XINHUA Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border plunged 74.5 percent between May 2019 and January 2020, in the wake of a bilateral agreement to curb migrant flows, Mexico’s Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Feb. 12. In January, the number of migrants crossing the border amounted to 36,679, a vast reduction compared to May 2019, when 144,116 cases were
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Birthday, Carlos Slim Just as Mexico’s and Latin America’s wealthiest man, Carlos Slim, was gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) delivered a special gift that surely the tycoon did not appreciate: a fine for nearly 1.39 billion pesos. The fine applied directly to mismanagement of accounting
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Chasing the American Dream
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Zero Coronavirus Cases Regardless of the initial alarm in Mexico about potential coronavirus cases, on Thursday, Jan. 23, Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela emphatically denied “any confirmed cases” of the disease. There were, however, two confirmed reports of persons “under observation,” who were finally declared to be ill with “common colds.” One was a doctor in Reynosa,
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Here Come the Migrants!
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XINHUA Five men were sentenced to six and a half years in prison each for trafficking 785 undocumented migrants in cargo trucks, the Mexican Fiscal General’s Office said on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Two of the men were convicted of transporting 396 migrants and three of transporting 389 migrants, the office said in a press release. All five were arrested in
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XINHUA Honduras is preparing for the arrival this week of at least 1,900 nationals deported from Mexico for trying to enter illegally on their way to the United States, the Honduran Ambassador to Mexico Alden Rivera said Tuesday, Jan. 21. Rivera said Mexican authorities said two groups of Hondurans attempted to sneak into southern Mexico from neighboring Guatemala at two
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Migrants Try to Barge into Mexico Throngs of Central American migrants Sunday, Jan. 19, continued to gather along the Guatemalan border on Sunday, Jan. 19, with the intent of moving through Mexico to the United States. On Saturday. Jan. 18, approximately 1,500 of the mostly Honduran migrants attempted to stage their first show of force
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Ruckus in Mexico, Silence in United States All hell has broken loose in the Mexican media in the past 48 hours over an nterview between former Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who fired from his post in April 2017 on charges of sexual assault, and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has, at times, also
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