Thirty-one migrants kidnapped in Mexico rescued by authorities
Mexico CityReuters Mexican authorities have rescued 31 migrants who were kidnapped over the weekend in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, officials announced on Wednesday. Presidential spokesperson Jesus Ramirez confirmed the rescue on messaging platform X. “They are already in the hands of the authorities and are undergoing the appropriate medical examinations,” he added, along […]
Five Venezuelans freed out of 31 migrants kidnapped in Mexico
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security services have freed five Venezuelans kidnapped over the weekend by gunmen, local authorities said on Tuesday, as they searched for another 26 people snatched from a bus traveling to the border city of Matamoros. The bus was intercepted on Saturday on the Reynosa-Matamoros route in the northern state of Tamaulipas, […]
US-Mexico border: Migrants are being raped as they await entry to US
LAURA GOTTESDIENER, TED HESSON, MICA ROSENBERG AND DAINA BETH SOLOMON, of Reuters, report…
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 […]
Reporter gunned down in latest attack on Mexican journalists
Mexico City, MexicoReuters A Mexican reporter was killed Wednesday in one of the country’s most violent northern border states, authorities and his employer said, the latest in a series of attacks in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. Antonio de la Cruz, a journalist for local newspaper Expreso, was shot and killed […]