Mark Stevenson

February 11, 2022 | Daily Business Review

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that the U.S. wants "to ensure Mexico lives up to its USMCA environment commitments."

By Mark Stevenson

5 minute read

May 23, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Costing $15 to $25, the "dummies" are sophisticated fakes: They have a startup screen and bodies that are dead ringers for the originals, and inside there is a piece of metal to give the phone the heft of the real article.

By Mark Stevenson

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

December 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A state government in southern Mexico found itself playing middleman in negotiations involving a gang of drug traffickers who already released a kidnap victim and a band of armed, angry citizens who briefly held a crime boss' mother seeking to take back control of their lawless, opium-country town.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

7 minute read

December 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In one of the stranger chapters of Mexico's drug war, angry people in a southern town kidnapped the mother of a gang leader to demand the release of their loved ones.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

8 minute read

December 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Ten years after Mexico declared a war on drugs, the offensive has left some major drug cartels splintered and many old-line kingpins such as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in jail, but done little to reduce crime or violence in the nation's roughest regions.

By Alfredo Pena and Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

11 minute read

November 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Mexico is starting to seriously contemplate the possibility that millions of its migrants could be deported, and the picture is not pretty.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

9 minute read

August 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Americans' love for avocados and rising prices for the highly exportable fruit are fueling the deforestation of central Mexico's pine forests as farmers rapidly expand their orchards to feed demand.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

7 minute read

July 25, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero denied in a recent interview that he is getting back into the drug trade or trying to muscle in on the Sinaloa cartel's operations.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

8 minute read

July 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Ronald James Wooden flexes the large blacksmith's hands with which he once forged everything from large chandeliers to intricate jewelry. He's says he is still regaining feeling in them three years after a four-hour beating with fists and rifle butts by municipal police in southern Mexico.

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

10 minute read