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  • PGA Tour’s New ‘Vacation Swing,’ Culminating In Mayakoba, Puts Golf Getaways In Focus

    PGA Tour’s New ‘Vacation Swing,’ Culminating In Mayakoba, Puts Golf Getaways In Focus

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    Emblematic of the PGA Tour’s wanderlust, when Mayakoba’s tour event debuted on the schedule in 2007 it became the first tournament the tour staged outside of the United States and Canada. It began as an alternate event, staged opposite the WGC Match Play but the tournament, which wraps Sunday afternoon, is currently celebrating its tenth anniversary as a full FedEx Cup points event with its leaderboard topper scoring an invite to the Masters.

    While its $8.2 million purse is just a smidgeon higher than fellow rank-and-file autumn events like the RSM Classic and the Shriners Children’s Open, coming on the heels of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship this season to complete the tour’s de facto ‘Vacation Swing,’ has given the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba added gravitas.

    “We get many phone calls from pros during the year telling us Mayakoba’s event is already red circled on their calendar because it’s a place where they want to be in November. It’s the type of event that allows them to breathe a lot,” Borja Escalada, CEO of RLH Properties, the real estate and hotel group that owns Mayakoba, explains.

    The Greg Norman designed El Camaleón, the centerpiece of Mayakoba, is a specimen in and of itself. Paspalum fairways and greens intermingle with dense mangrove forests teeming with colorful wildlife. The whole property is crisscrossed by a system of canals and lagoons navigated by electric boats that putter between a foursome of luxury hotels and residences spread across a 620-acre eco-conscious development.

    The establishing shots of the tournament on television alone make it easy to understand why so many players tend to tote their families along for this one to make a trip out of it. Asked if the tournament is an advertisement for the resort and the property, Escalada does not mince words.

    “Absolutely. This is paradise but you need to discover paradise,” he says. “I’m pretty sure there are many people watching T.V. saying I would want to be there and I will be there someday,” he adds.

    In the last three years RLH Properties has been polishing their gem, spending $120 million on renovations and improvements to standout as competition for higher end offerings has intensified. They’re not planning on lifting their foot from the accelerator anytime soon, with a bevy of construction projects underway including scores of new residences coming online, additions to Fairmont Heritage Place and a full renovation of the clubhouse.

    Perception Challenges

    Escalada acknowledges that attrition to the Saudi-backed LIV Series, which now includes two of the best Mexican golfers in the world in Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer was sub-optimal. Still, he thinks the competition between the PGA Tour and LIV will ultimately be healthy.

    “I’m absolutely convinced that competition is good for everyone. It makes all of us keep on alert and try to improve upon ourselves and be more creative. And you are seeing the changes that the PGA Tour has been implementing, changes that without the appearance of LIV maybe would never have happened,” Escalada says.

    One of those changes is the PGA Tour’s decision to create in effect a caste system of tournaments by ‘elevating’ 13 events and ratcheting up their prize pools to at least $20 million with the exemption of Maui’s smaller-field Sentry Tournament of Champions ($15 million).

    While this certainly has made it more difficult for tournaments not on the list to attract top tour names, a requirement that players also enter three non-elevated PGA Tour events makes it possible for tournaments like Mayakoba to continue to pepper their fields with a bevy big name stars while it makes the case for elevation in the future. Aside from Viktor Hovland, attempting to hoist the tournament’s carved iguana trophy for the third straight time, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, and Billy Horschel highlight a solid field.

    “We have the patience, we have the passion, and we have the resources and the interest to make anything that we do to be the best. When that evolution will come up, I’m not sure today, but I’m pretty sure Mayakoba is meant to be one of the biggest tournaments in the industry of golf,” Escalada says.

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  • Tropical Depression Lisa crosses into southern Mexico

    Tropical Depression Lisa crosses into southern Mexico

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    MEXICO CITY — Tropical Depression Lisa moved into southern Mexico on Thursday, a day after making landfall as a hurricane near Belize City in the Central American nation of Belize and heading inland over northern Guatemala.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Lisa had maximum sustained winds of 30 mph (45 kph). The storm’s center was about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southwest of Ciudad del Carmen, on Mexico’s Gulf coast.

    Lisa was moving west at 12 mph (19 kph) and was expected to cross into the Gulf of Mexico by Friday.

    Belize’s National Emergency Management Organization said the storm came ashore Wednesday between the beach town of Dangriga and Belize City. It reported “significant damage, including dangerous debris, leaning lampposts and downed electrical lines.”

    Local media in Belize reported some flooding as well as some homes that lost their sheet-metal roofs in the storm’s winds.

    Guatemala’s disaster relief office reported no deaths or injuries from Lisa, but said 68 homes had suffered some damage,

    The hurricane center warned of the danger of flooding and mudslides from heavy rains in Mexico. It said the storm could drop 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of rain on the eastern portion of Mexico’s Chiapas state and the Mexican state of Tabasco.

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  • US federal agents fired pepper ball projectiles at Venezuelan protesters near El Paso after border patrol agent was injured, officials say | CNN

    US federal agents fired pepper ball projectiles at Venezuelan protesters near El Paso after border patrol agent was injured, officials say | CNN

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    Federal agents shot pepper balls at Venezuelan migrants who were protesting along the Rio Grande River International Boundary near downtown El Paso, Texas, on Monday after an agent was injured, according to US Customs and Border Protection.

    The agency issued a statement on the incident after an El Paso Times report included a 15-second video clip showing what appeared to be Border Patrol agents on the banks of the Rio Grande using projectiles to push a crowd – some of whom were holding a Venezuelan flag – back into Mexico.

