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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — Parents of Mexico’s 43 missing students announced on Monday (February 22) they would embark on a convoy from Mexico City to the northeastern Tamaulipas state to demand local police officers who were arrested in connection with the case remain in detention. The parents fear that the 22 policemen, who are currently being held in the Tamaulipas city of Matamoros, could file an appeal and potentially be released due to a […]
MEXICO (Reuters) — In the last 12 years, at least 23 journalists have disappeared in Mexico, the highest number in the world, according to a damning report from British journalism advocacy group, Article 19. The report titled “The Disappearance and Forced Disappearance of those Exercising Freedom of Expression in Mexico”, was presented to media in the country’s capital on Tuesday (February 09) just hours after the abduction of crime-beat reporter Anabel Flores in the violence-ravaged […]
(Reuters) — Mexico’s infection rate of the Zika has topped 30 as the Latin American country steps up preventative measures against an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus amidst fears it will spread across the region. Zika has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, leading health authorities in Colombia and El Salvador to advise women against getting pregnant for anywhere up to two years. Last week, Mexico reported 18 cases […]
There is currently “no justification” for asking Mexican women to postpone getting pregnant because of an outbreak of the mosquito-born virus Zika, a senior Mexican Health Ministry official said during an interview with Reuters on Tuesday (January 26). Zika, which has spread across the Americas, has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, leading health authorities in Colombia and El Salvador to advise women against getting pregnant for anywhere up to […]
According to the United States Geological Survey, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the western coast of Mexico. There is no recorded damage in the aftermath of said earthquake. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Mexico and Central American countries approved a plan on Wednesday (January 20) for more flights that would allow thousands of Cubans stranded in Costa Rica to continue on to the United States. Regional governments meeting in Guatemala earlier this week deemed as a “success” the first pilot trip last week, when 180 Cubans flew to El Salvador, took a bus to Mexico and received transit visas to go to the U.S. border. Costa Rica’s Deputy […]
A small group of Cuban migrants crossed into the United States on Sunday (January 17) after a month’s long journey through Central America and Mexico finally came to an end. The migrants arrived to the border city of Reynosa in northeastern Mexico near the border with Hidalgo, Texas. One of the migrants, Byron Rojas Arevalo, who arrived to Reynosa by plane, said a long and harrowing journey, which started in Ecuador, was finally coming to […]
Cuban migrants continued their journey through Mexico toward the United States on Thursday (January 14), flying northward from the southernmost state of Chiapas. The migrants arrived early at the Tapachula airport and spent much of the day awaiting their flight. Migrant Sandro said they were heading toward Mexico City and then on to the border. “Now we are continuing the trip to the United States which is our final destination, toward the border. What border […]
An interview that Hollywood star Sean Penn conducted with Mexican Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman late last year helped Mexico’s government catch the world’s most wanted drug lord, sources said on Saturday (January 9). Guzman, the infamous boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in northwest Mexico on Friday (January 8) morning, and sent back to the prison he broke out of in July through a mile-long tunnel that led straight into his cell. Mexican authorities […]
Millions of brightly-colored monarch butterflies began arriving to their winter home in Central Mexico on Saturday, November 28 in their annual migration. This natural phenomenon of mass migration of monarch butterflies in North America was called “insects world’s fantastic feats, with millions embarking on the arduous journey from as far north as Canada down into Mexico and the California coast each autumn. https://youtu.be/MKth9e66Les
MEXICO City, September 8 (Reuters) — Police in Colombia and Mexico have seized more than two tonnes of cocaine after a sniffer dog discovered part of the consignment which had been dyed black and registered as an ingredient in print cartridges, Colombian police said on Monday (September 7). The shipment, part of which was found in the cargo terminal of Bogota’s international airport, was destined for the Mexican state of Sinaloa, home to the infamous […]
JULY 30 (Reuters) — An army of chefs in Mexico City on Wednesday (July 29) crafted a 65-metre-long (213-feet-long) monster sandwich – making it the biggest sandwich ever made in Latin America. Local authorities and dozens of local business rolled up their sleeves to prepare the sandwich – known as ‘torta’ in Mexico. Thousands of pieces of bread, lettuce, onion and tomato were mixed with hundreds of liters of mayonnaise, mustard and spicy sauces for […]
