Residents of southern Mexican town set government palace on fire after police kill young man
Lerdo de Terjada, Mexico Reuters Residents of a Mexican town set fire to the municipal palace overnight on Friday in a violent protest after local police shot a young man in the neck, according to his relatives, after he did not stop his car at a checkpoint. A burnt police car lies overturned, following the […]
Mexican officials find 129 migrants in truck amid heat wave
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute said in a statement on Saturday. The migrants were crammed into a trailer in the midst of a heat wave in Mexico, where higher-than-normal temperatures have topped 45 degrees […]
More than 1,500 migrants in Mexico caravan regularised, government says
Jesus Carranza, Mexico Reuters More than 1,500 members of a migrant caravan that set off toward the US border from southern Mexico last month have been issued documents to regularise their stay in Mexico, the migration authority said on Tuesday. The National Migration Institute said it had given 1,574 foreign nationals migration cards and ensured […]
Bloody Mexican election campaign exposes chronic security woes
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Abel Murrieta was handing out campaign flyers on the street this month when a gunman shot him in broad daylight at point-blank range, making him the latest candidate murdered in one of the bloodiest election campaigns in Mexico’s recent history. Running for mayor in mid-term elections on 6th June, Murrieta died in […]
Two priests murdered in Mexico as gang attacks against religious leaders continue
World Watch Monitor Two priests were shot dead while travelling on the Iguala-Taxco highway of Mexico’s notorious Guerrero state early on Monday. Fr Germain Muñiz Garcia and Fr Iván Añorve Jaimes, from a church in Veracruz state, were reported killed by the Catholic News Agency. Their attackers fled the scene. The Archdiocese of Acapulco, in […]