    The incident took place around 12:20 p.m. local time (1:20 p.m. ET) when CBP said “a group of Venezuelan nationals attempted to illegally enter the United States while protesting” along the river.

    “One of the protesters assaulted an agent with a flag pole. A second subject threw a rock causing injury to an agent at which time agents responded by initiating crowd control measures,” the CBP statement read, adding that the crowd control measures included “the authorized less-lethal force pepperball launching system.”

    “The crowd then dispersed and returned to Mexico. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional responsibility will review the incident,” the statement read.

    A US Border Patrol agent stands guard at the US-Mexico border on October 31, 2022.

    The actions near the border come amid increasing tension at the US-Mexico border following the Biden administration’s new deal with Mexican authorities that subjects Venezuelans to the Trump-era public health authority known as Title 42, which allows officials to expel migrants into Mexico after they’re apprehended at the border.

    Officials say the number of Venezuelans attempting to cross the border has spiked dramatically, nearly quadrupling in the past year. This is due, in part, to poor economic conditions, food shortages and limited access to health care in Venezuela. More than 7 million Venezuelans are now living as refugees or migrants outside their country, matching Ukraine in the number of displaced people and surpassing Syria, according to the United Nations.

    In the US, some Venezuelan migrants were separated from family member despite having already lived in the US and began protesting along the border.

    Nonprofits working in the El Paso area tell CNN that hundreds of Venezuelan nationals have been camping on the Mexican banks of the Rio Grande and staying in shelters in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – which is across the border from El Paso.

    The American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement condemning the use of projectiles on migrants, calling the incident “highly alarming.”

    “This is the latest in a long line of abuses carried out by CBP,” the ACLU tweeted. “Our government’s failed attempts at preventing people from seeking protection in the US lead to death and suffering. The Biden administration must restore a humane process for seeking asylum.”

    The Texas Civil Rights Project also issued a statement stating the organization is “appalled and disgusted” by the footage.

    “People with the incredible courage to seek a better life deserve to be met with dignity,” the group tweeted. “@CBP and @DHSgov should be advancing humanitarian solutions that meet people with dignity and respect, rather than bullets directed at their backs.”

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  • America’s Tai faces uphill battle to defuse EU trade war fears

    America’s Tai faces uphill battle to defuse EU trade war fears

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    PRAGUE — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai traveled more than 4,000 miles to prevent a transatlantic trade war over electric vehicles, but her EU counterparts signaled on Monday that they would be a tough crowd to win round.

    The growing spat hinges on U.S. legislation that encourages consumers via tax credits to “Buy American” when it comes to choosing an electric car.

    At a time when the U.S. and Europe want to present a united front against Russia, this protectionist measure has triggered outrage in many EU countries, including France and Germany, two leading European carmaking nations. Beyond the EU, China, Japan and South Korea have also voiced concern.

    After speaking with Tai at a meeting of EU ministers in Prague, the bloc’s trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis predicted it would be difficult to resolve the dispute.

    “It will not be easy to fix it  — but fix it we must,” he said.

    Among the 27 EU countries, anxiety about the U.S. measure is growing. Sweden’s new trade minister, Johan Forssell, whose country takes over the presidency of the Council of the EU in January, told POLITICO on Sunday that aspects of the U.S. legislation were “worrying” and “not in accordance with [World Trade Organization] rules.” 

    Another senior official stressed: “It’s not only one or two member states, which are concerned … It’s also the small ones; they will have no access at all” to the U.S. market.

    French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed over lunch last week that the EU should retaliate if Washington pushed ahead with the controversial bill. Macron floated the idea of a “Buy European Act” to strike back. 

    The new tax credits for electric vehicles are part of a huge U.S. tax, climate and health care package, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the U.S. Congress in August.

    The idea is that a U.S. consumer can claim back $7,500 of the value of an electric car from their tax bill. To qualify for that credit, however, the car needs to be assembled in North America and contain a battery with a certain percentage of the metals mined or recycled in the U.S., Canada or Mexico. 

    Czech Trade Minister Jozef Síkela, whose country currently holds the presidency of the Council of the EU, said that European carmakers wanted to qualify for the scheme, just as the North Americans do.  

    In its current form, the bill is “unacceptable,” and “is extremely protective against exports from Europe,” said Síkela as he walked into Monday’s meeting. “We simply expect that we will get the same status as Canada and Mexico.” 

    U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

    “But we need to be realistic,” Síkela told reporters later. “This is our starting point in the negotiations and we’ll see what we’ll manage to negotiate at the end.”

    In a bid to soothe tensions, a joint task force was set up last week by the European Commission and the U.S. The task force is supposed to meet at the end of this week, although the exact date isn’t yet fixed, according to the senior official. 

    Asked whether Brussels would retaliate should no agreement be struck with Washington, Dombrovskis took a cautious approach: “Setting up this task force is already … a response of us, raising those concerns … At this stage, we are focusing on a negotiated solution before considering what other options there may be.” 

    The midterm elections in the U.S., where President Joe Biden’s Democrats look likely to lose ground, compound the difficulties. 

    It doesn’t seem like the tensions will be eased by the next Trade and Technology Council, which takes place between U.S. and European negotiators in early December. 

    Dismay over the U.S. subsidies has overshadowed the preparatory work for the next TTC meeting, for which the EU and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic want to see rapid concrete results to avoid the perception that the format is simply a talking shop.

