Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday offered an official apology to the Yaqui indigenous people for crimes committed by the state against their ancestors. “The Mexican state must never again allow marginalization, abuse or injustice against the Yaquis or any other ethnic or cultural group,” he said at a ceremony in the northern […]
By Lizbeth Diaz MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Many Haitians who are heading for the U.S. border as thousands of their compatriots were cleared out of a frontier camp are giving thought to finding work in Mexico if measures to curb entry to the United States stay tough. On Friday, the United States said a border […]
In recent days, more than 15,000 Haitians crossed into the US country from Mexico and found themselves stranded for days in Texas under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande river, blocked from moving onwards Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Migrant families sent back to Haiti by the United States after attempting to enter the country from Mexico […]
Murat Tapachula (Mexico) (AFP) – After weeks on the road, traversing mountains and jungles, risking assault and drowning, thousands of Haitian migrants hoping to reach the United States have instead found themselves stranded in Mexico. Many embarked on the journey encouraged by family and friends already living the American dream — but who often failed […]
By Alexandra Ulmer CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (Reuters) – Eddyson Langlais, 24, was huddled under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas, alongside thousands of fellow Haitian migrants on Friday night, when he saw news on Facebook that felt like a gut punch: The United States was going to fly Haitians back to their homeland. He […]
Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel’s presence as guest of honor in Mexico’s independence day celebrations Thursday showcases the challenges the U.S. faces in gaining regional support for its policy toward Cuba. Sitting next to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Díaz-Canel participated in a military parade marking the date Thursday and gave a speech in which […]
By Alexandra Ulmer CIUDAD ACUÑA, MEXICO (Reuters) – Ernesto, a 31-year-old Haitian migrant, waded knee-deep through the Rio Grande river that separates the United States and Mexico. He wasn’t heading to the United States, though. He was leaving a migrant encampment in Del Rio, Texas, on Thursday to slip back into Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña to […]
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico, in his vehicle as several dozen of demonstrators from the teachers’ union CNTE are surrounding the SUV in front of the main barracks of the armed forces in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. Daniel Diaz/dpa Demonstrating teachers did not let Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador […]
By Ted Hesson and Dave Graham WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates pressed President Joe Biden on Wednesday to take new steps to end an immigration policy begun by his predecessor Donald Trump after the top U.S. court ordered that the “remain in Mexico” program be reinstated. The policy put in place by […]
By Lawrence Hurley and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump, that forced thousands of asylum seekers to stay in Mexico awaiting U.S. hearings. The court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected the Biden administration’s […]
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Workers at a General Motors Co pickup-truck plant in central Mexico have voted to scrap their collective contract, opening the door for them to oust one of Mexico’s largest labor organizations as their union under a new trade deal. The vote, with safeguards agreed upon by Mexico and […]
By Dave Graham and Laura Gottesdiener MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico sued several gun makers in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supplied what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths. The lawsuit alleges that units of Smith & […]
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday shrugged off a video showing one of his younger brothers receiving cash from a political operator, saying it was part of a smear campaign by adversaries to discredit him. The video, the second within a year to feature a brother of […]
On Friday, an offshore oil pipeline connected to Pemex’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap offshore platform complex ruptured and caused a giant fire in the Gulf of Mexico, according to Bloomberg. “Pemex said the gas leak occurred at 5:15am local time in the submarine pipeline near Ku-Maloob-Zaap’s Ku-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound causing a fire 150 meters […]
Vice President Kamala Harris visited a border patrol facility near the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday and urged a focus on children and practical solutions to migration, in a trip meant to blunt Republican criticism of White House immigration policies. The visit – her first since becoming vice president five months ago – came amid a […]
U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least July 21, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said on Sunday. The 30-day extension came after Canada announced its own extension on Friday of the requirements that were set to expire on Monday and have been in place since March […]
For the second time in a month, the United States on Wednesday demanded Mexico look into a case of a company in the auto industry blocking worker efforts to unionize. US President Joe Biden ran for office as a champion of American workers, and pledged to take action to ensure they are protected from unfair […]
Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday urged would-be Guatemalan migrants not to come to the U.S. border illegally even as she expressed empathy for why they might make the difficult decision to flee their culture, their kin and the only home they have ever known. “I want to be clear […]
(Reuters) – Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is expected to plead guilty this week to federal charges of helping him run his cartel, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice declined […]
Parliamentary and regional elections in Mexico – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador leaves a polling station after casting his vote for Mexico’s general and regional elections. – -/El Universal via ZUMA Wire/dpa Never before have so many offices been at stake on an election day in Mexico: Citizens of the Latin American country will […]
US Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Guatemala and Mexico next week, bringing a message of hope to a region hammered by Covid-19 and which is the source of most of the undocumented migrants seeking entry in the US. Harris is taking her first trip abroad as President Joe Biden’s deputy with an eye towards […]
There’s a black man with a black cat Living in a black neighbourhood He’s got an interstate runnin’ through his front yard You know, he think, that he’s got it so good And there’s a woman in the kitchen cleanin’ up the evening slop And he looks at her and says: hey darling, I can […]
By David Shepardson and Frank Jack Daniel The U.S. government is preparing to downgrade Mexico’s aviation safety rating, a move that will bar Mexican carriers from adding new U.S. flights and limits airlines ability to carry out marketing agreements, four sources briefed on the matter said. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) planned move is expected […]
Eloina Feliciano begged her mother not to sell her into marriage aged 14 under an ancestral tradition in their indigenous community in southern Mexico, but her pleas were in vain. “I don’t want to be sold,” she remembers telling her mother at their home in the mountains of Guerrero state. “We’re not animals. Animals are […]
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management. But some current and former world leaders have made little effort to combat outbreaks in their country, whether by downplaying the pandemic’s severity, disregarding science or ignoring critical health interventions like social distancing and […]
US vice presidents always yearn for a chance to share the spotlight, but when Kamala Harris got put in charge of the Mexico border mess, she might have been forgiven for secretly wishing she could return to the shadows. Certainly the job is a high-profile opportunity to escape the notorious frustrations of being White House […]
Teresa Ruvalcaba lay on a bed in the emergency room of Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital, her right breast swollen to nearly twice the size of her left, the skin so thick and dimpled that the doctor examining her would note that it resembled an orange peel. Ojalá que sólo sea una infección, she thought, as […]
SAN DIEGO — A son of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Friday to being a leader in the global drug-trafficking empire. The plea from Ismael Zambada Imperial, known by the nickname “Mayito Gordo,” adds to the growing list of high-ranking figures to be convicted in the […]
Donald Trump spent the 2016 election repeatedly promising that he would build a majestic border wall — and Mexico would pay for it. Like so many things Trump has said, it was a lie. After being elected, Trump was unable to get Congress to provide the funding he had promised would come from Mexico, so […]
Ashanti says Flo Rida is her brother amid fresh dating rumors after he shared pics of them on a yacht. For years the rumor mill has consistently tried to put Flo Rida and Ashanti together as a couple. That’s mainly because the two have shared such a long and enduring friendship. The rumors died down […]