Mexican border state: costs of ‘migrant crisis’ reach nearly $US1 billion
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The costs of spiking migration for a key Mexican border state due to a sharp downturn in US-bound cargo trucks total nearly $US1 billion over about two weeks, state officials said Tuesday, as authorities in both countries struggle with the latest surge. The state government of Chihuahua announced in a statement that […]
Jesuits remain in Mexican mountains after priests’ killings
Mexico City AP Two months after a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico, the suspected killer remains on the loose and townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it is not leaving. The killings of Javier Campos and Joaquín Mora, as well as a tourism guide […]
Priests killed in Mexico devoted decades to remote region; Pope decries killings
Mexico City, Mexico AP Well before many roads were paved in Mexico’s remote Tarahumara mountains, Jesuit priest Javier Campos crisscrossed the area on a motorcycle. During five decades ministering to its impoverished communities, his familiar imitation of a rooster and love of singing earned him the nickname “Gallo”. His colleague Joaquín Mora was often at […]
Updated: Jesuit priests killed by gunmen in church in northern Mexico
Updated: 3pm (AEST)Mexico City, MexicoAP Two elderly Jesuit priests were killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch announced Tuesday. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, 80, were slain Monday inside the church in […]
Life in pictures: In Mexico, a decade of images shows Mennonites’ traditions frozen in time
Photographer JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ and CASSANDRA GARRISON, of Reuters, delve into an archive of images showing life within the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico…
Mexico human trafficking cases stall as coronavirus bites
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Investigations into human trafficking in Mexico stagnated in 2020 after two years of sharp growth, with activists saying that authorities had struggled to adapt as the crime evolved and recruitment shifted online during the coronavirus pandemic. State authorities launched 551 trafficking cases last year – up one per cent from […]
Mexican pastor survives assassination attempt
World Watch Monitor A Mexican pastor who survived an assassination attempt in the notorious border city of Juarez in June says he was targeted because his church’s work is seen to negatively impact upon the efforts of drug cartels. A hitman entered the pastor’s home on 12th June, making him kneel down on the floor […]
ESSAY: RISING SUICIDES IN MEXICO EXPOSE MENTAL HEALTH TOLL OF LIVING WITH EXTREME, CHRONIC VIOLENCE
CECILIA FARFÁN-MÉNDEZ, a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, says while violence is once again rising in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, even when it was declining, the number of suicides was on the rise…
MEXICO: PASTOR KILLED, NINE YEARS ON FROM SON’S MURDER, AMID ONGOING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN JUAREZ
World Watch Monitor reports on the tragic story of a pastor and son – both murdered in the city of Ciudad Juarez – against the background of continuing drug cartel-related brutality – including against Christians – in the border region…