Ever since the first cross-country railroad from Tapachula on the Guatemalan border to the Juárez at the U.S, border, developing the isthmus into a Panama-type of interoceanic link has been in the plans of numerous Mexican governments
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Some of the migrants were found traversing a highway, while others were seeking shelter in several houses in the area
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According to the Mexican federal government, over 2,000 migrants were kidnapped by smuggling gangs and drug cartels last year
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XINHUA A new caravan of about 500 migrants from Central and South American countries set off Monday, Aug. 22, from Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas with the aim of reaching the United States, local media reported. The caravan departed from Miguel Hidalgo Central Park in the city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala, where many migrants have been stranded
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XINHUA The massive caravan that began to pass through the Mexican state of Chiapas on Monday, June 6, with the aim of reaching the United States disbanded Saturday, June 11, after Mexican officials offered temporary visas to the migrants. The caravan, the largest so far this year, left the city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, with more than
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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
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, March 10, called members of the European Parliament (EP) “sheep” and “interventionists” after that body, the only directly elected entity within the European Union (EU), called on him earlier in the day to provide protection to journalists and to stop using the “populist rhetoric” that
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XINHUA A new U.S.-bound caravan of about 2,500 migrants, mostly from Central America and Haiti, departed Thursday, Nov. 18, from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala. After months of waiting in Tapachula for the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance to resolve their immigration procedures, the contingent set out once again for the U.S. border,
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XINHUA A migrant caravan traveling by foot through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border on Thursday, Nov. 4, overwhelmed a Mexican National Guard blockade trying to contain its advance and resumed its march toward Mexico City. The migrants and guard members clashed on the highway linking the towns of Pijijiapan and Tonala in the state of Chiapas, leaving at least
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XINHUA The Mexican government will deal prudently with the latest migrant caravan with thousands of Haitian and Central American migrants advancing toward the country’s capital and even the United States, Mexican Foreign Roegin Relations (SRE)Marcelo Ebrard said Monday, Oct. 25. “We will act … with prudence and respect for human rights,” Ebrard said at a press conference, adding that the
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