Tag: Mexico

• Wednesday, May 15th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Environmental emergency in Mexico City; classes and football match suspended, and cars restricted on Wednesday

  

  Authorities declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday for metropolitan Mexico City, one of the world's most populous megalopolises, as smoke from nearby wildfires pushed pollution to levels deemed potentially harmful to human health.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Mexicans take to the streets on Mother's Day to protest 40.000 missing persons

  

  Mexicans with missing children led marches on Friday - when Mother's Day is celebrated the country- to protest the government's failure to find their sons and daughters or bring their cases to justice.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  Mexico announces a criminal probe into Brazil's Odebrecht corruption

  

  Mexico will launch a criminal probe into Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA within 60 days, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said on Monday.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Mexicans march against president Lopez Obrador saying “You're not Robin Hood”

  

  Several thousand people marched through Mexico City on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the first major protest against the leftist leader in the capital since he took office five months ago.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Mexican president sends army and navy reinforcements to contain killings in Veracruz state

  

  Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would reinforce army and navy troops in Veracruz State, three days after a child was among 13 people killed in a mass shooting there.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Record violence and killings in Mexico in the first quarter: 8.943 murders

  

  Violence in Mexico hit new heights in the first quarter of 2019, with 8,493 murders recorded from January to March, according to official figures. According to the Executive Secretariat of the Public Security National System, that number represents a 9.6% rise on the same period in 2018.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexican president announces a “Robin Hood” institute to return corruption assets to the people

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he will create a “Robin Hood” institute to return to the people the ill-gotten wealth seized from corrupt politicians and gangsters.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  US-Mexico border stricter controls hitting the highly integrated US auto industry

  

  Long delays at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing for goods destined for American plants and consumers are hitting the U.S. auto industry, and the gridlock reduced by half the number of northbound trucks that crossed the entry point last week.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Trump's carrots stick approach to Mexico and the border illegal crossing dispute

  

  President Donald Trump flew on Friday to visit newly built fencing on the Mexican border, even as he retreated from a threat to shut the frontier over what he says is an out-of-control influx of migrants and drugs.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Lopez Obrador urges Spain and the Vatican to apologize for abuses during the conquest; Madrid strongly rejects

  

  The Mexican president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been the victims of massacres.