Voting begins in Mexico's 'bloodiest' election

Mexicans are voting in elections which are expected to give their country its first woman president. The two leading candidates to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are both women.

The narco-lawyers behind Mexico's drug cartels

 

This documentary takes a look behind the scenes at Mexico's drug mafia. Along the way, it uncovers a dangerous yet often-overlooked group of actors - the lawyers. What role do they play in the cartel system?

‘Ridiculous’ $90 million wall on US border with Mexico comes down

A wall built out of shipping containers along the US border with Mexico in Arizona, which cost the taxpayer around $90 million, is being dismantled just months after going up. The wall was installed by Arizona’s former governor, Republican Doug Ducey, in an effort to stem illegal immigration.

Mexico earthquake: Tremor hits on anniversaries

 

A powerful earthquake has killed at least one person after a 7.6 magnitude tremor hit western Mexico.

It took place on 19 September, which is the same date as two other fatal earthquakes in the country.

In 1985 and 2017 the two other quakes killed thousands of people.

Mexican authorities were carrying out a drill 46 minutes before the quake hit.

How the Tequila fish became 'un-extinct'

 

Mexico's struggle for water

 

“The United States took away our water. If there is no water if effects us in every way." The Colorado river used to flow through northern Mexico but, where once people used to fish and swim there is now a sandy river bed.

Life at 50°C: Extreme heat and Mexico’s struggle for water - BBC Newsnight

 

In the run up to the COP26 UN Summit, we’re exploring how people are adapting to rising global temperatures through our series Life at 50°C. What happens when the water dries up in Mexico?

Pregnant Asylum Seeker Separated From Husband at Border

 

This father was only able to meet his baby son once for 15 minutes after he and his wife were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border when she was 8 months pregnant.

The risks from Covid-19 | DW Documentary

Sayulita, a fishing village on the west coast of Mexico, has been dependent on tourism for years and doing well. Then came Corona. Now the village is opening up again. The problem: Holidaymakers bring money, but possibly also infection.

 

Frontline Mexico: The Fight Against COVID-19

Mexico has one of the world's highest coronavirus death tolls. Is the country's unorthodox strategy to blame?

Latin America has turned into a COVID-19 epicentre.

It has 10 percent of the world's population, but in recent weeks has accounted for nearly half the global daily death toll. And Mexico is one of its worst-hit countries, with a death toll that has now surpassed Italy and Spain.

About one in five of its inhabitants live in the capital, Mexico City - a beehive perfect for any virus looking to spread. Despite that, many question whether its rise here was so inevitable, or if the region's second-most populous country simply got it wrong.

Trump says he'll sign spending deal on border security, declare national emergency

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced that Donald Trump will sigh the compromise government spending bill and then declare a national emergency at the U.S. Southern border.   What began as an applause line, somehow morphed into a wall at the U.S. Mexico border which Mexico would pay for to one which the U.S. tax payer will now foot the bill.  The wall is unnecessary and won't halt migrants attempting to reach the U.S.  That isn't the point.  Donald Trump who, upon announcing his candidacy didn't use the normal platitudes. Instead he launched into a racist attack on Mexicans who come to the U.S.   Donald Trump, the Republican party and its hard core aupporters are racists.  People who live in abject fear of the other and any kind of change.  Especially that which leads to the empowerment of minorities.  For Donald Trump and his sycphants its all about white privilege.


       Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday afternoon that President Donald Trump will sign a government spending package that resulted from bipartisan negotiations over border security and also will declare a national emergency, which Trump has intended to use to obtain more money for his proposed wall.

"I just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump and he’s prepared to sign the bill," McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor. "He will also be signing a national emergency declaration at the same time."

After the Senate votes, the House is also expected to pass the spending package.

El Chapo's drug tunnels, explained

Throughout his career as a drug trafficker, tunnels have been the common theme in El Chapo’s story. When he gained control of a major drug trafficking corridor in the late 1980s, Joaquin Guzman Loera — then known as “el Rapido”— was the first to create super tunnels for transporting drugs across the border. At the time, a crackdown by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) meant Colombian cocaine was in decline and the Mexican narcotrafficker saw an opportunity. By using tunnels to facilitate fast transport, El Chapo leveraged his role as a trafficker to claim new responsibilities as a cultivator and distributor of drugs.

