Nov 26 19 dead, 32 injured in Mexico pilgrimage bus crash By Associated Press An official in the State of Mexico says the accident occurred Friday southwest of Mexico City. The bus was heading from the western state of Michoacan to Chalma. Continue reading
Nov 25 Mexico’s drug war fought with drones, human shields, gunships By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Residents of the town of Aguililla are fed up with the army's strategy to simply separate competing gangs. They want the army to either fight both cartels, or let the two gangs fight it out. Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch 4:45 News Wrap: Pfizer says its COVID-19 pill cuts hospitalization, death risk by 90% In our news wrap Friday, Pfizer announced strong results for a pill to treat COVID-19. Trials show it cuts infections and deaths by nearly 90 percent in high-risk adults. Three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man,… Continue watching
Oct 29 White House renews bid to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that the "Remain in Mexico" policy likely contributed to a drop in illegal border crossings in 2019 but with "substantial and unjustifiable human costs" to asylum-seekers. Continue reading
Oct 13 Hurricane Pamela makes landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast By Associated Press Hurricane Pamela has hit Mexico's Pacific coast just north of Mazatlan, bringing high winds and rain to the port city. Continue reading
Oct 08 Mexico returns 129 Haitian migrants to their homeland By Associated Press Mexico has sent another plane load of Haitian migrants back to their homeland on a flight carrying 129 people to Port au Prince. Continue reading
Oct 08 WATCH: Secretary Blinken, Mexico Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard give remarks By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press High-level delegations from Mexico and the United States were at work Friday on building a new security framework for the bilateral relationship that they hope will govern how the two countries cooperate on a broad range of issues. Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch 11:15 Ordinary people are taking the law into their own hands to counter cartel threat By Monica Villamizar In the mountain top village of Ayahualtempa in Guerrero state Mexico, children are learning how to use firearms and preparing for an attack by a nearby drug cartel. In our third and final story on the ravages of the cross-border… Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch 10:30 Fentanyl is making its way into various drugs sold in the U.S. Here’s how it gets there By Monica Villamizar For the second part of our series on the ravages of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, we take a look at the deadly cost of the drug just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. With the support of the Pulitzer Center,… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 8:56 A secret look at a Mexican cartel’s low-tech, multimillion-dollar fentanyl operation By Monica Villamizar Tonight, we begin a three-part look at the production — and devastating effects — of the drug fentanyl. Illicit use of the synthetic opioid painkiller has ravaged the United States, with Mexican drug cartels now seeing huge profits. With the… Continue watching