MEXICO CITY—Two subway trains collided between two stations Saturday in Mexico City, killing at least one person and injuring 41, authorities said. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on her Twitter account that the accident happened on Line 3 of the capital’s Metro system, without specifying the cause of the crash between the Potrero and La Raza…
Some Canadians Set to Return From Mexico’s Mazatlan Area as Airports Reopen
Some Canadian tourists in Mexico’s Sinaloa state finally began their delayed journey home on Saturday after a wave of violence erupted in the region, shuttering airports and prompting an advisory to shelter in place. Two airports in the northwestern area of Mexico have reopened, with international flights scheduled on Saturday from Mazatlan to cities in…
29 Killed as Mexican Authorities Detail Raid to Arrest Son of ‘El Chapo’
Authorities in Mexico announced on Friday that 10 military personnel and 19 suspected gang members were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of an alleged cartel leader who is the son of convicted cartel drug kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. In a blow-by-blow description of the operation to detain Ovidio…
China’s Role in Illicit Fentanyl Running Rampant on US Streets
January 7, 2023
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News Analysis Fentanyl overdose has become the leading cause of death for young Americans since 2019. U.S. authorities say that China remains the primary source of the precursor chemicals, which are then processed and manufactured into synthetic opioids by Mexican drug cartels to bring into the United States. In response to the rising threat of…
Canadian Tourists Remain Barricaded in Hotel Amid Mexican Cartel Violence
Canadian tourists in Mexico remained barricaded in their hotel Friday amid violence in the streets after the arrest of a major alleged drug cartel leader. “They’re safe in their hotel,” said Tina Dahl, an Edmonton woman with relatives stranded in the popular resort town of Mazatlan. She said her six family members had been staying…
US State Department Issues Warning to Americans Not to Travel to Mexican State
The U.S. Department of State on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to Sinaloa state, Mexico, following reports of widespread cartel violence after Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo,” was arrested. State Department spokesperson Ned Price, in a press conference, advised Americans not to go to Sinaloa, home to the Sinaloan…
Canadian Government Tells Travellers in Mexico to Shelter in Place Due to Violence
Canadian tourists were trapped inside a Mexican hotel Thursday as buses that were supposed to take them to an airport and safely home burned outside. “It’s just chaos,” said Tina Dahl of Edmonton, whose six family members stranded in the popular tourist city of Mazatlan were supposed to fly out Thursday night. The federal government advised Canadians in…
15 Dead, 47 Injured in Western Mexico Bus Crash
MEXICO CITY—Fifteen people are dead and 47 are being treated for their injuries after a bus carrying holiday season tourists flipped on a highway in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, authorities said Saturday. Officials in the nearby state of Guanajuato said all the passengers were from the same city, Leon, in that state. It…
Mexican Authorities Find Strange Holiday Package: 4 Skulls
MEXICO CITY—Authorities in central Mexico said Friday they found a strange holiday-season package at a local airport: four human skulls being shipped to the United States. Mexico’s National Guard said its officers were called to an airport in the city of Queretaro after an X-ray detected strange shapes in a cardboard box. The box was…
Mexico Should Welcome Gentrification
Commentary In passing, still deliriously happy for having left the U.S. scene for a brief period, I posted on Twitter some good impressions from my week in Mexico City, which I enjoyed enormously. And of course, my outlook suffered from the usual tourist bias in which we see only the good, the beautiful, the fun,…
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