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 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 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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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of a regional effort to stem Central American migration northward and reduce extreme poverty – one of the main incentives for illegal immigration – on Tuesday, Dec. 18, the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump pledged $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico, as well as $5.8 billion for
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