Ex-Veracruz state Gov. Javier Duarte looked pale and visibly tired as he was brought to the military base in Guatemalas capital guarded by two dozen police officers. Prosecutors in Mexico directed the Foreign Relations Department to request his extradition to his homeland, where he is wanted on sus
Date: Apr 16, 2017
Category: World
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Fugitive Mexican ex-governor moved to Guatemalan prison
Garcia Harfuch said investigators identified many homes, telephone numbers and vehicles related to people who supported Javier Duarte from Mexico City in the logistics of his stay and movement in Guatemala.
Date: Apr 16, 2017
Category: World
Source: Google
Mexican official: 250 skulls found in clandestine graves
For many years, the drug cartels disappeared people and the authorities were complacent, Winckler said, in apparent reference to the administration of fugitive former Gov. Javier Duarte and his predecessors.
Date: Mar 14, 2017
Category: World
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No justice in Veracruz, as journalist's death is unsolved
Four others already had been murdered in Veracruz state in the first two years of Gov. Javier Duarte's term first columnist Noel Lopez Olguin, kidnapped and killed by a blow to the head. Then Miguel Angel Lopez and Misael Lopez Solana, father and son who worked for the newspaper Notiver, shot to d
Date: Dec 01, 2016
Category: World
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A federal judge who ruled on some of Mexico's highest profile criminal cases was gunned down in broad daylight
On Tuesday, the Mexican media reported that an arrest warrant for organized crime and illegal enrichment had been issued against Javier Duarte, who stepped down from the governorship last week with six weeks remaining in his term amid widespread allegations that he was corrupt and implicated in
Date: Oct 18, 2016
Category: World
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Mexico's PRI Suspends Controversial Governor's Party Membership
Citing damage to the party's image and the strength of corruption allegations leveled against Veracruz state Governor Javier Duarte, the PRI's seven-member justice commission approved the suspension of him and to six of his aides.
Date: Sep 26, 2016
Category: World
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New Storm Forms off Mexico; Toll in Earlier Storm Hits 38
Rains also set off mudslides in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz that killed 10 people, officials reported. Gov. Javier Duarte said the landslides were in the towns of Cocomatepec, Tequila and Huayacocotla.
Date: Aug 07, 2016
Category: World
Source: Google
Mexico's dominant PRI a contender even in struggling states
drug cartel was cleaning up its rivals. Days earlier, six people were killed in two nightclub shootings. Sixteen journalists have been slain in Veracruz during the six-year term of the widely reviled outgoing governor, Javier Duarte. Businesses regularly complain of extortion by drug cartels.