By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a virtual meeting on the afternoon of Friday, May 7, to discuss immigration policies concerning the border between the United States and Mexico. Prior to the meeting, López Obrador ranted against the United States for giving money to nonprofits that were vocally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is set to visit Mexico next week to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 4, to discuss the current migration crisis. “Next Monday the president of Guatemala will arrive in Mexico,” AMLO announced during his daily press conference on Tuesday, April 27. “I have information
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XINHUA Hundreds of migrants who had been stranded in Honduras, including at least 500 Haitians, have set out on their way to the United States, local authorities said Saturday, April 24. “They already left. (The) Immigration (authorities) helped them,” Dinora Sandoval, deputy mayor of the Trojes community on the border with Nicaragua, said. More than a week ago, about 2,000
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Wednesday, April 21, that his government will strengthen surveillance actions on the country’s southern border in order to offer more protection to migrants, especially minors. During his regular morning press conference, the president explained that he had held a meeting with representatives of the southern states of Chiapas, Campeche and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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XINHUA U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 25, that he had picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country’s diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border. Biden made the announcement at the White House, saying of Harris that nobody “is better qualified to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. On Saturday, Jan. 23, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone. According to news reports, the Mexican president said that the United Stats has pledged $4 billion to Central America. in development investment programs. I guess that Biden is hoping that money going south will keep caravans from going
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Political Lockup No sooner had Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) backed down Friday, Jan. 22, on permitting states government and private businesses to purchase anti-covid vaccines, then the 10 governors belonging to the opposition group Federalist Alliance (AF) fired back, complaining that AMLO’s change of mind had come “too late.” “The authorization to join this
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XINHUA Hundreds of Hondurans, who were part of a migrant caravan headed north to the U.S. border, began returning home after the group met with resistance from authorities and fell apart in Guatemala, the Honduran government said on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The caravan disintegrated on Sunday, Jan. 17, when authorities in Vado Hondo, in the eastern Guatemalan region of Chiquimula,
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