By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with a surging flood of undocumented migrants, mostly from Haiti, at the Del Rio, Texas, border, the U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 19, closed off the Mexican border in that city indefinitely and began flying some of the illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Yellow tape and government vehicles blocked the path of
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. President Joe Biden will nominate former Secretary of the Interior and Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as ambassador to Mexico, the White House announced Tuesday, June 15. Salazar’s nomination comes at a time when the Biden administration is struggling with a surging influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico board, as well as bilateral disagreements
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, June 9 — one day after his much-anticipated meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris — Mexican President Andrés Manel López Obrador (AMLO) bragged about how he and Harris had “forgone protocol” and had a friendly meeting. In this case, AMLO was half right: While Harris complied with the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Embassy ad interim Chargé d’Affaires in Mexico John S. Creamer announced Thursday, March 11, that the embassy is recruiting companies to join the Mexico business delegation to participate in the 2021 SelectUSA Investment Summit in June. The Investment Summit promotes the United States as the world’s premier investment destination and connects qualified foreign firms with U.S. economic
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named his country’s former ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, to oversee bilateral border relations with Mexico. The nomination of Jacobson by Biden, who is due to take office today, Jan. 20, was confirmed Monday, Jan. 18, by the incoming president’s chief adviser for Latin America, Juan Sebastián González. “I
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Red Alert for Three Kings’ Day There could be no more powerful image over the Christmas and New Year holidays than the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) doctors working out of covid-laden patient wards telling everyone, “We don’t want to see you here. Please, stay home.” Their pleas, however, fell on deaf ears. On Tuesday, Jan. 5,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) released on Monday, Dec. 21, the text of a “note of estrangement” in regards to the arrest and temporary detention of former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos. Here is a translation of part of that note: “The Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) — through the directorate of relations for North America — affectuously
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has tagged Public Education Secretary Esteban Moctezuma to serve as his new ambassador to Mexico, following the sudden resignation of Martha Bárecena from that post earlier this week. “I have decided that, in accordance with the framework of the change of government in the United States, to request
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