The Billion Dollar Criminal

Altaf Khanani is a wanted man. He leads a syndicate that launders billions of dollars for the world's biggest drug cartels and armed groups, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

He has evaded authorities for decades.

"The network that he built on six different continents created an air about him that he was an untouchable," says Robert Cassita, a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

"I always kind of liken him to a James Bond villain."

No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border (video)

Fault Lines investigates how the Trump administration is closing its doors to asylum seekers.

In May, the Trump administration announced a "zero tolerance" immigration policy, resulting in the separation of thousands of families who crossed the US border from Mexico - with no clear plan to reunite them. In hundreds of cases, parents were deported without their children; back to the same country and the same violence they were fleeing.

In Honduras, we tracked down two fathers who were deported without their children. They told us they were denied the right to claim asylum.

No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border

Fault Lines investigates how the Trump administration is closing its doors to asylum seekers.

In May, the Trump administration announced a "zero tolerance" immigration policy, resulting in the separation of thousands of families who crossed the US border from Mexico - with no clear plan to reunite them. In hundreds of cases, parents were deported without their children; back to the same country and the same violence they were fleeing.

In Honduras, we tracked down two fathers who were deported without their children. They told us they were denied the right to claim asylum. 

America's Guns: Arming Mexico's Cartels

People and Power investigates how an astonishing flow of arms from the US has exacerbated crime and conflict in Mexico.

The United States's constitutionally enshrined love-affair with firearms has given it the highest levels of private gun ownership in the world, a truly staggering rate of gun-related deaths (from high-profile "mass killings" to more routine daily homicides), and a hugely powerful and wealthy arms industry dedicated to preserving the status quo.

Following the latest appalling calamity in February, when 17 people were slaughtered at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the pro and anti-gun ownership lobbies have been engaging in a now familiar debate about the extent to which US gun laws should be tightened up - with the notoriously pro-gun President Donald Trump pledging to stop such carnage happening in the future.

Trade wars, explained

Tariffs can be used as a useful tool to protect domestic industry or to serve as a punitive measure against another country. But President Trump’s bluster and threats of imposing tariffs on foreign imports to the US have raised the specter of a trade war with China, and more recently, Mexico. The “weapons” used in a trade war are the stuff we use everyday — the food we eat, the cars we drive to work and the computers we use. If a trade war can have such a pervasive impact on our daily lives, why would a country choose to engage in one? And what even is a trade war anyway

Seeking Justice in Mexico, US and Turkey

Mothers march against US police violence; activists lobby for change in Turkey; friends search for Mexico's disappeared.

After her unarmed son, Dontre Hamilton, was shot and killed by a police officer in Milwaukee, US, Maria Hamilton formed Mothers for Justice to bring together women who have lost their children to police or vigilante violence.

After months of organising, the mothers took their demands to Washington, DC.

"I found out that justice wasn't served in any of these [other mothers' cases] and it was overwhelming," says Maria. "We are ordering a national call for the DoJ (Department of Justice) to have special prosecutors, people who do not have any links to the police officers or the DA's (District Attorney) office."

America's Guns: Arming Mexico's Cartels (video)

People and Power investigates how an astonishing flow of arms from the US has exacerbated crime and conflict in Mexico.

The United States's constitutionally enshrined love-affair with firearms has given it the highest levels of private gun ownership in the world, a truly staggering rate of gun-related deaths (from high-profile "mass killings" to more routine daily homicides), and a hugely powerful and wealthy arms industry dedicated to preserving the status quo.

Following the latest appalling calamity in February, when 17 people were slaughtered at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the pro and anti-gun ownership lobbies have been engaging in a now familiar debate about the extent to which US gun laws should be tightened up - with the notoriously pro-gun President Donald Trump pledging to stop such carnage happening in the future.

Mexico: The other side of the wall (video)

A teenage brother and sister take on the responsibility of raising their young siblings when their mother is imprisoned.

When their mother is sentenced to 10 years in a Mexican prison on questionable charges, teenagers Rocio and Ale are left with no choice but to play the role of mother and father to their two younger siblings, David and Yami. 

As Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, they lack work papers, making opportunities for employment scarce.

While 18-year old Ale tries his best to make rational decisions for the good of the family, the pressure mounts. Finances are tight, his girlfriend is expecting and his 13-year old sister Rocio is testing her teenage boundaries, wanting less responsibility and more freedom. Fearing she may get herself into trouble, Ale clamps down and tensions between them escalate.