Ruffo Appel’s Company Triangulated Funds for More Than $3 Billion
Mexico’s Attorney General says Ingemar, the ex-Baja California governor’s company, moved 3.07 billion pesos through Intercam, tied to Texas fuel smuggling.
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Sheinbaum Supervises the Cargo Maya Train Before Traveling to the World Cup Final
The first 12 locomotives arrived in Puerto Morelos for the army-built Maya Train cargo line, which opens in January across five southeastern states.
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Mexico Refuses to Attend Marco Rubio Summit and Reaffirms Non-Intervention Policy
The ‘far-left political terrorism’ meeting was deemed political, not security cooperation; Washington has already been notified of the decision.
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US Returns Letter in Which Mexico Asks to Review ICE
The US returned Mexico’s letter over four Adelanto deaths, telling it to use ‘diplomatic channels’, even as 18 have died in ICE custody under Trump II.
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Sheinbaum to Attend World Cup Final; Trump Made the Invitation
Sheinbaum is expected to fly commercial to Sunday’s World Cup final in New York alongside Canada’s Mark Carney, returning to Mexico on Monday.
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PAN Ex-Governor of Baja California Ran the Largest Fiscal Fuel-Smuggling Network Brought In from the US, Says Mexico’s Attorney General
Ruffo Appel is among 25 facing warrants; the ring moved Texas fuel by rail, declaring 10% of each tank car and costing the treasury over 4 billion pesos.
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National Mobilization Called to Reject Water Agreement Between Chihuahua and Israel
Chihuahua’s right-wing PAN government signed the Israel water pact without registering it with Mexico’s federal foreign ministry; groups in 14 states march August 1 to cancel it.
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Mexico’s Attorney General Arrests Ernesto Ruffo, Former PAN Governor of BC, for Organized Crime and Fuel Smuggling
Baja California governor from 1989 to 1995 and Mexico’s first opposition governor, he was arrested in Ensenada for organized crime and fuel smuggling.
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Mexican Government Reports Progress in Atoyac Cleanup; Textile Discharges, Main Challenge: Sheinbaum
A year into a 20-billion-peso cleanup, authorities inspected 280 firms, fined 56 million pesos, and closed eight sites; dyeing runoff is hardest to curb.
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In 2025, 157,457 People Entered Penitentiary Centers in Mexico: INEGI
Admissions rose 19.2% over 2024; of 231,436 people held, 42.2% had no sentence, and Baja California led the country with 21,062 intakes.
