Authorities at Mexico City airport capture man believed to be top drug hit man
ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY – Federal police at the Mexican capital's airport Monday captured a suspected top hit man for one of the country's most-violent drug cartels, authorities said.

Jesus Lopez, was detained aboard a pre-dawn flight arriving at Benito Juarez International Airport from the western U.S.-Mexico border city of Mexicali, according to a statement released by the federal attorney general's office.

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Fox calls U.S. plans for wall 'shameful'
The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Vicente Fox stepped up his attacks on the U.S. plan to build a fence along its southern border yesterday, saying it was a "shameful" move for a democracy.

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Mexican official says U.S. plan for border wall 'stupid' and 'underhanded'

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's foreign secretary Monday levelled his country's sharpest criticism yet at a U.S. proposal for a fence along parts of its southern border, condemning it as "stupid" and "underhanded."

In a radio interview, Luis Ernesto Derbez said U.S. legislators who approved the bill are turning a blind eye to the contributions millions of migrants from Mexico and elsewhere make to the U.S. economy and culture. "It's a law that looks underhanded to everybody...stupid," Derbez said.