Since Saturday the Panama Canal has been operating with a draught of 48.5 feet (14.78 metres) in its Neopanamax locks as a preventive measure against the drought, according to Telesur. Bloomberg reports that Mexico is using the squeeze on global waterways to promote its own interoceanic corridor.
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Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said the US government had cancelled his visa and attacked Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter, according to reports by the New York Times, Bloomberg and Breitbart. President Sheinbaum criticised the revocation of visas held by Mexican political figures.
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Colombia's toll from Monday's magnitude 7.4 quake is now put at 265 to 281 dead, with about 380 people missing and more than 40,000 families affected. Rescuers made a final push on Thursday as the 72-hour window closed.
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Colombia has authorised joint US military operations against cartels on its soil and joined the US-funded Shield of the Americas coalition, Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Mexico is pressing the United States to lower its tariffs on cars. In Canada, more than 110,000 people had signed a petition by Thursday calling for the removal of US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, according to Daily Sabah.
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Canadian officials are considering accepting US tariffs on car exports in return for lower levies on vehicles that comply with the USMCA trade pact, while Mexico is pushing separately for reduced auto duties, according to the Wall Street Journal. The New York Times reports that some Canadian companies may only survive by moving to the United States if Donald Trump goes ahead with 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods later this month.
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Mexican prosecutors have formally charged Ángel Aguirre, who was governor of Guerrero when 43 students disappeared in 2014, over his alleged involvement in the case, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. The disappearance became a symbol of cartel violence in Mexico.
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The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Raúl G. Rodríguez Castro, the Castro family's envoy in talks with the Trump administration, was once named in a case targeting a Cuban smuggling ring in Quintana Roo, Mexico. TASS reported on Wednesday that Rubio, the head of US foreign policy, expects Cuba to embark on major change before the end of Trump's term, without disclosing details.
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China's commerce ministry imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 54.3 percent, collected as deposits, on pecans from the United States and Mexico, and asked in Geneva on Monday to join Brazil's WTO consultations against US tariffs of up to 37.5 percent. More than 38 million dollars in tariff refunds from US Customs and Border Protection, plus accrued interest, have reached Chinese companies' accounts, the South China Morning Post reported.
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The Trump administration has refunded importers about $100bn of the "liberation day" tariffs, roughly 60% of what it collected. The Supreme Court ruled the levies illegal in February.
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Members of the United Cartels set fire to a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán after a military raid in which authorities arrested one of the group's top leaders, Breitbart reported on Monday. The report does not name the town or give casualty figures.
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Authorities in Michigan announced the first two deaths in a US cyclospora outbreak and said both people had underlying conditions, Al Jazeera reported on Monday. Thousands have fallen ill, and investigators suspect iceberg lettuce imported from Mexico as the cause, according to the FAZ.
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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, who was arrested in New Jersey in June, died on Saturday at the Delaney Hall detention centre after what ICE called a 'medical emergency', the 22nd death in the agency's custody, the Guardian reported. In a separate case, an officer fired into a stopped vehicle during a raid and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, then said 'Mexicans!' after checking the ID of his brother Víctor, the surviving brother's lawyer told El País.
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Washington's new Section 301 duties of 10% to 12.5%, imposed on some 60 countries over allegedly weak enforcement of forced-labour bans, are now in force and cover 99.4% of US imports according to the US Trade Representative. Switzerland has rejected the forced-labour accusations used to justify its levy, while the United States is pressing Mexico to copy its steel tariff wall aimed at China. The measures are being challenged in US courts, months after the Supreme Court struck down an earlier round of tariffs.
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Seven journalists have been killed in Mexico since January, adding to a series of direct attacks on local media outlets and reporters across the country, according to El País. Arrests have been made in only one of the cases.
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