The Latest Breaking News from Mexico

Mexico president says soldiers did not confront cartel 'to avoid deaths'

A military convoy in the Mexican state of Michoacan did not confront the members of a drug cartel who chased them out of town in broad daylight "to avoid deaths," the country's president said Thursday.  

Reuters · May 12, 2022

2 Stock Picks For Booming Tourism In Mexico

The COVID-19 pandemic put a hurt on many areas around the world that rely on international travelers to fly into their airports, stay in resorts and ultimately spend money. Rising cases of COVID-19 variants has hurt tourism again, but one place that doesn’t seem to be feeling the hurt is the tourist…

Benzinga · May 12, 2022

As others are blocked, Colombians reach US through Mexico

Tens of thousands of Colombians are fleeing one of Latin America’s most populous countries on a migration route that has rarely been used

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

Migrant disappearances quadruple in Mexico in 2021, says report

Reported cases of missing migrants in Mexico jumped nearly fourfold in 2021 from 2020, as the country struggles to stem the flow of undocumented people from Central America to the United States, according to a report released Wednesday.

Reuters · May 11, 2022

Texas’ White Guy History Project

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

Texas Observer · May 11, 2022

Welcome to the jungle: inside Mexico’s groundbreaking natural art gallery

Part building, part tropical grove, this forest art space in the Yucatan peninsula is a living, breathing masterpiece of its own

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2022

Young Mexican Americans embracing, uplifting their roots through music; ‘I imagine myself in Mexico’

CHICAGO -- Spanish was rarely spoken at home while Luis Eduardo Sanchez was growing up in the early 2000s. He attended a predominantly white elementary and middle school in suburban Illinois. Despite being a son of a Mexican immigrant father and a Chicana mother, he recalls not feeling comfortable embracing…

Chicago Tribune · May 11, 2022

Mexico threatens to boycott Americas summit unless Biden allows Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to attend

Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he’s out if the US excludes certain nations

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

Supreme Court can decide ‘Remain in Mexico’ issue, lawyers argue

The Biden administration agreed with Republican officials from Texas and Missouri on Monday that the Supreme Court has the authority to decide the core legal questions in a case about the fate of a Trump-era immigration program.

Tribune News Service · May 10, 2022

Heartbroken relatives protest Mexico's missing on Mother's Day

Karla Rios held up a banner with pictures of her sister and niece at the Mexican capital's monument to mothers on Tuesday - just two among thousands of people in Mexico who have disappeared in recent years without trace, leaving anguished relatives without answers.

Reuters · May 10, 2022