XINHUA A caravan of about 1,000 migrants, the seventh since August, left southeastern Mexico on Tuesday, Aug. 30l for the U.S. border, local media reported. The caravan mainly included men from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, as well as hundreds of women and approximately 150 children, said local news reports. If the group meets up with others
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Am I happy that Latin American nations are electing leftists? Of course not, but it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Down in Chile, leftist President Gabriel Boric, who came to power in March of this year, is already struggling in the polls. He is learning that changing a country’s constitution is
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By MARK LORENZANA Full disclosure: Although I’ve read a few of the major works of beloved Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “The Autumn of the Patriarch” and “Love in the Time of Cholera”), I have never read his short story collection “Strange Pilgrims.” So when the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City invited
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City police seized around 1.8 tons of cocaine on Tuesday, July 26, in what was considered to be the biggest drug bust in the Mexican capital so far. Authorities estimated that the seized cocaine, which was being smuggled in two freight trucks, has a street value of 400 million pesos, and could even reach twice that
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By MARK LORENZANA Several experts in the Mexican aviation industry on Tuesday, July 26, expressed concern for the continued deterioration of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), as another aviation analyst lamented the U.S. downgrade of Mexico’s air safety rating in 2021, which he believed does not bode well for the country’s airline industry in the long term. Aviation analyst
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OPINION By ALAN BERSIN Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Catalyzed by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, North America emerged as a reality before Robert Pastor articulated “The North American Idea” in his widely read book. While centered in Mexico, Canada and the United States, however, the North American region should ultimately reach
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report released by the Small Arms Survey, an organization based out of Geneva with a specialization in tracking violent deaths around the world, Mexico is the only nation in Latin America that’s regressed in its pursuit of peacefulness, growing from 10.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004 to more than triple that –
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XINHUA At least six police officers died early Sunday, June 26, during a shootout with armed individuals traveling in a convoy of about 10 armored trucks in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, the state’s Security Secretariat said. “Four more policemen were injured and are already receiving medical attention,” the secretariat said in a written statement. The attack occurred
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. A couple of nights ago, I got a taste of what politics in Colombia is all about these days. A 40-something Colombian lady in my class said she was worried about her country going to the left. Another young woman from Colombia had a smile on her face that reminded me of the Barack
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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