A series of tough new border policies have sharply reduced the number of migrants crossing into the United States to their lowest levels since President Biden took office, but the measures have created a combustible bottleneck along Mexico’s northern border, with tens of thousands of frustrated migrants languishing in overcrowded shelters from Tijuana to Reynosa. […]
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“I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly, because of the situation,” Burchett proceeded, not really clarifying what the “situation” was that is preventing lawmakers from taking action on gun control. “Like I said, I don’t think a criminal is going to stop from guns, you know, […]
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Al menos 39 personas murieron la noche del lunes y otras 29 resultaron gravemente heridas al desatarse un incendio en un centro de migración del gobierno en el norte de México, cerca de la frontera con Estados Unidos, informaron las autoridades. El incendio comenzó en la zona de alojamiento del Instituto Nacional de Migración en […]
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At least 39 people were killed on Monday night and 29 others injured when a fire broke out at a government-run migration facility in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, the authorities said. The fire broke out at the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juárez, a border city across from El Paso, […]
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The Mexican president wanted cherry trees. It was 1930, and President Pascual Ortiz Rubio had seen them lining the streets of Washington and desired the same beautiful spectacle for his country’s capital. To try to fulfill the leader’s request, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs tapped Tatsugoro Matsumoto, a Japanese immigrant who tended the gardens […]
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After returning home from his job at a car battery recycling plant in northern Mexico one evening in 2019, Azael Mateo González Ramírez said he felt dizzy, his bones ached and his throat was raspy. Then came stomach pain, he said, followed by bouts of diarrhea. The plant in Monterrey where he worked handled used […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter A letter sent to the president this week lays out the clear options the U.S. government has to exercise “diplomatic intervention” and work with officials in Mexico to help bring to justice the person or persons responsible for the mysterious death of a young Black woman on vacation across the […]
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The five men were left prostrate on the sidewalk outside their black pickup truck, their shirts pulled over their heads, bare torsos pressed against the ground, their bound hands spread before them almost in supplication. The handwritten letter on the truck’s windshield read like a formal, albeit chilling and remarkable apology: the Gulf Cartel Scorpion […]
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Los cuatro estadounidenses, Latavia Washington McGee, de 33 años, Shaeed Woodward, de 33, Zindell Brown, de 28 y Eric James Williams, de 38, fueron secuestrados el viernes pasado luego de que hombres armados dispararon a su auto en una intersección de Matamoros. Estaban en México para acompañar a McGee, quien planeaba realizarse una cirugía estética […]
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MEXICO CITY — Five men, lying face down with their hands tied, were found by the Mexican authorities on Thursday along with a letter purportedly written by a powerful criminal cartel, blaming the men for a recent attack on four Americans, according to two people familiar with the investigation. The note apologized for the assault, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Martin Pope / Getty Last Friday, a gunman attacked and kidnapped four Black Americans in Tamaulipas, Mexico. On Tuesday, two of the four group members were found dead. One day after that, Black people were reminded that we’re not actually allowed to be victims. On Wednesday, The Daily Mail published an […]
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MATAMOROS, Mexico — About 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Claudia said she was working in her office when she heard a staccato of sharp cracks — pop-pop-pop. She peeked outside to find heavily armed men shooting at a white minivan. She saw a body being dragged along the street and ducked to avoid windows. Claudia, who […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: PeopleImages / Getty If you’re thinking about traveling down to Mexico for spring break, the U.S. State Department has issued a warning for travelers to exercise “increased caution” due to a surge in crimes and the recent kidnapping of four Black Americans. According to the State Department’s most recent travel advisory, American […]
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The success in tamping down drug violence in Quintana Roo follows a similar improvement in Los Cabos a couple of years ago when U.S. authorities also collaborated with local officials in the state of Baja California Sur. The murder rate soared in Los Cabos in 2017 amid cartel wars, and although tourists were not targeted, […]
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Last week, four Americans were kidnapped in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, after crossing the border from Texas. Two were later found dead. A sister of one of the victims said they had gone to Mexico so one of them could get an abdominoplasty, better known as a tummy tuck. Every year, millions of Americans […]
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La frontera entre Estados Unidos y México es una de las más transitadas del mundo: los jóvenes mexicanos cruzan hacia el norte para ir de compras o asistir a escuelas privadas, y ciudadanos estadounidenses van hacia el sur para comprar medicamentos baratos o someterse a procedimientos médicos que son inasequibles en su país, desde citas […]
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Four Black Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico City have been identified by the Feds Friday. Videos of them being dragged and thrown into the back of a truck sparked an investigation and $50,000 reward from the FBI. According to officials from both countries, two of the victims were found alive and the other two […]
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Kidnapped Americans renew focus on Biden’s border strategy | The Hill Skip to content AP Photo/Andrew Harnik President Biden greets U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The kidnapping in Mexico this week of four U.S. citizens that left two of them dead […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Google Maps Last Friday, four Black Americans were attacked and kidnapped by a gunman in Mexico. On Tuesday, two of the four group members were found dead while the other two were found alive. “Two of them are dead, one person is injured and the other is alive,” Américo Villarreal, the […]
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s armed forces spied on a human rights defender and journalists who were investigating allegations that soldiers had gunned down innocent people, documents show, providing clear evidence of the military’s illegal use of surveillance tools against civilians. The government has been embroiled in scandal for years over the use of sophisticated spyware against […]
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The F.B.I. is searching for four Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico last week after they crossed into the country from Texas for medical help, according to officials in both countries. The four Americans drove into the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, from Brownsville, Texas, in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates on […]
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Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday. The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Twitter / Twitter The U.S. government appears to be showing considerably more urgency toward four American citizens kidnapped in Mexico than it has for the femicide investigation of Shanquella Robinson, also an American citizen who was killed in Mexico more than four months ago. Unverified graphic video footage and photos posted […]
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In Mayan culture, an aluxe is believed to be a mischievous elflike being that lives in the woods, a creature of folklore similar to leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster. So it was a surprise on Saturday when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico shared a picture on Twitter of what he […]
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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — Más de 100.000 personas salieron a las calles de México el domingo para protestar las leyes recién aprobadas que restringen al instituto electoral del país, en lo que los manifestantes dijeron era un repudio a los esfuerzos del presidente de debilitar a un pilar de la democracia. Vestidos en varios tonos […]
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More than 100,000 took to the streets of Mexico on Sunday to protest new laws hobbling the nation’s election agency, in what demonstrators said was a repudiation of the president’s efforts to weaken a pillar of democracy. Wearing shades of pink, the official color of the electoral watchdog that helped end one-party rule two decades […]
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Around the world, many countries rep a quintessential drink and pack into it their culture: Korean Soju, Japanese Sake, British Gin, French Wine, Caribbean Rum, and American Bourbon are just a few that come to mind. When venturing to Mexico, you’ll no doubt get a taste of a fine smoky spirit concocted from the native […]
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Los legisladores mexicanos modificaron el miércoles el sistema electoral del país, dando un golpe a la institución que supervisa las votaciones y que hace dos décadas ayudó a sacar al país de un régimen unipartidista. Los cambios, que reducirán el personal del organismo electoral, disminuirán su autonomía y limitarán su capacidad de descalificar a los […]
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Mexican lawmakers passed sweeping measures overhauling the nation’s electoral agency on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the institution that oversees voting and that helped push the country away from one-party rule two decades ago. The changes, which will cut the electoral agency’s staff, diminish its autonomy and limit its ability to punish politicians for breaking […]
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