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Dognapping comes to Mexico

Gangs of dognappers have taken to exploiting Mexicans’ growing love for their pets.
Monica Pineda, the vice president of People for the Defense of Animals (GPDA), outlines three main methods that dognappers operate.

More Mexico bashing? No, some Trump bashing

As fallout from Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Mexicans rages across the continent, one entrepreneur in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, has come up with a novel way of allowing people to express their feelings about the real estate mogul and U.S. presidential candidate, and make some money to boot.

Avalos Ramirez is doing a brisk trade in hawking Trump piñatas, which he sells for around 40 dollars a pop.  He’s even thinking of taking them  across the border to McAllen, Texas to see how well they sell there.