    Tai herself had no immediate comment in Prague, but later released a statement on her meeting with Síkela that gave no hint of a breakthrough.

    “Ambassador Tai and Minister Síkela discussed the ongoing work of the Trade and Technology Council, and the importance of achieving meaningful results for the December TTC Ministerial and beyond.  They also discussed the newly-created U.S.-EU Task Force on the Inflation Reduction Act,” the statement said.  

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  • 5 Unusual Day Of The Dead Food And Drinks In Mexico City

    5 Unusual Day Of The Dead Food And Drinks In Mexico City

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    Dia de los muertos, the Day of the Dead, is observed across Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. The lively celebration includes colorful decorations and elaborate ofrendas (altars) that feature food and drinks to welcome back the souls of the departed to the world of the living. And while there are iconic dishes and beverages that must be present on every table and altar, some producers are coming up with creative takes on some of the classics. Here are five that you can enjoy in Mexico City right now.

    Pulque de cempasúchil

    Doña Vero runs a very popular restaurant, known for its menu featuring unusual fare such as mezcal marinated venison quesadillas and offbeat seasonal specialties. For Day of the Dead festivities she serves pulque – an ancient fermented beverage derived from agave sap – infused with marigold flowers, known in Mexico as cempasúchil (cem-pah-soo-cheel). It’s a family recipe that her mother used to prepare for her grandparent’s altar.

    Cempasúchil flowers are iconic of the festivities, thought to attract the souls of the dead to the altars thanks to their strong, unique aroma. The flowers are edible, of course, and give a vibrant orange color to any food or drink.

    The mildly alcoholic beverage may be an acquired taste for some, but Doña Vero sells mug after frosty mug to her legions of fans.

    Pan de Muerto Negro

    At Panaderia Rosetta, the high end bakery of renowned chef Elena Reygadas, the seasonal hit is pan de muerto. This sweet, brioche-like loaf is flavored with anise and orange blossom water, decorated with strips of dough to resemble bones. It is not a Day of the Dead celebration without it, widely enjoyed with coffee or hot chocolate for breakfast or late night supper.

    At Rosetta, however, they added a twist, coating the breads with powdered corn husk ash before adding the traditional granulated sugar topping. The result is striking and delicious, and a homage to ancient pre-Hispanic cooking techniques.

    Ofrenda Flavored Ice Creams

    Heladeria Escandón is a boutique ice cream shop owned by Ilian Castañeda Vázquez and Maximiliano Olvera García, in the heart of Colonia Condesa. Their goal is to produce artisanal ice cream and “punksicles” in unusual shapes and flavors, highlighting seasonal offerings and creative combinations.

    For Day of the Dead, Max has transformed the whole ice cream case into a frozen ofrenda, featuring flavors that evoke traditional foods usually found in people’s altars.

    Among those represented are cinnamon cookie, guava-tejocote (hawthorn), and double chocolate, next to unusual offerings such as Mexican pumpkin, pan de muerto, and yes, cempasúchil. He uses fresh flowers to make an infusion, then adds tiny flecks of petals and leaves and blends them into the creamy mixture. The result is sweet and floral, with hints of vanilla custard. To complement the ice creams, the team is also making dark chocolate skulls and gilded pan de muerto.

    Gordimuertas

    Made from corn dough and filled with a variety of ingredients, gorditas are a street food staple in Mexico. At the famous Jamaica Market, in the prepared food section, Las Weritas are famous for their generously filled snacks with all the trimmings. This year, the popular stall is taking them one step beyond, making them with blue corn and in the shape of pan de muerto.

    La Nahuala is filled with sauteed squash blossoms and mushrooms, accompanied by Philadelphia cheese for an extra creamy consistency. If you like it spicy order La Llorona, same as Nahuala but with chile habanero added for that extra tear-inducing zing.

    Victoria Cempasúchil

    Last but not least, Cervecería Modelo has entered the flavored beer arena with Victoria Cempasúchil. Made in Mexico with cempasúchil flower extract, it doesn’t have the strong aroma or flavor of the flowers, but it is a unique brew. Yellowish orange in color, it is slightly cloudy, with light floral and cereal notes on the nose. The flavor is sweet and malty, mildly bitter and refreshing. At 4.2% AVB, it is meant to be paired with the foods of the season such as mole, spicy foods, and even pan de muerto.

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  • Mexican artisans preserve Day of the Dead decorations

    Mexican artisans preserve Day of the Dead decorations

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    XOCHIMILCO, Mexico — Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead.

    Defying increasingly popular mass-production techniques, second-generation paper cutter Yuridia Torres Alfaro, 49, still makes her own stencils at her family’s workshop in Xochimilco, on the rural southern edge of Mexico City.

    As she has since she was a child, Torres Alfaro punched stunningly sharp chisels into thick piles of tissue paper at her business, ‘Papel Picado Xochimilco.’

    While others use longer-lasting plastic sheets, laser cutters or pre-made stencils, Torres Alfaro does each step by hand, as Mexican specialists have been doing for 200 years.

    In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.

    “The business was born 34 years ago, we were very little then, and we started helping in getting the work done,” Torres Alfaro recalled.

    Begun in the 1800s, experts say ‘papel picado’ using tissue paper is probably a continuation of a far older pre-Hispanic tradition of painting ceremonial figures on paper made of fig-bark sheets. Mexican artisans adopted imported tissue paper because it was cheap and thin enough so that, with sharp tools, extreme care and a lot of skill, dozens of sheets can be cut at the same time.

