XINHUA U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 25, that he had picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country’s diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border. Biden made the announcement at the White House, saying of Harris that nobody “is better qualified to
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XINHUA A police convoy was ambushed Thursday afternoon in Coatepec Harinas, a town in central State of Mexico (Edoméx)¿, killing 13 officers, according to local government reports. According to the state’s Security Secretary Rodrigo Martinez-Celis, members of the local police and the prosecutor’s office were ambushed while patrolling. Eight police officers and five prosecutors were killed in the attack, the
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XINHUA The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Tuesday, March 16, that the number of immigrants attempting to enter the United States through its southern border is expected to reach the highest level in two decades. The statement came amid a recent surge in unaccompanied migrant children making the trip with the aim of reuniting with
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XINHUA A global shortage of a semiconductor chips that has plagued automakers and put the brakes on North American vehicle rollouts since late 2020, could end by mid-year, but will still cause a drop in automotive production, the president of Mexico’s National Auto Parts Industry (INA) Oscar Albin said Monday, March 8. During a virtual press conference, Albin said the
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XINHUA Mexico could return to “economic normality” by the end of June, with employment at the levels registered before the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Friday, March 5. Before the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the number of workers registered with the Mexican Social Security
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XINHUA The soccer match between Mexican giants Guadalajara and Ámerica later this month will be played with the presence of fans, a year after most sports venues in Mexico were shut to the public because of the covid-19 pandemic. The Liga MX announced Friday, March 5, that the state government of Jalisco had given permission for Guadalajara to partially open
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XINHUA The traffic collision that killed 13 people in California near the border with Mexico on Tuesday, March 2, is now under human smuggling investigation by U.S. federal agency, local media reported Wednesday, March, 3. The burgundy Ford Expedition crossed the U.S. border with Mexico by driving through a hole cut into the border fence early Tuesday, March 2, local
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XINHUA Mexico’s economy is facing a “fragile and hesitant” recovery amid signs of weakness in the manufacturing and service sectors, the Mexican Institute of Financial Executives (IMEF) said on Monday, March 1. In its monthly economic analysis, the IMEF noted that its manufacturing indicator declined 0.3 points in February to 49.1 units, staying in the contraction zone for 21 consecutive
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XINHUA At least six soldiers were killed when a Mexican Air Force plane crashed on Sunday, Feb. 21, in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata, Veracruz, the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) reported. Sedena said in a brief statement that a LearJet 45 with the registration number 3912 crashed after taking off Sunday morning from El Lencero Airport. “The Secretariat’s Air Accidents
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XINHUA The Mexican film “Ya No Estoy Aquí” (“I’m No Longer Here”) has been shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 93rd Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, the academy announced Wednesday, Feb. 10. Director Fernando Frías’ feature film will represent Mexico in the 2020 Academy Awards competition for best international film for 2020.
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