Maria Verza

January 20, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Advocates from both sides of the border plan to develop strategies to circumvent new restrictions and find ways to coordinate assistance for women who want to safely end their pregnancies, including getting abortion pills to women in the U.S.

By Maria Verza

6 minute read

September 06, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Mexico's foreign secretary said he believed its strategy of cracking down on illegal migration, investment in Central America and allowing the U.S. to make more asylum seekers wait in Mexico was enough to avert American tariffs on all Mexican imports.

By Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman

5 minute read

February 13, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The cartel still controls a worldwide web of contacts that can move Colombian cocaine to Cameroon and Mexican meth cooks to Malaysia.

By Maria Verza and Mark Stevenson

6 minute read

May 26, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Just as each batch of the weekly newspapers was dropped off at newsstands around Culiacan, men quickly bought them up as they followed the delivery trucks along their routes.

By Maria Verza

11 minute read

April 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

There is strong evidence that Mexican police tortured some of the key suspects arrested in the disappearance of 43 students, according to a report released Sunday by an outside group of experts.

By Mark Stevenson and Maria Verza, Associated Press

10 minute read

March 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A suspected drug cartel boss linked to a string of deadly weekend gun battles in a northern border city was arrested at a horse racetrack in the capital, Mexican officials said.

By Maria Verza and Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press

2 minute read

February 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Mariana Yanez's disappearance is a story shared by all too many in Mexico and nowhere more so than Ecatepec, where Pope Francis is to hold the largest public event of his visit to Mexico when he celebrates Mass on an outdoor esplanade here on Sunday just miles from that canal.

By Maria Verza, Associated Press

7 minute read

November 11, 2014 | Daily Business Review

An off-the-cuff comment by the attorney general to cut off a news conference about the apparent killing of 43 missing college students has been taken up by protesters as a rallying cry against Mexico's corruption and drug trade-fueled violence.

By Maria Verza

3 minute read