Bulgarian customs officers at Sofia Airport ¿seized 450 liters of liquid methamphetamine entering form Mexico, that National Customs Agency (NCA) said in a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The illicit drugs were found in 450 bottles placed in 30 cardboard boxes that arrived in Bulgaria on Thursday, Oct. 28 as a cargo shipment from Mexico, the NCA said. The recipient
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XINHUA Mexico will be forced to play their next two home World Cup soccer qualifiers behind closed doors because of homophonic chants from fans, FIFA said on Monday, Nov. 1. The world football’s governing body also fined the Mexican football federation 100,000 Swiss francs ($110,000) for several incidents during World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Honduras in September. The ruling
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XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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XINHUA The Mexican government will deal prudently with the latest migrant caravan with thousands of Haitian and Central American migrants advancing toward the country’s capital and even the United States, Mexican Foreign Roegin Relations (SRE)Marcelo Ebrard said Monday, Oct. 25. “We will act … with prudence and respect for human rights,” Ebrard said at a press conference, adding that the
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XINHUA At least one suspect was killed and two people injured in a shootout at the entrance to Terminal 2 of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez City International Airport (AICM) on Friday, Oct. 15, authorities said. “A few moments ago, there was a direct attack on two people at the AICM, two injured people are out of danger,” Mexico City’s Public
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XINHUA At least three migrants were burned to death and about 20 others were injured in a fiery road crash early Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Mexico’s gulf coast state of Veracruz, the National Immigration Institute (INM) said. Among the victims were Honduran, Haitian and Guatemalan migrants, the INM said. A truck carrying the migrants lost control, crashed into a retaining
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XINHUA CIUDAD ACUNA, Coahuila — After more than 2,000 Haitian nationals were sent back to the Caribbean country and around 8,000 returned to Mexico voluntarily, a growing number of migrants have chosen to stay at the Mexican side of the U.S-Mexico border for a transitory period. So far, more than 500 Haitians have settled temporarily in Ciudad Acuna in the
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XINHUA Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed in telephone conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 29, to promote closer bilateral Wang said that China “attaches high importance to developing relations with Mexico” and wants to take the opportunity of next year’s 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations to strengthen planning and boost
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XINHUA The surge of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the need for a continentwide legal framework to protect migrant rights, Mexican immigration experts said Monday. Sept. 27. At a seminar on the current Haitian migrant crisis, Alberto Hernandez, president of Mexico’s College of the Northern Border (Colef), which hosted the event, said designing and applying such a continentwide
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XINHUA Mexico, along with Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire, was awarded this year’s UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy on Monday, Sept. 27, in Qufu, home of the great Shang Dynasty philosopher in China’s Shandong Province. Mexico received the award for its “Building & Growing” public education program, while Egypt got the award for an online rural literacy project and Cote D’Ivoire
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