XINHUA At least 55 people were killed and 104 others injured Thursday, Dec. 9, when a trailer truck packed with more than 150 migrants, mostly from Central America, overturned on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of Mexico’s southern state Chiapas, according to that state’s Civil Protection Agency. According to the agency’s director, Luis Manuel García, the accident occurred
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Three curious things happened during the first week of Mexico’s 64th Congress with the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) known for short as the Green Party. The Green Party, or whatever’s left of it, is now administered by former Senator and now-Deputy Carlos Puente, who during the introduction of the new parties last Sept. 1 at the
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