    But the most important part is the stencil: its design designates the parts to be cut out, leaving an intricate, airy web of paper that is sometimes strung from building or across streets. More commonly, it is hung above Day of the Dead altars that Mexican families use to commemorate — and commune with — deceased relatives.

    The holiday begins Oct. 31, remembering those who died in accidents; it continues Nov. 1 to mark those died in childhood, and then those who died as adults on Nov. 2.

    Traditionally, the bright colors of the paper had different meanings: Orange signified mourning, blue was for those who drowned, yellow was for the elderly deceased and green for those who died young.

    But many Mexicans — who also use the decorations at other times of year, stringing them at roof-height along streets — now prefer to buy plastic, which lasts longer in the sun and the rain.

    Still other producers have tried to use mass-produced stencils, which means that tens of thousands of sheets might bear exactly the same design.

    “Stencils began to appear for making papel picado, because it is a lot of work if you have to supply a lot of people,” said Torres Alfaro, who still hand-cuts her own stencils with original designs.

    “We wanted to keep doing it the traditional way, because it allows us to make small, personalized lots, and keep creating a new design every day,” she says.

    Another rival was the U.S. holiday Halloween, which roughly coincides with Day of the Dead, Because it is flashier and more marketable — costumes, movies, parties and candy — it has gained popularity in Mexico.

    “For some time now, there has been a bit more Halloween,” said Torres Alfaro. “We do more traditional Mexican things. That is part of the work, to put Mexican things in papel picado. If we do Halloween things, it’s only on order” from customers.

    Still others have tried to use 21st-century technology, employing computer-generated designs and laser cutters.

    But Torres Alfaro says that concentrating so much on the cutting leaves out the most important part: the delicate webs of paper left behind.

    “There are some laser machines that are gaining popularity, but we have checked them and the costs are the same, the machines still cut hole-by-hole and they can’t cut that many sheets,” she said.

    “The (ready-made) stencils and the laser machine have their downsides,” she said. “Papel picado is based on what can be cut, and what can’t, and that is the magic of papel picado.”

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  • Microsoft and Sony in corporate battle over Call of Duty access

    Microsoft and Sony in corporate battle over Call of Duty access

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    Hunting down your enemies on the bustling streets of Amsterdam, along the U.S.-Mexico border or in a Middle Eastern fishing village is just part of the intense action in the latest Call of Duty video game.

    The Friday release of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” continues a nearly two-decade run for California-based Activision Blizzard’s wildly popular military shooting game franchise. New installments of the game can rival Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters in how much they earn on their opening weekend.

    But the battle this time is also happening off-screen. Call of Duty is at the center of a corporate tug-of-war between Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation over Microsoft’s pending $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard.

    Rights to the mega-hit franchise, currently owned by Activision, will be handed over to Microsoft once the deal — the largest in the gaming industry’s history — is finalized in 2023. Once in full control, whether Microsoft will allow Call of Duty games to remain on the Sony Xbox platform or choose to make it exclusive to GamePass is at question. 

    “Microsoft would have full ownership of one of the most valuable franchises in console gaming,” said Joost van Dreunen, a lecturer on the business of games at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “And naturally, Sony does not want that or like that because it will cost them business.”

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    The scheduled October 28 release of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” continues a nearly two-decade run for Activision Blizzard’s wildly popular military shooting game franchise.

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    “Must-have” game title

    Microsoft has been working to get approval from antitrust regulators in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere to complete its January agreement to acquire the video game giant. But it’s been trailed around the world by objections from Sony, which is afraid of losing access to what it describes as a “must-have” game title.

    Among those listening to Sony’s concerns are antitrust regulators in the United Kingdom who last month escalated their investigation into whether Microsoft could make Call of Duty and other titles exclusive to its Xbox platform or “otherwise degrade its rivals’ access” by delaying releases or imposing licensing price increases.

    “We are concerned that Microsoft could use its control over popular games like ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘World of Warcraft’ post-merger to harm rivals, including recent and future rivals in multi-game subscription services and cloud gaming,” the Competition and Markets Authority said in September, Reuters reported

    Blast from the past

    Meanwhile, work on Modern Warfare 2 started before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Infinity Ward’s headquarters outside of Los Angeles, forcing developers to be more creative in how they drew the game’s characters, weaponry, motions and scenery and recorded its voices. It was the same studio that in 2003 launched the original Call of Duty, a first-person shooter set during World War II.

    Infinity Ward executives declined to talk about their pending takeover by Microsoft. But Microsoft is increasingly speaking out about what would be the largest-ever tech acquisition, trying to assure regulators that it will keep Call of Duty on the PlayStation console “for at least several more years” beyond its current contract with Sony.

    PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan meanwhile has called Microsoft’s assurances misleading, telling the Financial Times in September that Microsoft had only offered to keep the hit franchise on PlayStation for “three years after the current agreement.” An offer Ryan dismissed as “inadequate on many levels, and failed to take account of the impact on our gamers.”

    While Brazil and Saudi Arabia have already approved the deal, it still awaits important decisions from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and authorities in the U.K. and the European Union. Microsoft told investors Tuesday that is still expects the deal to close by the first half of next year. 

    But it’s possible regulators could impose conditions that force Microsoft to keep access open to Call of Duty for a longer time and ensure that its rivals aren’t getting a lesser version.

    “Is it really that important for Sony on a financial basis? Probably not. But it’s mostly the draw of having all these people come to their platform,” van Dreunen said.

