A growing anti-Trump sentiment in Mexico has fueled the rise of the leftist presidential candidate who polls now show as the front-runner in Mexico’s upcoming 2018 presidential election, according to Reuters.
In 2015, Mexicans held a favorable view of the United States by a margin of 66 percent compared to only 29 percent unfavorable. As of October 2017, that had shifted to 65 percent unfavorable and 30 percent favorable.
Enter Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement, a veteran politician who has vowed to “put [Trump] in his place.”
While other candidates have tried to establish strong positions against Trump, Lopez Obrador benefits most because the Mexican left has already staked out that position.
“The feeling’s there: you trusted these guys (the United States), and they turned on you like the left have been saying for God knows how long,” said former federal congressman Agustin Barrios Gomez. “And that plays to Andres Manuel’s strengths because he doesn’t have to say anything.” – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]More than two dozen bodies, some of which were dismembered, were found buried in a Mexican sugarcane field and authorities said Wednesday that they believe the deaths were drug-related.
Four graves containing the remains of 33 people were located in the township of Xalisco, part of the state of Nayarit. The area is known as a base for a black-tar heroin trafficking ring. The first pit contained the remains of nine bodies and trained dogs led searchers to three other pits nearby.
The gruesome findings follow an ongoing power struggle between drug gangs in the area after the March arrest of Edgar Veytia, the former state attorney general, who faces U.S. charges of drug smuggling.
“The assumption is that these were people who were involved with one of the various criminal groups, but I can’t say which one,” current state Attorney General Petronilo Diaz said, referring to the bodies in the graves. – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]The Department of State issued Wednesday its semi-annual travel warning for Mexico, putting five of the country’s states in the same threat category as war-torn Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
As a whole, Mexico was rated at the second-lowest of four threat levels in the department’s new travel advisory system rolled out last week.
But five Mexican states — Sinaloa, Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Tamaulipas — were given the highest rating of “do not travel,” the same designation applied to near-failed states plagued by terrorism and open warfare.
The State Department’s travel advisory system now uses four tiers: “exercise normal precautions,” “exercise increased caution,” “reconsider travel” and “do not travel.”
Countries labeled “do not travel” present a high likelihood of life-threatening risks for travelers, and U.S. government officials stationed in those places have “very limited ability” to assist Americans in distress, according to the State Department. – READ MORE
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