Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – Hundreds of people tried to storm the US-Mexico border on Sunday, after a rumor that migrants would be allowed to enter the United States. Around noon, a large crowd of mostly Venezuelans began gathering near the entrance to a bridge linking Ciudad Juarez in Mexico with El Paso, Texas in the … Read more
Someone claiming to belong to the Mexican drug cartel who is responsible for the kidnapping of four Americans and the murder of two of them condemned violence and will supposedly hand over its own members who have been implicated to the authorities. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law … Read more
CNN — Two Americans have returned to the United States from Mexico and are being treated at a hospital after an armed abduction killed two of their friends and sparked a days-long search for American travelers who had crossed the border for medical intervention , according to officials. The four Americans were found in a … Read more
Four American citizens were kidnapped in a brazen attack by multiple gunmen in the border town of Matamoros in northern Mexico, the FBI said. US officials confirmed on Monday that a Mexican citizen was killed in the incident. CBS News has learned that the Americans are Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Eric James Williams and … Read more
HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Days after selling everything she had to flee Cuba with her three children on a crowded boat, Daneilis Tamayo raised her hand in praise and sang the catchy opening anthem of Sunday worship in this suburb of Miami. “The only thing that gave me strength was the Lord. I’m not going … Read more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is seeking to avoid possible trade sanctions this week for failing to halt the near extinction of the vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal. Studies estimate that there are only eight vaquitas left in the Gulf of California, the only place where they exist and where … Read more
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia is offering to transfer at least 70 hippos that live near the former ranch of Pablo Escobar — descendants of four illegally imported from Africa by the late drug lord in the 1980s — to the India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population. The hippos, … Read more
MIAMI (AP) — More than half of the residents of the slice of Miami that includes Little Havana were foreign-born. And when Republican U.S. Representative Maria Elvira Salazar ran for re-election last year, she won by 15 percentage points. GOP dominance over Florida The 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party’s inroads with Latino … Read more
CNN — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday dismissed concerns over his plan to cut the country’s electoral watchdog, accusing protesters of links to drug traffickers. Footage from a mass protest in Mexico City on Sunday showed tens of thousands of people dressed in pink – the color of the National Electoral Institute … Read more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Monday lashed out at demonstrators protesting election funding cuts over the weekend, downplaying their concerns about threats to democracy and dashing any hopes that he would try to ease rising political tensions. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to revel in the conflict, hurling insults at the tens … Read more