XINHUA At least three migrants were burned to death and about 20 others were injured in a fiery road crash early Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Mexico’s gulf coast state of Veracruz, the National Immigration Institute (INM) said. Among the victims were Honduran, Haitian and Guatemalan migrants, the INM said. A truck carrying the migrants lost control, crashed into a retaining
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
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XINHUA CIUDAD ACUNA, Coahuila — After more than 2,000 Haitian nationals were sent back to the Caribbean country and around 8,000 returned to Mexico voluntarily, a growing number of migrants have chosen to stay at the Mexican side of the U.S-Mexico border for a transitory period. So far, more than 500 Haitians have settled temporarily in Ciudad Acuna in the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF New reports have revealed that a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel has assumed partial control of the trafficking of migrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba into Mexico and up toward the United States, charging $22,000 per person moved from South and Central America up to the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged lieutenant, only
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 9, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a phone call with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Mexican Secretary of the Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard, to ensure a further supply of vaccinations against covid-19 from the United States to Mexico. “We are going to talk on Monday to give continuity to
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By KELIN DILLON While the United States has made it increasingly harder for foreigners, Mexicans included, to migrate legally to the country, Mexico in turn has experienced a massive influx in legal foreign residents. Between January and May of 2021, more than 28,631 permanent resident cards (TRP) were issued, almost 10,000 more than the same time frame in the year
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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 Mexico placed as the country with the second-highest rate of capital flight in February, according to a report released earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department. In total, $11.531 billion in government bonds and corporate securities left the country in February, the Treasury Department said. Only Brazil registered a higher rate of capital
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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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