Maya Averbuch
Mexico Economy and Politics Reporter at Bloomberg News
Covering Mexico’s economy & politics for Bloomberg @business | send feedback & tips [email protected] | immigration reporter at heart | views are my own
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torontosun.com | Oscar Medina |Maya Averbuch
Increasingly, the groups are smuggling coca paste — cheap, unrefined cocaine — to laboratories as far away as Italy and the Netherlands to be processed into the final powder, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. “In terms of risk, if a shipment gets intercepted they’re losing less,” said Leonardo Correa, who heads the UNODC’s monitoring and technical analysis in the Andes.
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bloomberg.com | Oscar Medina |Maya Averbuch
Bags of coca paste in Colombia’s Guaviare province. (Bloomberg) -- Cartels are offshoring more cocaine production outside of Colombia and exporting lower-grade drugs that are easier to conceal in products such as paints and plastics. Increasingly, the groups are smuggling coca paste — cheap, unrefined cocaine - to laboratories as far away as Italy and the Netherlands to be processed into the final powder, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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bloomberg.com | Maya Averbuch
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro following her inauguration in Managua in 1990. (Bloomberg) -- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who served as Latin America’s first elected female president, died on Saturday at 95. Chamorro took power in 1990 after beating revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega in a surprise election in which she united opposition forces against his Sandinista party.
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bloomberglinea.com | Amy Stillman |Maya Averbuch |Johan Ordonez
Bloomberg — El gobierno mexicano prometió empleos para aliviar la situación de sus ciudadanos deportados desde Estados Unidos, pero datos recientes muestran que apenas el 4% de las decenas de miles de mexicanos expulsados desde finales de enero han conseguido trabajo. Las autoridades mexicanas esperaban inicialmente que los aviones con deportados aterrizaran en Ciudad de México, donde habían organizado servicios de recepción.
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bloomberg.com | Amy Stillman |Maya Averbuch
Migrants at the Mexican refugee commission, following the suspension of CBP One appointments, in Tapachula, Mexico, on Jan. 27. (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s government has pledged to provide jobs for citizens deported from the US, but recent data shows that barely 4% of the tens of thousands expelled since late January have been matched with employment. Mexican officials initially expected that planes carrying deportees would land in Mexico City, where they had organized services to receive them.
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Mexico pledged jobs to ease lives of its citizens deported from the US since Trump returned to power, but a mismatched deportation process is creating challenges for those sent far from the border, @amystillman @mayaaverbuch report https://t.co/Fu7ebefm0D https://t.co/aRZEV0RnST
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have a spat over whether Sheinbaum encouraged the LA protests (she says she didn't) or incited Mexicans in the US (Noem says she did). @AlexVasquezS explains. https://t.co/f8zr9v6O07
