Global

Venezuelans increasingly stranded in Mexico, causing decline in crossings to US

Venezuelan migrants often find Mexico to be the most challenging part of their journey to the U.S. border. Mexico’s strategy of keeping migrants closer to its southern border offers temporary relief for U.S. authorities. Mexico’s efforts include deportations, offering financial incentives to discourage return and implementing checkpoints. Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when

READ MORE
Global

Mexico probes reported kidnappings in cartel hotspot

Security forces were deployed to investigate. Mexican authorities were investigating the alleged kidnapping Friday of at least 15 people in a northwestern state home to one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels, an official said. An emergency hotline received reports of abductions from several homes in a working-class neighborhood of Culiacan, according to Sinaloa

READ MORE
Global

What will Mexico City do when its water taps run dry?

MEXICO CITY —  When Reina Cervantes Trejo heard the truck, gears grinding as it climbed the street to her house, she rushed outside. “Thanks to our good Lord!” she said. “The water has finally arrived!” Reina Cervantes Trejo helps driver Fredy Romero as he delivers long-awaited water to her home from a tanker truck. Her taps

READ MORE
Global

Mexico City residents help police chase loose wolf

Residents and schoolkids in Mexico City helped squads of police in a long-winded pursuit of a wolf loose in one of the city’s neighborhoods, authorities said. Citizens and police officers chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes in the north-side neighborhood, before the medium-sized wolf finally was cornered “with the help of neighbors,” the

READ MORE
Global

Space station crew splash down in Gulf of Mexico

Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early Tuesday, following a more than six-month mission on the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the waters off Pensacola at 5:47 a.m., with a NASA thermal camera showing all four of its drogue parachutes

READ MORE