    And while important to console-makers and the digital subscription services they are building, Call of Duty and its fanbase is just a portion of what Microsoft would get from taking over Activision Blizzard, which owns dozens of titles including popular mobile games like Candy Crush. Van Dreunen said while the attention is on the Call of Duty dispute, that mobile expansion might be the real “gravity point” for Microsoft’s massive merger.

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  • Hurricane Roslyn heads for weekend hit on Mexico’s coast

    Hurricane Roslyn heads for weekend hit on Mexico’s coast

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    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn moved off Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday night, with forecasters predictng a weekend landfall between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn became a Category 1 hurricane in the evening and its maximum sustained winds increased to 85 mph (140 kph) late Friday.

    The storm was centered about 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving west-northwest at 7 mph (11 kph).

    Forecasters said Roslyn could become a strong Category 2 hurricane before curving northward Saturday, brushing Cabo Corrientes and then reaching the coast Saturday night or early Sunday.

    Hurricane Orlene made landfall in roughly the same region, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southeast of Mazatlan, on Oct. 3.

    The hurricane center said hurricane-force winds extended out 15 miles (30 kilometers) from Roslyn’s core, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 70 miles (110 kilometers).

    Mexico issued a hurricane warning covering a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.

    The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. Hurricane Center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast.

    Jalisco state Gov. Enrique Alfaro said on Twitter that any school activities in the region would be cancelled Saturday and he urged people to avoid touristic activities at beaches and in mountainous areas over the weekend.

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  • Arizona governor puts more containers along Mexican border

    Arizona governor puts more containers along Mexican border

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    FILE – Border Patrol agents patrol along a line of shipping containers stacked near the border on Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Ariz. The Cocopah Indian Tribe is welcoming the federal government’s call for the state of Arizona to remove a series of double-stacked shipping containers placed along the U.S.-Mexico border near the desert city of Yuma, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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  • Pair receives life for killing US consulate worker, 2 others

    Pair receives life for killing US consulate worker, 2 others

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    EL PASO, Texas — Three gunmen with the Barrio Azteca gang were sentenced to life imprisonment Monday for killing a U.S. consulate worker, her husband and the husband of another consulate worker in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officials said.

    The three had all been found guilty by a federal jury in February of the fatal March 2010 shootings of consulate worker Lesley Enriquez, her husband Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso County jailer, and Jorge Salcido Ceniceros. All three were sentenced Monday in El Paso, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement.

    The victims were returning home from a children’s birthday party when they were mistakenly targeted and killed.

    Trial evidence showed that Jose Guadalupe Diaz Diaz and Martin Artin Perez Marrufo, both of Chihuahua, Mexico, served as the hit team that killed the three on March 13, 2010, after being mistaken for members of a rival gang, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office statement.

    According to the same statement, “Barrio Azteca is a transnational criminal organization engaged in, among other things, money laundering, racketeering, and drug-related activities in El Paso, Texas, among other places.”

    The gang joined with other drug gangs to battle the Sinaloa Cartel, at the time headed by Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzman, and its allies for control of the drug trafficking routes through Juarez, according to the statement.

    The drug routes through Juarez, which is situated across the border from El Paso, are important to drug trafficking organizations because it is a principal illicit drug trafficking route into the United States, federal officials said.

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  • Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico, avoids resorts

    Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico, avoids resorts

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    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan Sunday morning and quickly moved inland.

    By Sunday morning, Roslyn had winds of 90 mph (150 kph), down from its peak of 130 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn was about 95 miles (150 kms) east-southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.

    The hurricane was moving north-northeast at 20 miles per hour (31 kph) and was expected to lose force as it moves further inland.

    While it missed a direct hit, Roslyn brought heavy rain and high waves to Puerto Vallarta, where ocean surges lashed the beachside promenade.

    Roslyn came ashore in Nayarit state, in roughly the same area where Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3.

    The hurricane made landfall around the village of Santa Cruz, near the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Puerto Vallarta.

    In Tepic, the Nayarit state capital, Roslyn blew down trees and flooded some streets; authorities asked residents to avoid going out Sunday, as crews worked to clear a landslide that had blocked a local highway.

    Meanwhile, beachside eateries in Puerto Vallarta where tourists had lunched unconcerned Saturday were abandoned Sunday, and at some the waves had carried away railings and small thatched structures that normally keep the sun off diners.

    The head of the state civil defense office for the Puerto Vallarta area, Adrián Bobadilla, said authorities were patrolling the area, but had not yet seen any major damage.

    “The biggest effect was from the waves, on some of the beachside infrastructure,” said Bobadilla. “We did not have any significant damage.”

    The state civil defense office posted video of officers escorting a large sea turtle back to the water, after it had been thrown up on the beach by the large waves.

    The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding and the U.S. hurricane center warned that heavy rains could cause flash flooding and landslides over the rugged terrain inland.

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  • Illegal border crossings to US from Mexico hit annual high

    Illegal border crossings to US from Mexico hit annual high

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    SAN DIEGO (AP) — A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    The year-end numbers reflect deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries, the relative strength of the U.S. economy and uneven enforcement of Trump-era asylum restrictions.

    Migrants were stopped 227,547 times in September at the U.S. border with Mexico, the third-highest month of Joe Biden’s presidency. It was up 11.5% from 204,087 times in August and 18.5% from 192,001 times in September 2021.

    In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, migrants were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before, according to figures released late Friday night. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time in August and is more than twice the highest level during Donald Trump’s presidency in 2019.

    Nearly 78,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua were stopped in September, compared to about 58,000 from Mexico and three countries of northern Central America that have historically accounted for most of the flow.

