Mexico City: A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered a former attorney general to stand trial in the case of 43 students whose murky disappearance in 2014 traumatized the nation. Jesus Murillo Karam will be tried on charges of forced disappearance, torture, and obstruction of justice, the Federal Judiciary Council said after a court hearing in […]
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US cuts water supply to states: Mexico drought-ridden
US cuts water supply to states: Mexico is drought-ridden. Some US states and Mexico must cut their water usage to avoid a “catastrophic collapse” of the Colorado River, Washington officials said Tuesday, as a historic drought bites. More than two decades of well below-average rainfall have left the river — the lifeblood of the western […]
Mexican border city violence leaves 11 dead, shops burned
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: A wave of violence in a Mexican city on the border with the United States left 11 people dead, including a radio presenter, and businesses torched, authorities said Friday. In the first incident in Ciudad Juarez, two prison inmates were shot dead and 20 injured in a riot involving two rival gangs, […]
Nearly 100 migrants found abandoned in Mexico
Nearly 100 migrants traveling in a truck were found abandoned in Mexico, officials said. A month after dozens of people died in similar conditions in the United States. The migrants were discovered on Wednesday night, on a highway in the eastern state of Veracruz. According to authorities, who said that the vehicle headed for the […]
Mexico leader to skip Biden’s Americas Summit
MEXICO: Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Monday he would skip the regional Summit of the Americas in the United States due to Washington’s failure to invite countries it views as undemocratic. The White House confirmed that President Joe Biden would not be inviting Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to this week’s summit in Los […]
Pandemic leaves Mexican schoolchildren lagging behind
Mexico City: Nearly two years after the pandemic first shut her classroom, Mexican schoolgirl Elena Delgado is struggling to avoid falling far behind in her studies — like millions of other children around the world. Another wave of coronavirus infections gripping Mexico following the emergence of the highly contagious Omicron variant have forced the nine-year-old […]
Mexican economy to grow 6.2pc in 2021: Central Bank
Mexico’s economy will grow by 6.2 percent this year after a deep pandemic-induced recession in 2020, the central bank predicted on Tuesday, in the latest upgrade to its forecast. In June, the Bank of Mexico had predicted growth of 6.0 percent for Latin America’s second-largest economy in 2021, after a forecast in March of […]
Mexico sues US gunmakers over arms trafficking
Mexico said it filed a lawsuit against major US gunmakers in a Boston court on Wednesday over illegal cross-border arms flows that it blamed for fueling rampant drug-related violence. The Latin American nation, which has long faced pressure from the United States to curb narcotics smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking […]
Mexico referendum on prosecuting ex-presidents draws few voters
A national referendum pushed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on whether to prosecute his predecessors for alleged corruption drew only a small fraction of voters to the polls on Sunday. Turnout was little more than seven percent — far from the 40 percent necessary for it to have any legal bearing, the National […]
Mexico holds referendum on prosecuting ex-presidents
Mexicans vote Sunday in a national referendum promoted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on whether to investigate and prosecute his predecessors for alleged corruption. Lopez Obrador, a self-styled anti-graft crusader, says the public consultation will strengthen participatory democracy, but critics see it as little more than a political stunt. To be binding, 37.4 million […]