of cryptocurrency ($46M Canadian) via a SIM swap scam, making it the largest virtual cash heist affecting a single person yet, according to police.
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[Link] Doctor Charged With False Report to Summon Helicopter on Denali
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Federal prosecutors said the climber called rescuers to say that two other people on the mountain, the tallest in North America, were having a medical emergency. But it was a ruse. They said in a complaint that the doctor, Dr.
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[Link] Police Say TV Star Killed Himself Driving. His Family Say Cops Are to Blame.
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Since former child star, Octavio Ocaña, died from a bullet wound following a car chase with police, many Mexicans have been consumed with the question of who fired the fatal shot. Police said the 22-year-old TV actor accidentally shot himself in the head with his own gun last week.
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[Link] Succession-style feud gripping Canada to be finally settled in court
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
For weeks, Canadians have been gripped by a messy public feud splintering one of the country’s richest families.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
Leaders and community members of Gitxsan Nation gathered in northeastern B.C. on Saturday evening to block social workers from apprehending a 6-year-old girl and “end the tragic legacy of our children being stolen.”
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[Link] New Program Lets Settler Canadians Pay ‘Rent’ to Indigenous Communities
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Payments are calculated based on property value or monthly rent: renters are encouraged to pay the equivalent of 1 percent their monthly rent, while homeowners can opt to pay the equivalent of 1 percent of their property taxes per month. Businesses can pledge 1 percent of their profit.
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[Link] A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
The next night, two more messages were reportedly found at different points in the city, repeating the same threat of bloodshed, but this time accompanied by what is believed to be animal meat.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion.
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[Link] Promoting Popcorn Time Piracy Costs Phone Store Employee Her Job and $6,250
Read: 21/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A federal court in Texas has ordered a former employee of a local phone store to pay $6,250 in piracy damages. The woman, who was fired, promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers and also downloaded pirated content herself.
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[Link] Federal Court Orders Pirate Box Sellers To Pay US$23.6m in Copyright Damages
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Bell Canada, Videotron, Group TVA and Rogers Communications have been awarded in excess of US$23.6m in copyright damages by a judge at Canada's Federal Court.
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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.
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[Link] Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca in Resistance Against Contemporary Colonialism
Read: 15/8/2021 itsgoingdown.org
Communique from the Oaxacan Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory on the continued Indigenous resistance against contemporary colonialism To the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and the World As Indigenous peoples, movements, organizations, and unions of this geography called Oaxaca, those who inhab
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[Link] Mexico Built a Fake Aztec Temple Instead of Fixing the Real Sacred One
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A Mexican company spent a bunch of money to build a massive replica of the country's legendary Aztec pyramid, just steps from the real pyramid that the government has closed due to lack of funds.
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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] How Smugglers Flood Mexico With Cheap U.S. Guns
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
U.S. gun laws are easily exploited by traffickers and cartels in Mexico, who have caused devastation in their wake. The following is an adapted excerpt from Ioan Grillo’s latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
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[Link] Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Flights carrying Afghani interpreters and support staff who helped the U.S. and Canadian militaries during the Afghanistan War touched down in North America over the past week, as a new Taliban offensive surges across the country.
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[Link] The Gulf of Mexico’s 'Dead Zone' Is Now the Size of Connecticut
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
A scientist-led research cruise has found that the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is now measuring at 6,334 square miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Tuesday, which is roughly the size of Connecticut.
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