By MARK LORENZANA In a span of seven months, between October 2021 and May 2022, the arrests of Mexican migrants trying to cross into the United States soared 35.2 percent. There had been 560,579 arrests in that period, compared to 414,345 arrests from October 2020 to May 2021, according to U.S. government figures. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
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XINHUA The massive caravan that began to pass through the Mexican state of Chiapas on Monday, June 6, with the aim of reaching the United States disbanded Saturday, June 11, after Mexican officials offered temporary visas to the migrants. The caravan, the largest so far this year, left the city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, with more than
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Every day he is asked the same question, and every day he continues to hem and haw. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) just can’t seem to make up his mind whether to attend next week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. An old adage says that you can only stretch a rubber
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is back in the news now that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar announced last week a potential $500 billion investment in the new transoceanic project to link up Salina Cruz in the Pacific with the Coatzacoalcos port in the Gulf of Mexico. Hazy as Salazar’s financial plan may be for now,
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By KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) helped Guatemala in the exploration of the submerged Maya city in Lake Atitlán. The underwater site, which sank mysteriously into the lake hundreds of years ago, includes a complex of temples, plazas, houses and stelae, which had never before been seen by modern scientists. The joint
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XINHUA At least 55 people were killed and 104 others injured Thursday, Dec. 9, when a trailer truck packed with more than 150 migrants, mostly from Central America, overturned on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of Mexico’s southern state Chiapas, according to that state’s Civil Protection Agency. According to the agency’s director, Luis Manuel García, the accident occurred
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec. 8, that the country’s Public Function Secretariat (SFP) should investigate the accumulation of assets of the Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto, who in 25 months acquired four properties and a car worth at least 40 million
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Haitian government announced Friday, Nov. 19, that is will soon open a consulate office along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala to help manage the increased migration of its citizens in that area. The announcement comes after the number of undocumented Haitians crossing the U.S. border dropped in October and several new caravans of
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