Mexico

By Ana Milena Varón Los Angeles, US (EFE).- «Here we are and we are not leaving» is the message of resistance that community, labour, and religious organizations in Los Angeles sent on Tuesday to the government of United States President Donald Trump, who has continued with migration raids in the...

Ciudad Juárez, México (EFE).- Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua reported Friday the discovery of 60 embalmed bodies inside a funeral home operating as a crematorium in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. The grisly scene was uncovered Thursday night in the Granjas Polo Gamboa neighborhood after residents...

Mexico City, (EFE).- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum firmly denied on Tuesday, in response to a public accusation from United States Homeland Security Kristi Noem, that she encouraged violent protests in Los Angeles following immigration raids that led to the detention of 42 Mexican nationals. “Just moments ago, the US Secretary...

Playa del Carmen, Mexico, (EFE).- The Mexican Caribbean is facing one of its worst sargassum seasons in recent years, with over 20,000 tons of seaweed already collected in the first half of 2024, a troubling sign as the summer tourist season begins, officials warned Wednesday. “We’re already exceeding 20,000 tons...

By Ana Baez Mexico City, May 10 (EFE). – Thousands of mothers marched on Saturday, ahead of Mothers’ Day in Mexico, to demand truth, justice, and reparations for over 127,000 people who have disappeared in the country, demanding that those dedicated to searching for their loved ones not disappear or...

By Ana Báez Mexico City (EFE).- There are over 127,000 missing persons who remain unaccounted for, being searched for by their families in Mexico in the absence of an official response in their relatives’ cases. «When the authorities say there are no enforced disappearances, they are insulting them,» said the...

Mexico City, (EFE).- Mexico City has launched the “Violet Glasses” initiative within its massive surveillance system, aiming to incorporate a gender perspective to detect and prevent violence against women. The program operates through the city’s C5 center: Mexico City’s Command, Control, Computing, Communications, and Citizen Contact hub, which manages over...

New York, US, Feb 28 (EFE). – Mexican kingpins, co-founder and leader of the now-defunct Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero (RCQ), and former Juarez Cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, known as «El Viceroy,» pleaded not guilty on Friday in federal court in the Eastern District of New York to charges...

International desk, Sep 25 (EFE).- Pedro Sánchez, the president of the Spanish government, said on Wednesday that the Mexican government’s decision not to invite King Felipe VI to the inauguration of president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum was «unacceptable» and «inexplicable.» Spain announced on Tuesday night that it would not be sending a...

El Paso (EE.UU.) (EFE).- Ismael ‘el Mayo’ Zambada, el cofundador del poderoso Cartel de Sinaloa y capo del narcotráfico más buscado por Estados Unidos, se presentó este jueves ante una jueza federal en Texas para una audiencia de procedimiento en silla de ruedas y con un suéter con el mensaje...

By Juan Manuel Blanco Tapachula, Mexico, Feb 2 (EFE). – The city of Tapachula, on Mexico’s southern border, closed 2023 with the highest inflation in the country amid an unprecedented migration crisis, local business organizations warned Friday. The city had an annual inflation rate of 7.17%, above Mexico’s national average...

Mexico City, Jan 12 (EFE).- Mexican LGBT groups demanded justice on Friday after the murder of Miriam Ríos, a trans member of the opposition Civic Movement (MC) party, in the western state of Michoacán. «We strongly condemn the transfeminicide of a fellow activist, an LGBTI+ leader. A precious woman of...