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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Mexico City

Newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, in Mexico City, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
June 5, 2024, 5:29 pm
Why Mexico’s center-right Jewish community didn’t vote for its first Jewish president
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who won the election this week, inherits a country split by her predecessor’s regime – with Jews sitting on the other side of the political divide
By Ariela Lopez
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City on September 6, 2023. (CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
September 7, 2023, 6:41 am
Mexico City’s Jewish ex-mayor wins ruling party’s nomination for presidential race
Claudia Sheinbaum, a confidant of popular incumbent president López Obrador, to face Xóchitl Gálvez from opposition, as Mexico appears poised to elect first female president
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former Head of Government of Mexico City and presidential pre-candidate for the Morena party, Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a rally at the Monumento a la Revolucion in Mexico City on August 26, 2023. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP)
September 7, 2023, 12:59 am
Jewish ex-mayor, senator with Indigenous roots in Mexico presidential race spotlight
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum seen as favorite to represent ruling Morena party in June 2024 vote; party’s candidate will face Xochitl Galvez from opposition coalition
By Samir TOUNSI
Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters during a rally in Guadalajara, Mexico, July 9, 2023. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images)
July 28, 2023, 9:05 am
Former Mexican president calls leading Jewish Mexican politician a ‘Bulgarian Jew’
Vicente Fox disparages political opponent Claudia Sheinbaum, a frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race, later apologizes to Jewish community
By Gabe Friedman
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a press conference in Mexico City on June 12, 2023. (Claudio Cruz/AFP)
June 13, 2023, 8:23 am
Mexico City’s Jewish mayor resigns to enter 2024 presidential race
Claudia Sheinbaum, who is close with incumbent leftist leader Lopez Obrador, says her aim is to be first woman in Mexican history ‘to lead the fates of the nation’
By AFP
Circles on a lawn at the Centro Deportivo Israelita, Mexico City's Jewish community center, drawn to guide social distancing. (Alan Grabinsky/ JTA)
October 24, 2020, 8:10 am
Mexico City’s Deportivo center united its Jews; now the pandemic isolates them
For 70 years, the massive community center has been the hub of Jewish life for a diverse group of 50,000, but fears of contagion in the hard-hit country have left it nearly empty
By Alan Grabinsky
A grave digger walks in the COVID-19 section of the cemetery of San Lorenzo Tezonco Iztapalapa on the outskirts of Mexico City, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
September 5, 2020, 10:09 am
Pandemic hits Mexico so hard that states run out of death certificates
Baja California, State of Mexico, Mexico City run short of documents with special characteristics to stop falsification; country has 4th-highest level of COVID-19 deaths in world
By AP
Screen capture from video of a woman in a blonde wig seen talking with two Israeli men who were gunned down moments later by suspected assassins in Mexico City, July 27, 2019. (YouTube)
September 7, 2019, 1:32 pm
Mexico makes arrest in killing of Israeli mobster, associate
Cops pick up 23-year-old man with a criminal record who was reportedly inside the Mexico City restaurant when Ben Suthi and Alon Azoulay were shot dead there in July
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of a woman in a blonde wig seen talking with two Israeli men who were gunned down moments later by suspected assassins in Mexico City, July 27, 2019. (YouTube)
July 31, 2019, 4:32 pm
Mexico looking for woman suspected of luring Israeli gangster into assassination
Authorities believe ‘La Guera’ invited Ben Suthi and his associate to Mexico City restaurant, where they were gunned down on behalf of drug cartel
By ToI Staff
Israeli crime boss Ben Suthi being extradited from Mexico to Israel in 2004. (Channel 13 screenshot)
July 30, 2019, 11:18 am
Mexico says it’s identified organization behind killing of Israeli crime boss
Prosecutor does not name the group blamed for death of Ben Suthi and his associate, gunned down in cafe last week, says officials working closely with Israeli authorities
By ToI Staff
Israeli crime boss Ben Suthi being extradited from Mexico to Israel in 2004. (Channel 13 screenshot)
July 27, 2019, 8:00 am
Israeli crime boss shot dead in Mexico was underworld ‘legend’
Ben Suthi had been in a decades long feud with one of Israel’s top criminal organizations at the time of his killing, which Mexican authorities believe was a ‘settling of scores’
By ToI Staff
Police arrive at an upscale shopping mall at the south of Mexico City, July 24, 2019, where a woman wearing a blond wig disguise killed two Israeli men (AP Photo)
July 26, 2019, 10:52 pm
Mexico says assassination of Israelis linked to money laundering, drug cartels
Hit on 2 Israelis connected to Israeli and Mexican criminal organizations, says top police official; Mexican media reports shooters may have worked for the notorious Jalisco cartel
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Security camera footage shows a woman who appears to be Esperanza Gutierrez Rojano holding a pistol before shooting Israelis Ben Suthi and Alon Azoulay in Mexico City on July 24, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)
July 26, 2019, 6:58 pm
Security footage shows female assassin killing Israeli crime bosses in Mexico
Main suspect in the murders of Ben Suthi and Alon Azoulay can be seen in the video dining with accomplice before gunning down two Israelis at close range
By ToI Staff
People hiding under tables during a shooting at a cafe in Mexico City, July 24, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)
July 25, 2019, 5:38 pm
Israeli shot dead by female assassin in Mexico was prominent underworld figure
Police said to suspect killing wasn’t a crime of passion, as the shooter claims, but a hit commissioned by Israeli mob bosses
By ToI Staff
People hiding under tables during a shooting at a cafe in Mexico City, July 24, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)
July 25, 2019, 9:42 am
2 Israelis gunned down in broad daylight in Mexico City cafe
Police chief says woman arrested in connection with deadly shooting at upscale shopping center, thought to be result of lovers’ spat
By ToI Staff
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