By MARK LORENZANA Pope Francis on Wednesday, June 22, condemned the murders of two Jesuit priests in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, who were gunned down on Monday, June 20, along with a local tour guide inside a church in the municipality of Urique. “So many killings in Mexico,” Francis said at the end of his general audience, attended
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By KELIN DILLON According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, more than 100,000 persons have been reported missing and left unfound since the organization started keeping records in the 1960s, with most of the disappearances concentrated in states known for a strong presence of organized crime, like Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, as well as highly-populated regions like
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico at Odds with Bolivia Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Mexico are heading toward higher tensions as La Paz demands that Mexico deliver four out of nine people who have sought and been granted asylum in the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announces in early morning of Thursday, Dec. 26, that he would
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The past six months have been hectic for Mexico and its Congress as they worked to approve several constitutional amendments that will help ease the nation’s transition into what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls the Fourth Transformation, now popularly mentioned as 4T. Apparently – and this is an educated guess only – AMLO has plans
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