Tag: Mexico

American War on Drugs 2.0

Commentary On Aug. 27, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in El Paso, Texas, caught a 14-year-old child walking across the border with 0.52 pounds of fentanyl concealed around his waist. Given that only a few grains of the drug are enough to kill, that one child had what it takes to end over…


3rd Volunteer Grave Search Activist Killed in Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico, becoming the third volunteer search activist killed in Mexico since 2021. Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, identified the dead woman Wednesday as Rosario Rodríguez Barraza. “I deeply regret the killing of Rosario Rodríguez Barraza,…


4 Places to Discover the Mayan World in Mexico and Central America

By Valentin Fuentes From TravelPulse Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are celebrating three decades of founding the Mayan World Organization (Organización Mundo Maya), which focuses on improving the quality of life of the region’s residents through sustainable tourism policies. The group of countries is seeking to bring back the tourist activity they saw…


6 of 43 Missing Mexican Students Given to Army Commander Who Ordered Them Killed: Official

MEXICO CITY—Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday. Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one…


Mexico, Cuba Report Deaths of Two Patients With Monkeypox

MEXICO CITY—Mexico and Cuba have reported the deaths of two people who had tested positive for monkeypox, although neither country attributed the fatalities to the viral disease. The reports follow monkeypox-related deaths reported in Brazil and Ecuador in the past month, but fatalities remain rare in the current outbreak. The Pan-American Health Organization has reported…


Mexico Arrests Former Top Prosecutor in 2014 Missing Students Case

MEXICO CITY—Mexican officials on Friday made the first high-level arrest in the notorious 2014 disappearance of 43 students, accusing a former top prosecutor of crimes in one of Mexico’s worst human rights abuses that current officials have called a state crime. Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo was arrested at his Mexico City home on charges…


US NHC Says 70 Percent Chance of Cyclone Forming Over Southwestern Gulf of Mexico

A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Gulf coast of Mexico from Boca de Catan north to the mouth of the Rio Grande river as a system over it has a 70 percent chance of developing into a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday….


US State Department Issues Kidnapping Advisory for Americans in Mexico

The U.S. Department of State issued an advisory warning Americans about an increased risk of kidnapping when going to Mexico, amid heightened cartel violence in several areas. “Violent crime—such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery—is widespread and common in Mexico,” the State Department said Wednesday in its notice. The federal government and State Department have…


Mexican Border Cities Hit by Burning Vehicles, Blockades

TIJUANA, Mexico—The Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali along with Rosarito and Ensenada were hit by gang violence that included vehicles being set ablaze and road blockades. The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana instructed its employees “to shelter in place until further notice” around midnight because of late Friday’s violence. It was the third time…


Mexican Troops Sent to Border City After Deadly Cartel Clash

MEXICO CITY—Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to the border city of Juarez Friday after a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts that killed 11 people, most of them civilians, authorities said. Los Chapos, members of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and…