XINHUA CIUDAD ACUNA, Coahuila — After more than 2,000 Haitian nationals were sent back to the Caribbean country and around 8,000 returned to Mexico voluntarily, a growing number of migrants have chosen to stay at the Mexican side of the U.S-Mexico border for a transitory period. So far, more than 500 Haitians have settled temporarily in Ciudad Acuna in the
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XINHUA Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed in telephone conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 29, to promote closer bilateral Wang said that China “attaches high importance to developing relations with Mexico” and wants to take the opportunity of next year’s 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations to strengthen planning and boost
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XINHUA The surge of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the need for a continentwide legal framework to protect migrant rights, Mexican immigration experts said Monday. Sept. 27. At a seminar on the current Haitian migrant crisis, Alberto Hernandez, president of Mexico’s College of the Northern Border (Colef), which hosted the event, said designing and applying such a continentwide
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XINHUA Mexico, along with Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire, was awarded this year’s UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy on Monday, Sept. 27, in Qufu, home of the great Shang Dynasty philosopher in China’s Shandong Province. Mexico received the award for its “Building & Growing” public education program, while Egypt got the award for an online rural literacy project and Cote D’Ivoire
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XINHUA As of Monday, Sept. 27, Israel will lift its covid-19 travel ban for Mexico, the Israeli Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday, Sept. 20. Notwithstanding, the existing ban on Israelis flying to Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey will remain intact, the ministry said. Israeli citizens and permanent residents who want to travel to the three countries must
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XINHUA At least 16 people were killed on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, when a passenger bus and two trailer trucks collided on the Sonoyta-San Luis Rio Colorado highway in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the state’s Attorney General’s Office said. Another 22 people were injured, six seriously, the office said on Twitter. The National Guard reported that the
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XINHUA The Mexican government is participating in a humanitarian program to relocate Afghan refugees, said Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Wednesday, Aug. 25. “In keeping with Mexico’s tradition in favor of refuge,” the Latin American country “has decided to support requests of a humanitarian nature — refuge, asylum, humanitarian visa — for people in Afghanistan,” said Ebrard. Earlier
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XINHUA At least eight people are dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac García, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday, Aug. 21, Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour, leading to severe flooding in more
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XINHUA The Mexican government has filed a petition with the United States to open a period of consultation to resolve differences over automotive rules of origin that were established under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Economy Secretariat reported Sunday, Aug.22. The petition, which was formally filed on Aug. 20, gives both governments a period of 75 days to resolve the
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XINHUA Some 97 percent of the patients hospitalized in Mexico for covid-19 infections during the current third wave of the pandemic are unvaccinated, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday, Aug. 3. “The vaccine has a very, very important protective effect in reducing the most serious forms of the disease … where people need to be hospitalized,” the official
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