By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS I have always been a squeamish eater, and frankly the idea of pork belly stewed in a broth of hominy and chili peppers topped with sliced radishes and lettuce never really appealed to me. So when my friend Enrique Castillo Pesado invited me to lunch at one of Mexico’s 20-plus Potzollcalli restaurants, my immediate response was, “Thanks,
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XINHUA A new U.S.-bound caravan of about 2,500 migrants, mostly from Central America and Haiti, departed Thursday, Nov. 18, from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala. After months of waiting in Tapachula for the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance to resolve their immigration procedures, the contingent set out once again for the U.S. border,
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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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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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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — At least five groups of armed civilians from different indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have come into being in a period of less than three months, according to state officials. These ragtag, self-proclaimed auto-defense forces in the state have claimed that their main objective is to protect their communities from organized
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Climate John Kerry in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday, Oct. 18, López Obrador was hoping that it was a sign that President Joe Biden was going to give the go-ahead for the United States to finance his ambitious Sembrando Vida
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By KELIN DILLON Because Mexico has lost some 662,000 hectares of primary forest and 4.2 million hectares of tree cover over the past 18 years, organizations like Greenpeace have revealed that more than 15 percent of the nation’s primary forest has been put at risk by illegal deforestation to create fields or pastures and illicit logging practices. “Illegal logging in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the creation of a government-run natural gas company last month to curb the surging price of LP gas, nationwide the price of this crucial fuel continues to rise. Nationally, the average cost of LP gas as of Friday, Oct. 1, was 25.65 pesos per kilogram, the highest level since federal price controls were
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few days into the recently initiated school year in Mexico, teachers ascribed to Section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) union in the central western state of Michoacan are alleging serious irregularities and debts in their members’ salary payments over the last month. According to the union group, the administration
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By KELIN DILLON On Sunday, Sept. 5, hundreds of migrants from Central American countries flowed into the Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, from the nearby Guatemalan border, with the aim of either waiting there on the status of their asylum applications or immediately proceeding further north to the United States. This is the fourth major caravan to enter from Tapachula
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