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U.S. Accuses Three Mexican Financial Firms of Aiding Fentanyl Trade

“We neither deny nor accept this,” Mexico’s president said about U.S. accusations that Mexican firms laundered millions of dollars in connection with fentanyl trafficking.

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White powder, purportedly finished fentanyl, sitting on a table in a kitchen in Culiacán, Mexico, where members of the Sinaloa cartel cook the drug.

How Hugo Aguilar Ortiz Became Mexico’s Most Powerful Indigenous Lawyer

Hugo Aguilar Ortiz grew up in a remote Mixtec-speaking village. He is now one of the most powerful lawyers in Mexico.

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Hugo Aguilar Ortiz is the newly elected chief justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court.
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