Mexico’s National Guard Shot at Political Candidates, Says Opposition Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed that a Mexican National Guard convoy shot at two female political candidates in Jalisco state. The incident occurred this week in Villa Purificación, a small town in the mountainous region of Jalisco, northwest of the popular beach area of Manzanillo. Mexico’s federal government has not released any information about […]
Undercover operation nets arrests as New Mexico’s top prosecutor blames Meta for online predators
New Mexico’s top prosecutor announced charges Wednesday against three men for allegedly using Meta’s social media platform to target and solicit underage children for sex. The arrests are the result of a months-long undercover investigation in which the suspects were linked to decoy accounts set up by the state Department of Justice. The investigation began […]
Chicken Sacrificed As ‘Offering to Rain God’ at Mexico’s Senate
A Mexican senator from the Morena party has drawn widespread condemnation for organizing the ritual killing of chickens as an “offering to the rain god.” The incident took place in one of the courtyards of the Mexican Federal Senate. The ceremony took place this week when Mexican Sen. Alfredo Gómez Hernandez had a group of […]
‘We Condemn The Events’: At Least 16 Mexican Politicians Killed In Four Months As Mexico’s Election Race Ramps Up
A mayoral candidate was stabbed to death in northern Mexico on Friday, making him at least the 16th Mexican politician to be killed ahead of national elections scheduled for June 2, The Associated Press reported. At the time of his untimely death, Noe Ramos Feletis was seeking re-election as mayor of Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, a […]
Joe Biden Praises Mexico’s Border Plan, Dangles Border Curbs as Latino Support Sags
President Joe Biden is dangling new border fencing, praising a border plan pushed by Mexico’s president as he seeks to restore support among alienated and disappointed Latino voters. In response to a question on the Spanish-language Univision television network, Biden was asked whether he intended to issue an executive order to curb the influx. avoided […]
Police find 7 bodies, 5 of them decapitated and 1 dismembered, in Mexico’s fifth largest city
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities discovered seven bodies Friday in abandoned cars stuck in traffic on a major highway, five of them decapitated and dead. One person was found completely dismembered, the statement said. Prosecutors in the central state of Puebla said messages were left on all the bodies […]
White House says it’s putting US first in face of Mexico’s migrant demands
The White House on Thursday emphasized that it has a “constructive” relationship with Mexico and puts U.S. interests first in policy decisions, after the Mexican president made a number of demands related to immigration policy. He emphasized that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has asked President Biden to lift sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela and […]
“Diplomatic blackmail” Mexico’s president U.S. border crisis
While the Biden administration has been unable to find a solution to the crisis at the southern border, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has offered one. The solution: the United States pledging $20 billion in aid to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lifting sanctions on Venezuela and the Cuban embargo, and […]
Mexico’s president says Trump won’t build border wall: ‘It doesn’t work’
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he does not believe former President Donald Trump will follow through on his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, citing the two countries’ economic ties. “Because we understood each other very well. We signed economic and commercial agreements that were win-win for both people, for […]
Speaker Johnson fires back at Mexico’s president, rips ‘widespread emigration out of his country’
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday criticized Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador and his recommendations to the United States on how to deal with the border crisis. Obrador said the U.S. will eliminate sanctions on Venezuela, end the embargo on Cuba, grant citizenship to undocumented immigrants from Mexico living in the U.S., and support […]