Mexico

Trump administration taking $3.8 billion more from military for Mexico border wall

Feb 14, 2020 04:19

The US Defense Department sent Congress a request to shift nearly $4 billion from the military budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico, a central promise of President Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House four years ago and bid this year for a second term.
Migrants raped and trafficked as US and Mexico tighten borders: Charity

Feb 12, 2020 10:31

Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
Native American burial sites being destroyed for Trump border wall

Feb 11, 2020 09:08

A sacred Native American burial site in the US state of Arizona has been destroyed by a construction company building President Donald Trump's controversial wall on the US-Mexico border.
Mexico deports hundreds of migrants to Honduras

Jan 30, 2020 08:15

Mexico's government has returned hundreds of Hondurans back to their country after it largely halted a caravan of undocumented Central Americans migrants who waded across a river into Mexico.
Mexico deports 2,300 US-bound Honduran refugees

Jan 28, 2020 08:12

Mexican migration authorities say they have deported 2,300 Honduran refugees who crossed over from Guatemala with a caravan heading to the United States.
With passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress boosts fossil fuel polluters in Mexico

Jan 24, 2020 10:09

"The passage of NAFTA 2.0 is very concerning for all the efforts to confront the climate crisis and save the planet", says Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the coordinator of the Network for Justice in Global Investment in an article titled: With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters in Mexico. This article has been published in the Truthout website.
Children go missing as US-bound refugees clash with Mexican forces

Jan 21, 2020 09:02

Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States.
HRW says ‘coup’ occurred in Bolivia

Jan 16, 2020 09:30

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the series of developments that led to the resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales constituted a coup, raising the alarm about human rights abuses by the country’s military at the time.
Mexico's prison security challenged as 16 inmates die in latest fight

Jan 01, 2020 13:30

Sixteen inmates were killed and five were wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country's troubled penal system since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took power.
Mexico says Bolivian regime harassing diplomatic personnel after granting of asylum to Morales

Dec 26, 2019 08:13

Mexico says the Bolivian regime is “harassing” and “intimidating” its diplomatic personnel in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, in what seems to be retribution for the granting of asylum by Mexico to former Bolivian president Evo Morales.