XINHUA Mexico welcomed 31 million international tourists in 2021, representing an increase of 28.1 percent compared to the comparable number for 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the Tourism Secretariat. In a statement on Friday, Dec. 31, Mexican Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco said that the country’s tourism sector is undergoing a “strong recovery,” after noting that 24.2 million international travelers
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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 At least 19 people were killed and more than two dozen others injured on Friday, Nov. 26, after their bus crashed into a house in the town of Joquicingo in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local officials said. The brakes on the bus, which was heading to a religious shrine in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx)
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XINHUA A U.S.-bound migrant caravan that has been traveling on foot through Mexico for more than a month continued its slow trek over the weekend through the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, with far fewer people than it started out with. Comprising between 4,000 to 5,000 mostly Central American and Haitian migrants at one point, by Friday, Nov. 26, it
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XINHUA Researchers specializing in sea resources at Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute have recently launched a project to restore fish biodiversity in the country’s Caribbean coral reefs. Jesús Ernesto Arias González, a researcher at the center, said:, “We realize this (restoration project) by using various techniques. One way is catching fish before they
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XINHUA A new U.S.-bound caravan of about 2,500 migrants, mostly from Central America and Haiti, departed Thursday, Nov. 18, from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala. After months of waiting in Tapachula for the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance to resolve their immigration procedures, the contingent set out once again for the U.S. border,
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XINHUA An explosion caused by accumulation of LP gas inside a home in Mexico City killed one person and injured at least 12 others on Saturday, Nov. 13, authorities said. Additionally, another 28 families were left homeless by the blast. The explosion occurred at about 9:40 a.m. local time in the Pensil Norte neighborhood of the Miguel Hidalgo Precinct, said
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XINHUA A migrant caravan making its way through southern Mexico for the past 17 days resumed its journey on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the state of Oaxaca, deciding to forgo Mexico City and head straight to the United States border. Irineo Mujica, director of the immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) and a leader of the caravan,
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At least 19 people were killed and three others were injured when multiple vehicles crashed on a highway near the municipality of Chalco in central Mexico, authorities reported on Saturday, Nov. 6. The accident occurred at midday when a fuel truck suffered from a brake malfunction, crossed into the opposite lane and crashed into six other vehicles at a toll
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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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