    The remarkable geographic shift is at least partly a result of Title 42, a public health rule that suspends rights to see asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

    Due to strained diplomatic relations, the U.S. cannot expel migrants to Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua. As a result, they are largely released in the United States to pursue their immigration cases.

    Title 42 authority has been applied 2.4 million times since it began in March 2020 but has fallen disproportionately on migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

    U.S. officials say Venezuelan migration to the United States has plunged more than 85% since Oct. 12, when the U.S. began expelling Venezuelans to Mexico under Title 42. At the same time, the Biden administration pledged to admit up to 24,000 Venezuelans to the United States on humanitarian parole if they apply online with a financial sponsor and enter through an airport, similar to how tens of thousands of Ukrainians have come since Russia invaded their country.

    The first four Venezuelans paroled into the United States arrived Saturday — two from Mexico, one from Guatemala, one from Peru — and hundreds more have been approved to fly, the Homeland Security Department said.

    “While this early data is not reflected in the (September) report, it confirms what we’ve said all along: When there is a lawful and orderly way to enter the country, individuals will be less likely to put their lives in the hands of smugglers and try to cross the border unlawfully,” said CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus.

    The expansion of Title 42 for Venezuelans to be expelled to Mexico came despite the administration’s attempt to end the public health authority in May, which was blocked by a federal judge.

    Venezuelans represented the second-largest nationality at the border after Mexicans for the second straight month, being stopped 33,804 times in September, up 33% from 25,361 times in August.

    Cubans, who are participating in the largest exodus from the Caribbean island to the United States since 1980, were stopped 26,178 times at the border in September, up 37% from 19,060 in August.

    Nicaraguans were stopped 18,199 times in September, up 55% from 7,298 times in August.

    The report is the last monthly reading of migration flows before U.S. midterm elections, an issue that many Republicans have emphasized in campaigns to capture control of the House and Senate. Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee released a one-sentence statement Saturday in response to the numbers: “You’ve got to be kidding.”

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  • Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico with ‘life-threatening storm surge’ | CNN

    Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico with ‘life-threatening storm surge’ | CNN

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    Hurricane Roslyn slammed into west-central Mexico on Sunday morning, “bringing damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains,” forecasters said.

    Roslyn made landfall around 7:20 a.m. ET near Santa Cruz in northern Nayarit state.

    The major hurricane whipped maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. A “major hurricane” is one that has maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

    As of 8 a.m. ET Sunday, Roslyn was about 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of Tepic, Mexico. It was moving north-northeast at 26 kph (16 mph).

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    “Roslyn is expected to produce a life-threatening storm surge with significant coastal flooding in areas of onshore winds through today,” the hurricane center said Sunday.

    “Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves,” forecasters said. And swells are likely to cause “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”

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    But there’s a bit of good news for residents who live inland. “Now that Roslyn has made landfall, rapid weakening is expected as the hurricane moves farther inland,” the hurricane center said.

    Roslyn formed off the western coast of Mexico and its sustained wind speed increased by 60 mph in a 24-hour period from Friday to Saturday morning – a rapid intensification.

    The hurricane has been tracking similarly to Hurricane Orlene, which made landfall October 3 just north of the Nayarit-Sinaloa border.

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  • Hurricane Roslyn forecast to bring dangerous storm surge to Mexico

    Hurricane Roslyn forecast to bring dangerous storm surge to Mexico

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    Hurricane Roslyn was expected to deliver a treacherous storm surge to parts of Mexico Sunday after plowing over the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm just offshore from the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Sunday that Roslyn had become “extremely dangerous” with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph.

    The storm was forecast “to bring damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains to portions of west-central Mexico today,” the hurricane center said at 12 a.m. Sunday.

    The center placed Roslyn’s core about 45 miles west of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving north at 12 mph.

    Forecasters said Roslyn likely would pass close to Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta region during the night, but warned that those areas would still see high winds, heavy rains and rough surf.

    A hurricane warning was in effect for Las Islas Marias and Playa Perula to Escuinapa. A hurricane watch was in effect for the area north of north of Escuinapa to Mazatlan, the center said.

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    This satellite image taken at 15:30 UTC and provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Roslyn approaching the Pacific coast of Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022.

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    The storm was expected to come ashore in Nayarit state Sunday morning. Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little farther north in roughly the same region, about 45 miles southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.

    Hurricane-force winds extended out 30 miles from Roslyn’s center, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 80 miles, the U.S. hurricane center said.

    A hurricane warning was posted on a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.

    Seemingly oblivious to the approaching storm, tourists ate at beachside eateries Saturday around Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast where the storm likely was headed.

    “We’re fine. Everything is calm, it’s all normal,” said Jaime Cantón, a receptionist at the Casa Maria hotel in Puerto Vallarta. He said that if winds picked up, the hotel would gather up outside furniture “so nothing will go flying.”

    While skies began to cloud up, waves remained normal, and few people appeared to be rushing to take precautions. Swimmers were still in the sea at Puerto Vallarta.

    “The place is full of tourists,” said Patricia Morales, a receptionist at the Punta Guayabitas hotel in the laid-back beach town of the same name, farther up the coast.

    Asked what precautions were being taken, Morales said, “They (authorities) haven’t told us anything.”

    The Nayarit state government said the hurricane was expected to make landfall around the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles north of Puerto Vallarta.

    The head of the state civil defense office, Pedro Núñez, said, “Right now we are carrying out patrols through the towns, to alert people so that they can keep their possession safe and keep themselves safe in safer areas.”

    In the neighboring state of Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 people had been evacuated in a town near the hurricane’s expected path and that five emergency shelters had been set up in Puerto Vallarta.

