Jan 18 Trump insists his views on a border wall have not 'evolved' By Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The president said on Twitter: "The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it." His tweets pushed back against his own chief of staff's recent comments to lawmakers. Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch 8:50 Murder, extortion and corruption tarnish former tourist haven Acapulco By Danny Gold 2017 marked Acapulco's fifth straight year of being Mexico's most murderous city. Once an internationally renowned tropical paradise, violence has shot up over the last decade. But while police and military forces protect tourists, residents say little is done to… Continue watching
Jan 06 AP report: Trump seeks $18 billion to extend border wall over 10 years By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press The Trump administration has proposed spending $18 billion over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 3:43 NAFTA renegotiations hit impasse, raising doubts about its future By PBS News Hour The North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the world’s largest free trade zone 23 years ago. This summer, the U.S. began renegotiating NAFTA in a bid to reduce a trade deficit with Canada and Mexico -- but the talks,… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch 5:12 News Wrap: Mexico City slowly reopens schools after quake By PBS News Hour In our News Wrap Monday, the death toll in the wake of Mexico’s earthquake reached at least 324. As crews in Mexico City continue to search for survivors through rubble, officials cleared 103 of the city’s 9,000 schools as safe… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch 3:21 In central Mexico, earthquake survivors face extensive damage By PBS News Hour Mexico’s government said Sunday that 318 people died from last week's major earthquake, including 180 people in Mexico City, where dozens of buildings collapsed. Outside the city, residents of rural towns and villages are assessing massive damage to their homes… Continue watching
Sep 23 Twin earthquakes expose Mexico's deep inequality By Luis Gómez Romero, The Conversation Shattered by powerful back-to-back earthquakes, Mexico is facing daunting damages across six states. Now Chiapas and Oaxaca, the country's two poorest states, which were hit first, fear neglect. Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch 6:30 Cleaning up from the quake, Mexico continues search for survivors and answers By PBS News Hour Search-and-rescue missions continue across Mexico City in the wake of the massive earthquake that struck the country Tuesday afternoon. There is a rush to bring machinery in and clean the rubble, but some worry that an abrupt clean-up would erase… Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch in 360: Rescuers search for survivors in collapsed apartment building in Mexico City By William Brangham Hundreds of rescuers worked Wednesday night to find four women believed to be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the La Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. Volunteers removed the rubble by hand, carrying it away in… Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch 6:23 In Mexico, a race against time to rescue earthquake survivors from the rubble By PBS News Hour Hundreds of rescuers in Mexico continued to search for survivors Thursday after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday left at least 270 dead. A collapsed school in Mexico City sparked a desperate search for a girl that gripped the country,… Continue watching