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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican regulators have ordered online retailers Amazon and Mercado Libre to reveal their algorithms, and to wall off TV streaming to avoid stifling competition. The COFECE order also covers the biggest Latin American online retailer, the Uruguay-based firm Mercado Libre. The commission said it had laid out corrective measures that would include prohibiting Amazon from promoting its TV streaming service as an incentive for consumers to buy Amazon Prime memberships. The COFECE also ordered Amazon not to take the “logistics” method — the manner of delivering purchases — into account in determining the order or prominence of search results. Online sellers have complained in the past that Amazon Prime forces vendors to use the company's own delivery services.

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☆ Mexico Sets Up Airlift Operations for Hurricane-Stricken Acapulco
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Santiago Pérez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People surveyed widespread destruction in Acapulco, Mexico, after Hurricane Otis slammed into the coast as a Category 5 hurricane. The storm left at least 27 people dead, officials said. Photo: Henry Romero/ReutersMEXICO CITY—Mexico’s federal government set up airlift operations to bring medical emergency teams and supplies to Acapulco, and evacuate thousands of tourists stranded in the beach resort amid devastation left by Hurricane Otis. Otis, the worst storm on record to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, killed at least 27 people and left Acapulco without running water, electricity and fuel earlier this week. The Category 5 hurricane cut off land access to the port, ripped up buildings and sparked floods around Acapulco and the coastal community of Coyuca de Benítez.

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☆ As Mexico cracks down on migrants, AMLO gains leverage with Washington
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

And right now that leverage is around migration,” said Andrew Selee, the president of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. Members of the Mexican National Guard stand on the border between Mexico and Guatemala to prevent the crossing of migrant caravans on October 21, 2022. “The Mexico southern border pretty much was the US southern border,” Meyer said. “What we are looking for is to reach an agreement to confront the migration phenomenon by addressing the causes,” López Obrador said at a news conference. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to Mexico this week along with other cabinet secretaries and meet with López Obrador.

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☆ U.S. Jury Convicts Mexico’s Former Top Cop of Drug Trafficking
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( James Fanelli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Judge Brian Cogan instructs the jury ahead of deliberations in the trial of Genaro García Luna earlier this month. Mexico’s former top law-enforcement officer was found guilty in a federal court Tuesday of helping the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel smuggle cocaine into the U.S.A jury in Brooklyn convicted Genaro García Luna of all five counts he faced, including engaging in a criminal enterprise and conspiring to distribute drugs. Mr. García Luna headed Mexico’s federal investigation agency and served as the country’s minister for public security from 2006 to 2012 under then-president Felipe Calderón.

☆ Mexico’s Former Top Cop Goes on Trial in New York for Alleged Aid to Drug Cartel
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( James Fanelli | José De Córdoba | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mexico’s former top law-enforcement official is set to go on trial Monday in a Brooklyn federal court, accused of helping one of the world’s most powerful drug cartels smuggle over 50 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in bribes. Genaro García Luna , 54, headed Mexico’s federal investigation agency and served as the country’s minister for public security from 2006 to 2012 under then-president Felipe Calderón .

☆ Mexico Captures Son of Drug Kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Santiago Pérez | José De Córdoba | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ovidio Guzmán, here in a still image from a 2019 video, was captured in the Sinaloa state capital Culiacán. MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, the son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in antidrug raid in the Sinaloa state capital Culiacán, a senior government official said Thursday. The operation by Mexico’s federal government prompted cartel members to go on a statewide rampage, burning buses and trucks and blocking entrances and exits to Culiacán.

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