XINHUA Late game goals from Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie provided the United States an unexpected 2-0 victory over Mexico in Cincinnati on Friday, Nov. 12, allowing the team to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Mexico had begun the match brightly, with the United States’ Zack Steffen blocking several potential goals from its opponents. But the U.S. team
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XINHUA A migrant caravan making its way through southern Mexico for the past 17 days resumed its journey on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the state of Oaxaca, deciding to forgo Mexico City and head straight to the United States border. Irineo Mujica, director of the immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) and a leader of the caravan,
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At least 19 people were killed and three others were injured when multiple vehicles crashed on a highway near the municipality of Chalco in central Mexico, authorities reported on Saturday, Nov. 6. The accident occurred at midday when a fuel truck suffered from a brake malfunction, crossed into the opposite lane and crashed into six other vehicles at a toll
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XINHUA A migrant caravan traveling by foot through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border on Thursday, Nov. 4, overwhelmed a Mexican National Guard blockade trying to contain its advance and resumed its march toward Mexico City. The migrants and guard members clashed on the highway linking the towns of Pijijiapan and Tonala in the state of Chiapas, leaving at least
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Bulgarian customs officers at Sofia Airport ¿seized 450 liters of liquid methamphetamine entering form Mexico, that National Customs Agency (NCA) said in a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The illicit drugs were found in 450 bottles placed in 30 cardboard boxes that arrived in Bulgaria on Thursday, Oct. 28 as a cargo shipment from Mexico, the NCA said. The recipient
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XINHUA Mexico will be forced to play their next two home World Cup soccer qualifiers behind closed doors because of homophonic chants from fans, FIFA said on Monday, Nov. 1. The world football’s governing body also fined the Mexican football federation 100,000 Swiss francs ($110,000) for several incidents during World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Honduras in September. The ruling
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XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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XINHUA The Mexican government will deal prudently with the latest migrant caravan with thousands of Haitian and Central American migrants advancing toward the country’s capital and even the United States, Mexican Foreign Roegin Relations (SRE)Marcelo Ebrard said Monday, Oct. 25. “We will act … with prudence and respect for human rights,” Ebrard said at a press conference, adding that the
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XINHUA At least one suspect was killed and two people injured in a shootout at the entrance to Terminal 2 of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez City International Airport (AICM) on Friday, Oct. 15, authorities said. “A few moments ago, there was a direct attack on two people at the AICM, two injured people are out of danger,” Mexico City’s Public
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XINHUA At least three migrants were burned to death and about 20 others were injured in a fiery road crash early Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Mexico’s gulf coast state of Veracruz, the National Immigration Institute (INM) said. Among the victims were Honduran, Haitian and Guatemalan migrants, the INM said. A truck carrying the migrants lost control, crashed into a retaining
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