MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro near Belize have hunted the meat and salmon-pink shells of queen conch for generations. As populations have shrunk in recent decades, Mexico has enforced limits and bans on catching the shellfish. The species has continued to decline …
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The Monroe Doctrine, a muscular defense of national interests reflecting the burgeoning strength of the young United States, was espoused by President James Monroe on this day in history, Dec. 2, 1823. The powerful policy statement warned ever-warring European colonial powers against bringing their Old World conflicts to the Western …
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A Mexican Senate session descended into chaos on Wednesday when two senior politicians traded blows following a heated debate over the U.S.’ involvement in the fight against drug cartels. Video captured the explosive momentwhen Alejandro “Alito” Moreno, head of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), andGerardo Fernández Noroña, the Senate …
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Federal law enforcement officials suspect Mexican criminal organizations are funding a scheme to pay thousands of dollars in cash bounties for the killings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with payouts allegedly increasing based on an employee’s rank and actions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday …
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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced the successful interdiction of 100,000 pounds of cocaine throughOperation Pacific Viper, a months-long international effort targeting transnational criminal organizations operating in the Eastern Pacific. The operation is a surge in Coast Guard forces to the Eastern Pacific aimed at stopping cartels and transnational criminal …
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Back when President Joe Biden was presiding over essentially open U.S. borders, Iarguedthat, contrary to leftist wishes, border walls actually do work. They are not intended to stop everyone coming through, by any means, but to stop illegal people, goods and drugs getting through easily. Now the Department ofHomeland Security …
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