John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colourful staging at the NYC Met
New York AP The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorialises the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968. This is El Nino, a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus through a […]
Essay: Mexico’s slow slide towards vigilante violence
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMELENDU MISRA sounds a warning about the prevalence of mob justice in today’s Mexico…
Ecuador’s ex-Vice President Glas attempted suicide, on hunger strike, former president says
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas attempted suicide earlier this week and is now on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera and former President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested […]
Former Ecuador vice president hospitalised but stable, prisons agency says
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuador’s detained former Vice President Jorge Glas was taken to hospital on Monday after he fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil, prison authorities said, just hours after his lawyers complained they had been unable to contact him. Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on […]
Total solar eclipse: North Americans celebrate with cheers, music and matrimony
Updated: 10am (AEST) Niagara Falls, US Reuters Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk on Monday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years. From a Mexican beach resort close to where the eclipse made landfall […]
Mexico welcomes home Ecuador embassy staff after armed raid
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexico welcomed the return of its Ecuador embassy personnel on Sunday, two days after police raided the facility in an act that triggered an abrupt diplomatic break while provoking global shock and condemnation of the South American nation. Ecuadorean police and soldiers forced their way into Mexico’s embassy in Quito late […]
Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP
Quito, Ecuador/Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Ecuadorean authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas on Friday evening, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, a request Mexico granted earlier on […]
Divers recover two bodies from river after Baltimore bridge collapse
Updated: 10:30am (AEDT) Baltimore, US Reuters Divers recovered the remains on Wednesday of two of the six missing workers tossed into Baltimore Harbor from a highway bridge that collapsed into shipping lanes after being rammed by a faltering cargo freighter, officials said. The bodies were pulled from the Patapsco River a day after the massive […]
Mexico fears discrimination, strained US relations under new Texas immigration law
Washington DC, US/Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Mexico filed a court brief supporting the US Department of Justice’s opposition to a Republican-backed Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border. The law, known as Senate Bill 4, would make it a state crime to illegally […]
US Supreme Court lets Texas border enforcement law take effect
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect that allows state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, rejecting a bid to block it by President Joe Biden’s administration. The court has a six-to-three conservative majority, and its three liberal […]