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by Alfredo ESTRELLA Agence France Presse EL ROSARIO, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico braced for the worst Monday as Hurricane Willa — upgraded to a maximum Category 5 storm — bore down on the Pacific coast, where it is expected to produce life-threatening wind and flooding. The powerful hurricane was on course to slam into Mexico somewhere around the resort town of Mazatlan on Tuesday afternoon or evening, the US National Hurricane Center, calling the storm […]
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Hurricane Willa surged to a dangerous Category Four storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast, US forecasters said Sunday, warning of a life-threatening storm surge and heavy winds and rainfall. The monster storm was 340 kilometers (210 miles) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, packing top sustained winds of 230 kilometers per hour. “Extremely dangerous… Hurricane Willa continues to rapidly strengthen (and is) forecast to produce life-threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall over portions […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “full efforts” were under way to halt the progress of thousands of Honduran migrants toward the United States. “Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther(n) Border,” Trump tweeted. “People have to apply for asylum in Mexico first, and if they fail to do that, the US will turn them away. The courts are asking the […]
BRISAS BARRA DE SUCHIATE, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico deployed hundreds of riot police Thursday to its border with Guatemala as a caravan of Central American migrants prepared to cross on their way to the United States, defying President Donald Trump’s threats. Hundreds of federal police in riot gear fanned out on the international bridge in Suchiate, on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, as the caravan of several thousand Honduran migrants trekked toward the crossing. Guatemala also sent […]
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Hurricane Rosa strengthened Thursday to a Category 4 storm off northern Mexico’s Pacific coast, though it was expected to weaken again before making landfall, the US National Hurricane Center said. “Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour, with higher gusts,” it said in its 0300 GMT bulletin. Forecasters expect the strength could start weakening slowly Saturday into next week. Rosa is currently located 975 kilometers […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Gunmen dressed as mariachi musicians killed three people and wounded seven others in a square in downtown Mexico City popular with foreign tourists, police said. The three assailants carried out the shootings shortly before 10pm on Friday (0300 GMT Saturday) in the busy Plaza Garibaldi, police said. Neither the motive for the attack nor the identities of the gunmen were known, but the area is located near the Tepito neighborhood, […]
by Ignacio Carvajal Agence France Presse COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican authorities discovered at least 166 bodies at a mass grave site in Veracruz state, prosecutors said Thursday, the latest horrifying find in a region hit by bloody drug cartel turf wars. Home to the city of Veracruz, one of Mexico’s largest ports, the eastern state has a history of corrupt politics and grisly power struggles between rival cartels — a toxic mix that has […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — More than 300 sea turtles from an endangered species were found dead on a beach in southern Mexico, trapped in a banned type of fishing net, environmental authorities said. In Mexico’s second mass turtle death in as many weeks, the Pacific Ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) were found floating just off the beach of Puerto Escondido in the state of Oaxaca, their shells forming a bleak mini-island. “They had drowned at […]
by H eather SCOTT Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Canada and the United States appeared to be moving closer to a new regional free trade pact, as US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday touted the progress being made. As the crucial phase of talks continued in Washington to try to bridge the differences on a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the optimism […]
by Heather Scott Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — As Washington and Ottawa resumed trade talks Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would only sign a new trade pact that was good for his country. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was upbeat in Washington after meeting US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, saying that “detailed” discussions to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-nation deal would begin the following […]
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Monday for a three-way trade deal with the United States and Canada, saying a two-way agreement reached with the US was just a first step. “It’s important that Canada also be included,” said the leftist president-elect after the US and Mexico announced a bilateral deal to update the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “We’re very interested in it remaining a three-country […]
by Heather Scott Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Negotiations between the United States and Mexico to revise the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade agreement are making progress but will not be concluded this week, Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said Thursday. But a Chinese delegation, in Washington for talks aimed at defusing the spiraling US trade war with Beijing, left without any breakthrough. NAFTA and China have been two key targets of US President […]
