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2025-05-13 Government Corruption
Top Mexican politician is stunned to discover Trump has REVOKED visas for her and her husband
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A second international politician has been notified that President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
's administration revoked her and her husband's tourist visas.

Marina del Pilar Avila, the governor of Mexico's Baja Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, state, announced on Sunday that she and her husband, Carlos Torres, had been informed of the United States' consular measure.

She did not provide any reason for the revocation in her X post, but Torres wrote on Facebook Saturday that it 'does not represent an accusation, investigation or formal incident by any authority, neither in Mexico nor in the United States.'
Tragic. But no doubt there is an unspoken reason, well known to all the parties involved. Something about narco gangs, perhaps?
Torres, who serves as the coordinator of special projects within the Baja California state administration and for the city of Tijuana, also claimed that the revocation is 'a measure that, as is with many people in similar contexts, responds to internal arrangements of the State Department.'

'Currently, the application of these administrative criteria has become increasingly common and like so many others, I am included in that universe,' Torres told his followers.

In fact, their visa revocation comes just weeks after Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed the Trump administration revoked his visa to attend meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

It also comes amid President Trump's war of words with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for her refusal to deal with narco mobs in her country.
Hmmm… a bunch of breadcrumbs, for those willing to follow them…
Trump had pressured Sheinbaum last month to allow US soldiers into her country to help fight the narco gangs that produce and smuggle fentanyl into the United States, but she declined the offer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-13 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [115 views ]  Top
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#1 The damning photo that led to governor having her visa revoked by Trump

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-12 16:02||   2025-05-12 16:02|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 I asked, Skidmark, and you found the exact answer:

A photograph with a prominent drug cartel figure may be behind the Trump administration's refusal to grant a top Mexican politician a visa to enter the United States.

The picture showed Baja California governor Marina del Pilar Ávila hugging Emmanuel 'El Botas' Serrano while she was campaigning for mayor of the border town of Mexicali in 2019.

Serrano allegedly reports directly to Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, who leads half of the infamously brutal Sinaloa Cartel.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-13 03:15||   2025-05-13 03:15|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 I live to serve.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-13 09:34||   2025-05-13 09:34|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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