    The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. hurricane center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast, as well as 4 to 6 inches of rain.

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  • Hurricane Roslyn grows into Category 4 storm as it nears Mexico’s coast

    Hurricane Roslyn grows into Category 4 storm as it nears Mexico’s coast

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    Hurricane Roslyn grew into a major Category 4 storm on Saturday as it headed for a collision with Mexico’s Pacific coast, likely north of the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Roslyn’s maximum sustained winds stood at 130 mph as of late Saturday night.

    The storm was centered about 65 miles southwest of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving north at 12 mph.

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    People protect the windows of a swimwear shop with wooden boards as they prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Roslyn in the tourist area of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, on Oct. 22, 2022. 

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    The forecast put Roslyn on a path that could take it close to Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta region during the night before making landfall in Nayarit state on Sunday.

    Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little farther north in roughly the same region, about 45 miles southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.

    The Mexico National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. The NHC warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast, as well as up to 10 inches of rain in some areas.

    “This rainfall could lead to flash flooding and landslides in areas of rugged terrain,” the NHC wrote in an advisory.

    The state of Jalisco, which contains Puerto Vallarta, could see anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of rain, the NHC said.

    Hurricane-force winds extended out 30 miles from Roslyn’s core, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 80 miles, the U.S. hurricane center said.

    Mexico issued a hurricane warning covering a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.

    Seemingly oblivious to the danger just hours away, tourists ate at beachside eateries around Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast, where Roslyn was expected to hit.

    “We’re fine. Everything is calm, it’s all normal,” said Jaime Cantón, a receptionist at the Casa Maria hotel in Puerto Vallarta. He said that if winds picked up, the hotel would gather up outside furniture “so nothing will go flying.”

    While skies began to cloud up, waves remained normal, and few people appeared to be rushing to take precautions; swimmers were still in the sea at Puerto Vallarta.

    “The place is full of tourists,” said Patricia Morales, a receptionist at the Punta Guayabitas hotel in the laid-back beach town of the same name, farther up the coast.

    Asked what precautions were being taken, Morales said, “They (authorities) haven’t told us anything.”

    The Nayarit state government said the hurricane was expected to make landfall Sunday around the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles north of Puerto Vallarta.

    The head of the state civil defense office, Pedro Núñez, said, “Right now we are carrying out patrols through the towns, to alert people so that they can keep their possession safe and keep themselves safe in safer areas.”

    In Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 people had been evacuated in a town near the hurricane’s expected path and that five emergency shelters had been set up in Puerto Vallarta.

    Alfaro said on Twitter that any school activities in the region would be cancelled Saturday and he urged people to avoid touristic activities at beaches and in mountainous areas over the weekend.

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  • Computer Chips Are No. 6-Ranked U.S. Export — But Are They Really?

    Computer Chips Are No. 6-Ranked U.S. Export — But Are They Really?

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    Computer chips are the No. 6-ranked U.S. export — at first glance anyway.

    At first glance, it even appears the United States has a trade surplus when it comes to the computer chips, which were at the center of the supply-chain crunch during the height of the pandemic and are now at the center of President Biden’s escalating spat with China. As an import rather than an export, computer chips rank No. 10.

    Also at first glance, it appears that Mexico is the No. 1 buyer of U.S. computer chips.

    But, there’s more to the story.

    The story is a little more interesting when you strip out those computer chips that are actually manufactured outside the United States, imported and then exported.

    Computer chips no longer rank No. 6, there is no longer a computer-chip trade surplus, and Mexico no longer ranks first. China does.

    This post is the eighth in a series of columns about the nation’s exports.

    It follows similar series I did for the countries that were, at the time, the nation’s top 10 trade partners and one for the airports, seaports and border crossings that were, at the time, the nation’s top 10 “ports.”

    The first article in this series focused on an overview of the top 10 exports. The second looked at the top 10 countries that are markets for U.S. exports and how they differ from our overall trade partners, which would include imports.

    The third was about refined petroleum, the top export; followed by one on oil, which ranks second; natural gas, which includes LNG and ranks third; the primary commercial jet category, which ranks fourth; and passenger vehicles, at No. 5.

    The ninth through 12th articles will look at No. 7 plasma and vaccines, No. 8 motor vehicle parts, No. 9 medicines in pill form, and No. 10 medical instruments.

    Back to computer chips.

    For the first time, more than half the value of U.S. computer chip “exports” this year were actually imported — in other words, manufactured outside the United States — and then “re-exported,” according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. The national average is just 15.33% through August.

    While it makes sense from an accounting, or perhaps accountability, point of view — the foreign-manufactured computer chips did, in fact, leave the country — the $34.39 billion in computer chip “exports” this year would tumble $17.94 billion to rank not No. 6 but No. 16, with a value between that of soybeans and corn, without those re-exports.

    The $5.54 billion trade surplus would vanish as well.

    In fact, among more than 1,200 different export categories at the four-digit level in the harmonized tariff code system, computer chips rank No. 1 for the greatest value of so-called “foreign exports,” as they are called.

    Even those that are not counted as foreign exports would include computer chips that are imported, including into a foreign trade zone, and then altered or enhanced before being exported. Those are called “domestic exports,” what many people would think an export really is.

    So, where are all those re-exported computer chips and “domestic” computer chips going? Largely, Mexico, to feed the automotive sector and other manufactured goods such as refrigerators, computer monitors, cell phones and related equipment, hard drives and TVs.

