10,000 migrants reach US border daily, highlighting need to address root causes, Mexico says
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Some 10,000 migrants and asylum seekers arrived at the US-Mexico border daily last week, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday, amid record numbers of people moving north across the continent. Migrants, who were stranded a day earlier near Villa Ahumada, and who are seeking asylum in the United States, […]
Mexican armed forces were complicit in students’ disappearance, new report finds
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security forces were complicit in the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and concealed documents which showed where some of them were taken, according to a new report by an independent panel of international experts presented on Tuesday. Carlos Martin Beristain and Angela Buitrago, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent […]
Mexico investigates troops over video of “execution” of five men
Mexico CityReuters Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated 18th May from the […]
Fifty migrants kidnapped from Mexican bus
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security forces are searching for about 50 migrants who were kidnapped from a commercial bus, authorities said Wednesday. The kidnapping took place in the central state of San Luis Potosi, the Attorney General’s Office there said. The bus, whose two drivers were also missing, was discovered further north in the border […]
Prosecutors probe Mexico immigration chief over fire that killed 40 migrants
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The head of Mexico’s immigration agency, Francisco Garduno, is under investigation over a deadly fire last month at a migrant detention center in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday. A view shows migrants camp outside the immigration detention centre where several migrants […]
Trump, newly charged, urges defunding US Justice Department and FBI
Washington DC, US Reuters Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the US Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency in 2024, […]
Mexican probe into missing students beset by delays and failure, watchdog says
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 vowing […]
Mexican President vows to deliver justice for migrants killed in fire
Updated: 1pm (AEDT)Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread killing 39 people at a detention centre in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said on Wednesday, as Mexico’s President vowed to bring to justice those responsible. An investigation is underway to determine what happened Monday at the centre in […]
2022 was most dangerous year for journalists in Mexico -advocacy group
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Last year was the most violent on record for journalists in Mexico, the free-speech group Article 19 said on Tuesday, citing security forces and other state agents as the main offenders. In 2022, Article 19 recorded 696 crimes against media workers, ranging from intimidation and harassment to kidnapping and murder, the organisation […]
In Mexico thousands protest electoral overhaul they say threatens democracy
Mexico City Reuters Huge crowds gathered across Mexico on Sunday to oppose a government drive to shrink the independent electoral authority, arguing the changes threaten democracy, in what appeared to be the largest protests yet against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration. Organisers said in Mexico City over 500,000 people attended, with video footage on […]