PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It’s been more than two months since 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez disappeared from a Bridgeton, New Jersey park. Despite every effort, investigators have found no sign of Dulce. Dulce’s mother recently sat down with Dr. Phil. Here’s a portion of the one-on-one interview. “What made you get out of the car and go?” Dr. Phil asked. “Because it was weird. We didn’t see them. They usually play and they don’t go out of sight,” Noema Alavez Perez said. A $52,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Dulce’s whereabouts. You can watch the full interview on Dr. Phil on Friday at 3 p.m. on CBS3. … [Read more...] about Mother Of Missing 5-Year-Old Dulce Maria Alavez Sits Down 1-On-1 With Dr. Phil
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In Mexico’s Cartel Country, a Murderer Who Kills Murderers Tells His Story
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico—The safe house sits on a side street in a barrio that looks out on the well-lit downtown of Guerrero’s state capital and the dark foothills beyond. A late-model pick-up truck is parked in the street, and the surrounding alleys are scrawled with graffiti. It’s just past sunset on a late summer evening and a woman is trudging up the hill with a basket of bread, calling out her wares. Otherwise the street is silent. Then the hit man steps from the shadows behind the parked truck and waves me on toward the safe house. We sit at a bare table in the kitchen on the second floor. The tabletop is scored and oil-stained, as if machinery or heavy weapons often are served there. In one corner sits a shrine with small statues of the saints, Holy Judas among them. A hand-carved jaguar mask hangs on the walls. I notice that the hit man has seated himself at the table in such a way that he can see out both of the room’s windows at once. The curtains are … [Read more...] about In Mexico’s Cartel Country, a Murderer Who Kills Murderers Tells His Story
Mexico’s Murderous Super-Cartel CJNG Is Winning the ‘Narco Game of Thrones’
VALLECITOS DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico—There is only one hotel still open in this cartel-besieged town, and I am the only guest in it. The former owner of the Sierra Inn here in western Mexico’s Guerrero state is a local businessman and political candidate who was run off the road and shot to death by sicarios [hitmen] two years back. He’d envisioned turning Vallecitos into a hot-spot for eco-tourism—the town is nestled in an idyllic, wooded valley in the Sierra Madre del Sur—and at the time he was killed he had several other development projects in the works. Now only this lonely hotel remains. It’s early fall and the rainy season is underway in these mountains. When the storms are too bad to go out, I wander the deserted halls, the silent dining room. I look at the empty pool, study paintings of the slain owner’s horses on the walls. All kept immaculate by the gerente, the caretaker, and his wife. The gerente went to school with the murdered owner … [Read more...] about Mexico’s Murderous Super-Cartel CJNG Is Winning the ‘Narco Game of Thrones’
Madam Speaker: No more delay on US-Mexico-Canada free trade deal
House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiTrump's legal team huddles with Senate Republicans On The Money: Falling impeachment support raises pressure for Dems on trade | Trump escalates fight over tech tax | Biden eyes minimum tax for corporations | Fed's top regulator under pressure over Dodd-Frank rules Overnight Health Care — Presented by Johnson & Johnson — Virginia moves to suspend Medicaid work rules | Powerful House panel sets 'Medicare for All' hearing | Hospitals sue over Trump price rule | FDA official grilled on vaping policy MORE is running out of excuses for delaying a vote on the United States Canada Mexico Trade Agreement. After more than a year of wrangling and debating, this bill would pass with bipartisan support, and Washington could hold a rare and joyous bill signing ceremony as a gift to the American people a few days before Christmas.The benefits of USMCA are well established and generally accepted by scholars on both sides of the political aisle. It … [Read more...] about Madam Speaker: No more delay on US-Mexico-Canada free trade deal
Trump Mulls Throwing Big Pharma Under the Bus to Save New NAFTA
Got to admit it’s getting better. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. government’s default template for a “free-trade agreement” has long resembled a grab bag of controversial giveaways to our nation’s most powerful corporate lobbies. And it isn’t hard to see why: Trade deals are long, complicated legal documents, the details of which are negotiated at a remove from democratic politics, and then (typically) presented to Congress as a referendum on the abstract concept of “free trade” and/or the sitting president. Which makes them nifty vessels for shelling out tribute to one’s favorite corporate benefactors with minimal scrutiny or debate. During the fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Barack Obama never gave a speech outlining a detailed case for why America should force poorer countries to award longer patent monopolies to pharmaceutical companies, thereby raising drug prices overseas and making them … [Read more...] about Trump Mulls Throwing Big Pharma Under the Bus to Save New NAFTA