XINHUA A Mexican federal judge sentenced two men to nine and 12 years in prison, respectively, for transporting 118 undocumented Central American migrants via cargo truck through southeastern Mexico, the federal Fiscal General’s Office said on Saturday, Dec. 5. According to the Mexican prosecutor’s office, the judge, based in the state of Chiapas, ruled that the two individuals were guilty
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA Mexico’s Navy seized 2.9 tons of cocaine after intercepting a boat off the country’s southeast Caribbean coast, the Naval Secretariat said on Wednesday. Sept. 2. Naval infantrymen also detained three suspects during the operation late Tuesday some 85 nautical miles east of Mahahual, a resort town in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo , near the border with Belize.
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XINHUA Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border plunged 74.5 percent between May 2019 and January 2020, in the wake of a bilateral agreement to curb migrant flows, Mexico’s Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Feb. 12. In January, the number of migrants crossing the border amounted to 36,679, a vast reduction compared to May 2019, when 144,116 cases were
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XINHUA Five men were sentenced to six and a half years in prison each for trafficking 785 undocumented migrants in cargo trucks, the Mexican Fiscal General’s Office said on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Two of the men were convicted of transporting 396 migrants and three of transporting 389 migrants, the office said in a press release. All five were arrested in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Migrants Try to Barge into Mexico Throngs of Central American migrants Sunday, Jan. 19, continued to gather along the Guatemalan border on Sunday, Jan. 19, with the intent of moving through Mexico to the United States. On Saturday. Jan. 18, approximately 1,500 of the mostly Honduran migrants attempted to stage their first show of force
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There is no custom in Mexico of having one publication declare a worthwhile personality “the man” (now “person”) of the year like there is in the United States, where Time magazine has been doing for nearly 100 years. But recently, several Mexican journalists have speculated that if there were such a notion in Mexico, who would be
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL The Panama Canal — which transverses two oceans through the deep tropical jungles of Central America — is one of the world’s most incredible feats of modern engineering, and the only way to truly appreciate its grandeur is on a cruise ship. The Panama Canal system is considered to be one of the manmade wonders of
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