    But take away those “re-exports” and Mexico is no longer No. 1, as mentioned above. That would be China, the country at the center of the spat with President Biden.

    Through August, the top five buyers of “domestic” computer chips are China, at $4.38 billion of the $16.45 billion total, followed by Taiwan at $2.62 billion, Malaysia at $2.06 billion and South Korea at $1.04 billion. Alas, Mexico is fifth, at $996.88 million.

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  • Hurricane Roslyn churns off Mexico’s Pacific coast

    Hurricane Roslyn churns off Mexico’s Pacific coast

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    Roslyn became a Category 1 hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday night, as forecasters expected it to make a weekend landfall between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn’s maximum sustained winds had increased to 85 mph late Friday night. The storm was centered about 255 miles south of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving northwest at 7 mph.

    Forecasters said Roslyn was expected to continue gaining force, and could become a strong Category 2 hurricane before curving northward, brushing past Cabo Corrientes and then reaching the coast Saturday night or early Sunday.

    “The center of Roslyn will move parallel to the southwestern coast of Mexico tonight and early Saturday, then approach the coast of west-central Mexico, making landfall along this coastline Saturday night or Sunday morning,” the NHC said in an advisory.

    Hurricane Orlene made landfall in roughly the same region, about 45 miles southeast of Mazatlan, on Oct. 3.

    The hurricane center said hurricane-force winds extended out 15 miles from Roslyn’s core.

    Mexico issued a hurricane warning covering a stretch of coast from a point south of Puerto Vallarta north to San Blas and for the Islas Marias.

    The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. Hurricane Center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast.

    Jalisco state Gov. Enrique Alfaro said on Twitter that any school activities in the region would be cancelled Saturday and he urged people to avoid touristic activities at beaches and in mountainous areas over the weekend.

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  • Seeking asylum: An immigrant’s journey to America

    Seeking asylum: An immigrant’s journey to America

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    Seeking asylum: An immigrant’s journey to America – CBS News


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    America’s border is seen by many as the dividing line between a fearful past and a safer, better future. CBS Reports followed Iranian migrant Shahab as he crossed the jungle passes of the Darién Gap, and now joins him once again as he enters America. Having risked life and limb to reach the United States, his future is no less uncertain.

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  • Tropical Storm Roslyn forms off Mexico’s coast, could strengthen into hurricane

    Tropical Storm Roslyn forms off Mexico’s coast, could strengthen into hurricane

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    Newly formed Tropical Storm Roslyn gained strength off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, and forecasters expected it to be a hurricane when it makes a likely weekend landfall between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn’s maximum sustained winds had increased to 50 mph late Thursday night. It was centered about 230 miles south-southeast of Manzanillo and moving northwest at 8 mph.

    Forecasters said Roslyn was expected to reach hurricane force Friday night. They said it would gradually shift to a more northerly course and begin moving toward land in the coming days.

    The hurricane center said tropical storm-force winds extended out to 60 miles from Roslyn’s core.

    Mexico issued a tropical storm warning from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes, which is near Puerto Vallarta. The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding.

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  • ‘Dark Wars’ Podcast Releases Official Trailer, Exposes New Details On Border Crisis as Immigration Takes Center Stage Ahead of Midterms

    ‘Dark Wars’ Podcast Releases Official Trailer, Exposes New Details On Border Crisis as Immigration Takes Center Stage Ahead of Midterms

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    Premiering Oct. 25, the podcast docuseries hosted by Sara Carter will reveal previously unreported revelations about the border

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    ARLINGTON, Va., October 20, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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    Today, Radio America released the official trailer previewing its new podcast, Dark Wars: The Border, set to premiere on Oct. 25, exactly two weeks before Election Day. Hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Sara Carter, the podcast follows Carter on her perilous journey to expose how the porous U.S.-Mexico border has facilitated a deadly trail from America’s foreign adversaries to your hometown; with cartels, slavery, and death in between. Watch the trailer HERE. 

    “I am excited to release this podcast, which is a culmination of my on-the-ground investigative reporting of our border crisis,” said Dark Wars host, Sara Carter. “I embedded with border patrol agents via foot, horseback, car, and helicopter – talking to coyotes and migrants alike – to reveal chilling stories about the opioid crisis and human trafficking that you haven’t read about in the news. I traveled to the native countries of these migrants to understand how cartels use social media to recruit migrants under the guise of easy passage and a better life. In reality, they encounter abuse, rape, and death. I’m telling the stories of those being ignored by the media.”  

    Dark Wars: The Border documents an investigation that delves deeper than any previous U.S.-Mexico immigration story to date and comes at a time when Customs and Border Protection and other government agencies have come under serious scrutiny for negligence at the border, as Politico reports. The premiere episode features a wide range of perspectives, from U.S. Senators such as Rand Paul and Marsha Blackburn to Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei to coyotes that work for the cartel among others, all to reveal a border crisis that is more serious and disturbing than what is reported in media, in a shocking portrayal of money and power that connects Mexican cartels to the neighborhoods of everyday Americans.

    Visit DarkWarsPod.com for more information on the podcast, which releases on Oct. 25 and can be heard on every podcast platform. To interview Sara Carter or for other queries, please email KennyCunninghamJr@gmail.com.

    About Dark Wars Podcast: Dark Wars: The Border is a new podcast series, hosted by award-winning journalist Sara Carter, that conducts in-depth investigations to expose what you are not being told about what’s happening at our 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico. It uncovers how this crisis touches you and every other American across the country. Dark Wars is a joint production of Radio America and The Dark Wire (www.darkwarspod.com).

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