Mexican Open organisers say the tournament will go ahead despite violence following the death of the country’s most wanted drug baron. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho”, died in custody on Sunday shortly after being captured by Mexican special forces. He was seriously injured in clashes between his supporters and the army in […]
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Mexicans launch friendly defensive to deflect US tariffs
Mexican officials have copied a page from President Donald Trump’s playbook in recent days, taking to Twitter to communicate that they are working flat-out to de-escalate tensions over immigration and avoid punitive tariffs on all Mexican exports to the U.S. Announcements of meetings in Washington, selfies and carefully crafted messages of optimism for cool-headed discussions […]
Alvarez outpoints Jacobs to unify middleweight world titles
Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez unified boxing’s 160-pound division on Saturday, earning a unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs in a fight that pitted two of the world’s top middleweights with three world titles on the line. Alvarez kept his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association titles and seized Jacobs’ International Boxing Federation belt in a […]
Mexican avocado town lives with twin threats: volcano and Trump
The avocado growers of Tochimilco, a small village in central Mexico at the foot of the Popocatepetl volcano, are used to it threatening them with spurts of molten rock and ash. The last thing they needed was US President Donald Trump spewing fire at them, too. But Trump’s incendiary rhetoric on closing the US-Mexican border […]