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Claudia Sheinbaum is officially taking office Tuesday morning as Mexico's first female president and the first of Jewish heritage. Sheinbaum is expected to head later to the National Palace in Mexico City's famed Zócalo to deliver a speech to constituents. López Obrador leaves office with an approval rating of nearly 80%, Noticias Telemundo reported. Still, crime rates remained high during López Obrador’s term, with at least 199,300 homicides and 51,700 persons reported missing from December 2018 to August of this year, Noticias Telemundo reported. Mexican government data has also shown that the strategy of López Obrador’s predecessors — pursuing drug lords in an all-out war — did not improve safety, either.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Sheinbaum, Jill Biden, Xóchitl Gálvez, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, López Obrador, —, Xavier Becerra, Isabella Casillas Guzman, Ken Salazar, Nanette Barragán, Carlos Elizondo, Mayor Regina Romero Organizations: U.S, Mexico City's, Mexico City, Citizen Movement, Noticias Telemundo, Welfare, Human Services, Small, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, White, Social, Mayor Locations: San Lázaro, Mexico City, Mexico, Morena, Mexican, U.S, Tucson , Arizona

Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan showed politicians at the hearing on Tuesday two tiny "bodies" displayed in cases, with three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. He claimed they were found in Peru in 2017 and were not related to any life on Earth. The images from the congressional hearing, the first of its kind in Mexico, sparked international curiosity as well as substantial scorn. Maussan, speaking to Reuters on Thursday, said his critics had yet to present evidence to counter his claims. "If you have something strange, make samples available to the world's scientific community, and we'll see what's there," he said.

Persons: Henry Romero, Jaime Maussan, Maussan, Ryan Graves, Graves, Leslie Urteaga, Urteaga, David Spergel, Cassandra Garrison, Joey Roulette, Marco Aquino, Rosalba O'Brien, Sandra Maler Organizations: San, REUTERS, U.S . Navy, Mexico's National Autonomous University, UNAM, Peruvian Culture, Ministry of Culture, Reuters, National Laboratory, NASA, Princeton, Thomson Locations: San Lazaro, Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Peru, Mexican, Washington, Lima

☆ Mexican Congress holds hearing on UFOs featuring purported 'alien' bodies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MEXICO CITY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that "we are not alone" in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country's first congressional event on UFOs. The specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said. The two tiny "bodies," displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. In recent years, the U.S. government has done an about-face on public information on UAP after decades of stonewalling and deflecting. Reporting by Cassandra Garrison and Reuters TV, Editing by Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jaime Maussan, Maussan, Henry Romero, Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Lawmakers, Ryan Graves, Cassandra Garrison, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: MEXICO CITY, American, San, REUTERS, Scientific Institute for Health, U.S . Navy, Congressional, Pentagon, NASA, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MEXICO, FANI, Spanish, Peru, San Lazaro, Mexico City, Mexico, U.S

☆ Marijuana legalization has stalled in Mexico, but farmers and cartels are still making big plans to profit off a new market
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

An effort to legalize marijuana in Mexico has stalled after several years of debate by lawmakers. But Mexican cartels and independent growers are still preparing to cater to a new domestic market. The Sinaloa Cartel in particular is drawing business lessons from marijuana dispensaries in the US. At the current price for weed, Margarita gets roughly $25 a kilo. A marijuana legalization activist smokes marijuana in front of the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City in October 2022.

☆ Here's what you need to know about a blockbuster court fight over Cuba's debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Michelle Caruso-Cabrera | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The legal battle is over a portion of Cuba's unpaid commercial debt dating back to the 1980s. If they don't reach a deal, Cuba could then face yet another court fight over whether it finally has to pay. Because of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, American investors are prohibited from owning and trading Cuban debt, which frustrates some frontier-market hedge fund managers in the U.S. They argue that holding Cuban debt would better serve U.S. foreign policy interests because it would give Americans a seat at some future negotiating table. CRF, meanwhile, says in court filings that it first reached out to Cuba 10 years ago to settle the debt but were ignored.

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