By KELIN DILLON Two days after the bodies of 51 undocumented Latin American immigrants were found suffocated to death in a tractor-trailer truck outside of San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, June 27 – a discovery U.S. authorities characterized as the worst and most deadly migrant-smuggling incident in recent memory – immigration specialists have raised concerns about the alleged corruption that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Border Patrols officers temporarily detained 14 Mexican soldiers on Saturday, Sept. 25, for crossing into the United States over a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, without proper documentation. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that two Mexican military vehicles crossed the bridge that connects El Paso with
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday, June 16, that his state will build a border wall along the state’s boundary with Mexico. Speaking during a press conference in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, Abbott said he would discuss the plan in great detail next week, but said that his government has been
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Upon turning over the care of the country’s customs service to the military on July 17 in Manzanillo port, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finished his statement by saying that the times of “el que no transa, no avanza” (“he who does not double deal does not avance”) are over. The saying is a favorite
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Three-quarters of all recent South Korean investment in Mexico has been in states that border the United States, according to a recent study conducted by the Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey) in cooperation with the Korean Embassy here. “More than 80 percent of all accumulated Korean investment in Mexico — which now amounts to
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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