Some Quick Takes on World Affairs
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Ebrard Denounces Chile’s, Brazil’s Claims to Haitians
By KELIN DILLON In a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 21, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard denounced the fact that Haitian migrants, who passed through Mexico on their way to the United States in hopes of gaining asylum, were deceived by the leaders of their former countries of residence, including Chile and Brazil, to encourage
Read moreUS Closes Del Rio Border Passage, Sends Haitians Home
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with a surging flood of undocumented migrants, mostly from Haiti, at the Del Rio, Texas, border, the U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 19, closed off the Mexican border in that city indefinitely and began flying some of the illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Yellow tape and government vehicles blocked the path of
Read moreTexas Judge Reinstates Trump’s Stay in Mexico Policy
By KELIN DILLON On Friday, Aug. 13, Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy, which requires those seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their court hearings. The 2019 law was previously given a memorandum by National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this past June, until Kacsmaryk
Read moreGuatemala Halts Northern March of 9,000 Hondurans
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 9,000 Hondurans refugees headed to the U.S. border were blocked by Guatemalan soldiers on Saturday, Jan. 16, not far from where they entered the country illegally. The migrants crossed into Guatemala in a caravan that had — in the course of just 24 hours, swelled from 3,000 to triple that size — in the hopes
Read moreMexican President Offers Wikileaks Founder Asylum
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, Jan. 4, offered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum. “I am in favor of Assange being pardoned,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace. “And not only that, I am going to ask the secretary of foreign relations (Marcelo Ebrard)
Read moreAMLO: Mexico Ready to Evacuate its Citizens from Bolivia
XINHUA … Mexico’s government is preparing to help its nationals leave Bolivia if they so wish…
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Read more5,000 Migrants Enter Mexico Legally
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a sharp contrast to previous migrant caravans, the latest group of Central American immigrants that entered into Mexico has done so in a legal and orderly manner. Between Saturday, Jan. 19, and Tuesday, Jan. 22, nearly 5,000 Hondurans, Guatemalan and Salvadorian migrants entered the country from Guatemala at Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, and formally
Read moreHonduran Exodus Makes Nations Tremble
By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday, Oct. 19. Pompeo is in a political tour visiting Panama and Mexico. apparently to discuss the volatile political and security situations both in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Yet surely Venezuela and Nicaragua can be ranked as priorities number two and three when confronted
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