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 […]
Apprehensions of undocumented migrants on the US border with Mexico soared 70 percent in March to 172,331, hitting the highest level in 15 years, data showed Thursday, in a mounting challenge for the administration of President Joe Biden. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that the number of unaccompanied children they detained after crossing […]
US President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday expanded sanctions on a powerful Mexican drug cartel, stepping up pressure as its violent campaign prompts growing concern. The Treasury Department blocked any US assets and criminalized transactions with three people affiliated with Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which was suspected in the brazen assassination in December of […]
It will be the first time on a plane for most of the undocumented families that arrive daily at the McAllen, Texas airport, holding envelopes that read “Please help me, I don’t speak English.” The envelopes are not passports per se, but might as well be: Inside are the families’ boarding passes and negative Covid […]
I had twenty-one miles of road to go And fifty-four miles of dirt There was a cold steel gleam In the night I was trucking along Down interstate five Looking for the turn When something snapped And I suddenly changed my mind I said bye bye bye Oh, I finally took a stand Then for […]
Honduran migrant Fernando Sanchez paid a trafficker $7,000 to smuggle him to the United States with his three-year-old daughter, but they spent just days on US soil before being deported. For many undocumented migrants, particularly adult men, what they hoped would be an open door thanks to US President Joe Biden has turned out to […]
For the past five months, Valery Sanchez has shared a cramped two-bedroom apartment here with about a dozen gay and transgender migrants, waiting patiently but desperately for her asylum case to be heard across the border in Texas. From her bedroom window, the 19-year-old transgender woman can see the site of the makeshift migrant camp […]
[Intro] OG Parker [Chorus] Girl you know I love the way you walk (Walk) And it’s something bout the way you talk (Yeah) I can’t seem to get you off my mind (Off my mind) I be thinkin bout you all the time Take a look at my baby She drives me crazy Put you […]
The United States is preparing to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to help neighboring Mexico and Canada, the White House said Thursday. President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, confirmed said that 2.5 million doses were being lined up for Mexico and 1.5 million for Canada. A total of seven million […]
“The righteous shall dwell in the land forever The meek, the gentle the patient shall finally be the ones that inherit this troubled planet So learn to be patient and gentle” In California there’s a place I like to stay Where all the angels come to pray They all act shady like they got cocaine to move They think it […]
Thousands of minors without papers are arriving at the US border with Mexico, presenting President Joe Biden with a potentially major crisis in one of America’s most politically sensitive regions. Biden took office promising an immigration policy more humane than that of Donald Trump, but some migrant advocacy groups say the new Democratic president’s decisions […]
[Hook: Nosaj] Mexico or bust Mexico or bust Mexico or bust Mexico or bust [Verse 1: Nosaj] Mexico is calling me And damn if it ain’t all in me To pack my bags and grab a crate Ain’t nothing better than an unplanned escape Hell ain’t catching up to me, no way I’m taking back […]
Dream Doll is caught in the middle of Rich The Kid and Tori Brixx breakup. There seems to be trouble brewing between Tori Brixx and her fiancé Rich The Kid, following a series of social media posts hinting that the rapper was vacationing with Dream Doll. The drama started after both Rich the Kid, and […]