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Massive Migrant Caravan Heads North as Summit Nears End
PULSE NEWS MEXICO A caravan of several thousand Latin American migrants, including many from Venezuela, began slowly winding its way north on Monday, June 6, from Tapachula, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, in the hopes of reaching the U.S. border just as the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, concludes. According to some estimates, the
Read moreAMLO Won’t Go to Americas Summit (Surprise, Surprise!)
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
Read moreOn the Mark: Griner’s Ordeal Now for More than 100 Days Long
By MARK LORENZANA Brittney Griner, the superstar center who plays for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), has now been in Russian custody for more than 100 days. Griner also plays for Russian basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg in the WNBA offseason, and in Feb. 22 of this year was arrested upon her arrival in Moscow after
Read moreAMLO and the Summit, an (Almost) Never-Ending Story
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
Read moreThe Summit of the Americas and an Indecisive AMLO
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Just a week before it is set to start, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has yet to decide whether he will attend the June 6 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. Over this weekend, AMLO had several opportunities to make a statement as to whether he will attend, but instead kept repeating
Read moreGeopolitical Tensions, North American Opportunities
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexico’s Opposition Parties Hang Tight for Next Election
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
Read moreUS Judge Blocks Biden’s Lifting of Title 42
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days before the controversial Title 42 restriction imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump in March 2020 allowing Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to turn away migrants with the goal of preventing the spread of covid-19 was due to expire on Monday, May 23, a federal judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, late Friday,
Read moreUS Border Town Braces for More Migrants as Partisan Fights Rage on
XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
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