Mexico

Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers

Jan 08, 2021 07:01

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles

Jan 03, 2021 07:04

Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.
Biden, Mexico's president vow to cooperate on immigration

Dec 20, 2020 08:54

US President-elect Joe Biden and Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have pledged to work on the issue of migration and its root causes in Central America and southern Mexico.
New envoys meet with Iranian FM in Tehran

Dec 07, 2020 05:27

A number of new foreign ambassadors met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran at the outset of their mission.
US drops drug case against ex-Mexican defense minister, allows inquiry at home

Nov 18, 2020 07:13

The United States has decided to drop drug trafficking charges against a Mexican ex-defense minister in US custody, allowing his prosecution in his home country, due to “sensitive” foreign policy considerations.
59 bodies found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guanajuato

Oct 29, 2020 06:15

The remains of 59 bodies have been discovered in clandestine graves in a region of central Mexico that has suffered some of the highest levels of drug violence in recent years, national authorities said on Wednesday.
Thousands rally in Mexico City, calling for president to step down

Oct 04, 2020 08:56

Mexicans have gathered in Mexico City in what organizers say was the biggest demonstration against President Andres Manuel Lopez since he took office, almost two years ago.
Mexicans demand end to 'stealing' of their water under sharing treaty with US

Sep 21, 2020 05:46

Local people in the drought-hit state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, who are angered at a water sharing pact with the United States, have staged a protest to call for an end to the agreement, which they deem as the stealing of their water sources.
US, India record highest daily deaths, cases from coronavirus

Aug 07, 2020 06:58

As the new coronavirus pandemic rages on to take a heavy toll across the globe, the United States and India have registered their record daily jump in deaths and infections respectively over the past months.
Mexico nabs ‘El Marro,’ fuel theft king blamed for surge in drug violence

Aug 03, 2020 04:16

Mexican security forces on Sunday captured Jose Antonio Yepez, a notorious drug gang leader and fuel thief blamed for fanning a sharp surge in violence that has severely tested the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.