Mexican state of Veracruz

Espanola de Petroleos, or Cepsa, won two blocks that form part of the Tampico-Misantla and Veracruz basin off the coast of Veracruz state, and another two in that area were won by Pemex and Cepsa jointly. “We are very happy to see Pemex advancing in the direction of partnerships” to improve crude ...

Among the assets seized are ranches, houses, commercial premises, parcels of land and helicopters. The state of Veracruz has also gone to court in Florida to recoup more than US $25 million that was allegedly invested by Duarte in 41 properties in Miami-Dade County. Source: El Universal (sp). Share18.

Xalapa, Mexico—This pleasant colonial city in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains, the capital of Veracruz state, is deceptively calm. Despite the surface normality, Veracruz may be the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. In the past seven years, a total of 25 reporters have ...

... An independent Mexican journalist who reported on politics and crime was shot dead Wednesday night in the violent coastal state of Veracruz, one of the ... In a statement about Vazquez, the Veracruz State Commission for Attention and Protection of Journalists implored police to “consider his journalistic ...

A local journalist has been killed in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico, according to reports in local media. Leobardo Vazquez Atzin, 42, was shot dead on Wednesday night inside his home in the state known for drug violence, reports said, adding that the alleged suspects left the scene on a motorcycle ...

A man offers a hippopotamus that locals have named Tyson, a branch to snack on, in Las Chopas, Veracruz state, Mexico, Friday, March 9, 2018. Nobody knows where the ... The hippo appears to have been living in a pair of ponds near Las Chopas, in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Mexico's office for ...

VERACRUZ, MEXICO – Police in Mexico's corruption-plagued state of Veracruz set up units that used dirty-war, death-squad style tactics to abduct, kill and ... While individual groups of corrupt cops have been known to turn youths over to drug cartels in several areas of Mexico, the Veracruz state case is ...

FILE - In this July 2, 2017 file photo, Veracruz state police stand at roadblock along the highway leaving Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Police in Mexico's corruption-plagued state of Veracruz set up police units that used dirty-war, death-squad style tactics to abduct, kill and dispose of at least 15 people, mostly ...

FILE - In this July 2, 2017 file photo, Veracruz state police stand at roadblock along the highway leaving Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Police in Mexico's corruption-plagued state of Veracruz set up police units that used dirty-war, death-squad style tactics to abduct, kill and dispose of at least 15 people, mostly ...

An employee uses a skid-steer loader to push stored corn imported from Brazil to load a tractor trailer at a warehouse in the terminal port of Portimex in Tuxpan, in Veracruz state, Mexico February 21, 2018. Picture taken February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Romero A tractor trailer is loaded with corn ...

"It was apparently an irregularity, because he should have been informed," Navarrete said, adding that "the only purpose was to report any mishap" that might occur when the candidate was on the highway to a campaign event over the weekend in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where drug cartel violence ...

Policemen of Veracruz state cover their faces while arriving to court for their implication in the enforced disappearance of at least 15 persons in Xalapa, Mexico February 8, 2018. — Reuters picCOATZACOALCOS (Mexico), Feb 9 — Authorities in the violent Mexican state of Veracruz accused two former ...

Official documents from both federal and state prosecutors show that in the state of Veracruz, where violence is widespread due to warring drug cartels, a total of 145 cases of "forced disappearances" have been investigated where police officers of various levels of government are allegedly involved, ...

The Mexican state of Veracruz filed civil lawsuits this week alleging that dozens of Houston-area properties were bought with millions of dollars stolen by the state's now-jailed former governor. Javier Duarte de Ochoa has been charged by Mexican authorities with diverting nearly $3 billion from the coffers ...

In a suit filed Wednesday, the government of the Mexican state of Veracruz alleges that hundreds of homes around The Woodlands and Spring were bought and leased with money their ex-governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa allegedly embezzled while serving in the government. Many of the homes are ...

XALAPA, Mexico (AP) _ A state governor in eastern Mexico is confirming the deaths of 10 people in apparent clashes between criminal gangs, saying nine of the dead were dismembered. Veracruz Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes also announced Sunday that a new federal effort would be launched to reinforce ...

... of the force — in the troubled Mexican state of Veracruz for their alleged role in 15 forced disappearances committed between April and October of 2013, ... addressed to superiors” that confirmed the existence of two paramilitary groups that carried out forced disappearances within Veracruz's state police.