U.S. tariffs on China are still due to take effect within hours. Both Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said they had agreed to bolster border enforcement efforts in response to Trump’s demand to crack down on immigration and drug smuggling. That would pause 25% tariffs due to take effect on […]
U.S. military aircraft carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala on Friday. The government was not able to move ahead with a plan to have a C-17 transport aircraft land in Mexico, however, after the country denied permission. A U.S. official and a Mexican official confirmed the decision, which was […]
Nearly half a million migrants being detained between Oct. 1 and Dec. 26 suggests measures intensified towards the end of the year. Since the start of the year, some 900,000 migrants have been detained, the government said earlier this month. “We think it’s a model that works, that can always be improved, but that has […]
“If there are U.S. tariffs, Mexico would also raise tariffs,” Sheinbaum said during a press conference, in her clearest statement yet that the country was preparing possible retaliatory trade measures against its top trade partner. Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard, speaking alongside Sheinbaum, called for more regional cooperation and integration instead of a war of […]
Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a maritime operation, unprecedented in history,” said a statement from the Ministry of the Navy. It did not specify the type of the drugs but said they were valued at 2.099 billion pesos ($105 million). Twenty-three people were […]
Around four in 10 Mexicans earn the minimum wage or less. The reform is meant to cement a floor for annual wage increases, although the previous administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador backed some of the highest wage increases in decades. His successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum, has promised annual minimum wage increases of about […]
Around four in 10 Mexicans earn the minimum wage or less. The reform is meant to cement a floor for annual wage increases, although the previous administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador backed some of the highest wage increases in decades. His successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum, has promised annual minimum wage increases of about […]
Alejandro Arcos was killed less than a week after becoming mayor of Chilpancingo. “His loss has left all of Guerrero society in mourning and fills us with indignation,” Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on X, adding that the public prosecutor’s office confirmed his death. Salgado did not provide further details of the circumstances. Arcos’s […]
They gathered in Mexico City as the Senate began to debate the initiative pushed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and approved by the lower house, called the Chamber of Deputies, in which the ruling party holds sway. The proposed reform, which would see the election of judges of the Supreme Court and other […]
