By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in California launched tear gas on a group of about 150 migrants who were trying to illegally force their way across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan. 1. CBP officials later stated that the tear gas was targeted
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly six hours after having been closed to all vehicle and foot traffic, the San Ysidro border crossing between Tijuana, Baja California, and San Diego, California, was reopened in the late afternoon on Sunday, Nov. 25. The border was closed by U.S. Customs authorities after a mob of roughly 500 mostly Central American migrants
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After about 500 mostly Central American migrants rushed the border near Tijuana, Baja California, in the late afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 24, U.S. authorities responded with a dispersal of tear gas the closing of the main point of entry into California, blocking off the major port of entry into San Ysidro, California, on Sunday afternoon
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the United States may have serious and justified concerns about a porous border with Mexico allowing illicit drugs and undocumented immigrants entering its territory unlawfully, Mexico is equally concerned about the illicit flow of firearms into its territory. According to Renato Sales Heredia, head of Mexico’s National Security Commission (CNS), at least 2,000 illegal firearms enter the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Tangy California cheeses and artisan Mexican beer were the culinary stars of Mexico’s first-ever Cheese Lovers Fest at the capital’s NH Reforma Hotel late last month. The festival, organized by the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), was intended to showcase the western U.S. state’s broad range of more than 250 types of cheese and to help open
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By BOB SCHULMAN (†) “Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California … and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.” So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise ruled by a black super-woman he called Queen
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