Tag: Mexico

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

  Fire at migrant detention center in Mexico leaves 38 dead and 28 injured

  

  At least 38 people were killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the United States, according to the Mexican government. The fire broke out on Monday night in the facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state of Chihuahua.

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• Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  XXVIII Ibero-American Summit focused on economic recovery

  

  Heads of State and Government convened in Santo Domingo for the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit which is focused on post Covid-19 pandemic economic recovery in a world hit by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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• Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  First shipment of Argentine beef to Mexico takes off

  

  The first shipment of Argentine beef took off from Ezeiza Airport Tuesday on an AeroMexico flight after more than 10 years of negotiations, the South American country's National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) reported. Both countries had agreed on December 2 on the sanitary certificate requirements.

• Saturday, February 25th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Peru pulls ambassador from Mexico after AMLO's criticism

  

  Peruvian President Dina Boluarte Friday announced she was recalling Lima's ambassador from Mexico in response to her colleague Adrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) meddling in the internal affairs of her country.

• Saturday, February 18th 2023 - 10:04 UTC

  AMLO not handing over Andean presidency to “undemocratic” Peru

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would not be handing over the pro-tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru on the grounds that Pedro Castillo Terrones' impeachment has been “undemocratic,” it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 11:24 UTC

  Chapito Guzmán not to be deported for now

  

  A Mexican judge Friday agreed to Ovidio Guzmán's request not to be extradited to the United States.

• Friday, January 6th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Chapo Guzmán's son arrested in Mexico

  

  Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, also known as “El Ratón,” for allegedly trafficking fentanyl and other drugs. He is the son of former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is currently incarcerated in the United States.

• Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:40 UTC

  Commando group storms Mexican prison; 14 dead, 24 escape

  

  At least 10 prison guards have been killed on New Year's Eve during a shootout as over twenty inmates escaped the Social Rehabilitation Center (Cereso) 3 in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Four detainees were also reported to have died in the riot.

• Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Mexico, AMLO’s False Promises and waiting for the next president

  

  By Jorge G. Castañeda, NEW YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has reached the beginning of the end. AMLO, as he is widely known, was inaugurated on December 1, 2018, having promised to improve Mexico’s economy, reduce poverty and inequality, and tackle corruption and violence, all while strengthening the country’s infant democracy, and will leave office on September 30, 2024. With his term more over than not, most of what he was going to achieve has already been achieved – and it’s not much.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2022 - 20:25 UTC

  AMLO still calls Castillo “President” and insists “will of the people” must be respected

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday replied to the objections raised by Peru's Foreign Ministry to his comments regarding the ongoing political crisis in the South American Country.