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In this March 6, 2020, file photo, Austin Mayor Steve Adler speaks during a press conference in Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Steve Adler, Austin mayor, told residents to ‘stay home’ while on vacation in Mexico

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In this March 6, 2020, file photo, Austin Mayor Steve Adler speaks during a press conference in Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Austin mayor went to Mexico while urging people to stay home

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the commemoration of his second anniversary in office, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president acknowledges end to killings far away

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Dressed in protective gear to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, military surgeon, Coronel Oscar Benavides Aguilar talks to a patient who is speaking to her daughter via a tablet, at a military hospital set up to take care of COVID-19 patients in Mexico City, Monday, November 30, 2020. As of last Friday, Mexico reported a record daily increase in the number of coronavirus cases, with Mexico City reporting the biggest portion of the surge in cases. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

WHO chief: Mexico in ‘bad shape’ with coronavirus pandemic

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Mexico’s president pledges justice for murdered Frenchman

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FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2009 file photo, Mexico's Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Genaro Garcia Luna speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City. Mexico's former public security secretary pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, to new drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District Court of New York. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexico charges ex-security chief who faces trial in US

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. López Obrador said Friday that his ambassador to the United States told him two weeks ago that there was an investigation underway there involving Mexico's former defense secretary, retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico extends northern border tax breaks to southern border

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Mexican president presents ‘ethical guide’ book of precepts

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Olimpia Coral Melo, who became an activist against online sexual harassment and assault after a video of her having sex was published online in 2013, speaks during a live broadcast with Benito Juarez borough Mayor Santiago Taboada, in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Melo's story and subsequent activism have led to the creation of numerous state laws against cyber violence, and Mexico's government is on the verge of passing a federal version of &quot;Olimpia's Law.&quot; (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico moves to stem unauthorized sharing of sexual images

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Mexico: ‘Mastermind’ of 2019 killings of US citizens nabbed

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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, pilgrims arrive at the plaza outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican Catholic Church announced on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 the cancelation of the annual pilgrimage, the largest Catholic pilgrimage worldwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Catholic Church cancels Guadalupe pilgrimage over pandemic

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Officials: 113 bodies found in secret graves in Mexico

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Several living history groups set tents up at Horse Head Crossing, a ford across the Pecos River, in Pecos County, West Texas, Oct. 30, 2020. A gathering of a few hundred people joined in the two-day celebration of the crossing. Comanche war parties returning from Mexico with stolen horses crossed here, as did immigrants and adventurers drawn by the California goldfields, as well as pioneering cattle drovers, including Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, pushing their leggy longhorns through to northern markets. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Historic river crossing in West Texas is filled with death

By JOHN MacCORMACK - Associated Press

Marijuana plants grow at a makeshift camp outside of the Senate building in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Mexican marijuana activists have been camping outside the Senate since February of this year, growing a crop of marijuana plants and smoking it as a way to pressure the government into legalizing recreational cannabis. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican church decries Senate’s marijuana legalization vote

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Doctors Delia Caudillo, left, and Monserrat Castaneda, put on protective gear as they prepare to conduct a COVID-19 test at a home in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so

By DIEGO DELGADO - Associated Press

Alleged Sinaloa Cartel member extradited to US from Italy

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Illegal border crossings rise for sixth straight month

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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, left, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, salute during the annual Independence Day military parade in Mexico City's main square. U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, formally dropped a drug trafficking and money laundering case against Gen. Cienfuegos, a decision that came after Mexico threatened to cut off cooperation with U.S. authorities unless the general was sent home. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexico says it wants its ex-officials tried in Mexico

By MARIA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Healthcare worker Marco Antonio Galicia wears a protective face mask designed with a Mexican wrestler motif, in a ward designated for COVID-19 patients, at the Ajusco Medio General Hospital in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico becomes 4th country to hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

By DIEGO DELGADO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2020, court artist sketch, former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda's appears in federal court in Los Angeles. The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering against former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (Bill Robles via AP, File)

US drops case against ex-Mexican general after pressure

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press