News of mexico

ARREST IN CANCÚN

Ex-spy detained in Mexico over sex-trafficking allegations

09-10-2019 09:06 Ex-SIDE agent and brothel owner detained in Mexico and charged with sex trafficking following extradition request from Argentine federal judge.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mexico trans women fight for justice as murders unpunished

11-09-2019 09:22 Mexico has become the world's second deadliest country after Brazil for transgender people, with 261 transgender women slain in 2013 to 2018, according to a recent study by the LGBTQ rights group Letra S.

International football

Martínez steals show with hat-trick as Argentina thrash Mexico 4-0

11-09-2019 08:29 Inter Milan striker bags three at the Alamodome to give Albiceleste a deserved win over a lacklustre Mexico team in international friendly.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Mexicans march in silence to demand safety and justice for women

09-09-2019 07:28 Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Mexico City to demand justice for loved ones, girls and countless women who have been sexually assaulted, murdered or gone missing in one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a female.

Human Rights

Mexico to seek full probe into botched Ayotzinapa 43 missing students case

04-09-2019 13:26 Mexico's president said Wednesday he will push the country's attorney general and judicial council for a full investigation into officials accused of botching the investigation into the 2014 disappearance in Iguala, Guerrero, of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa normal school.

DRUG WAR

Mexico's new drug war may be worse than old one

30-08-2019 13:19 The number of homicides in Mexico's drug war was 35,000 last year. It peaked at 27,000 in 2011 at the height of the country's drug war.

JORGE NEWBERY

Mexico says businessman Carlos Ahumada arrested in Argentina

19-08-2019 07:59 Mexican federal prosecutors said Friday that authorities in Argentina acting on Mexico's request had detained Mexican-Argentine businessman Carlos Ahumada, who was tied to political scandals a decade ago and is sought on tax evasion charges.

BLOOMBERG

Latin America's central banks poised to join global rate cut party

25-07-2019 09:52 Brazil, Peru and Mexico indicate rate cuts are on the cards, but Argentina remains the outlier.

AMLO

Mexico federal police rebel against National Guard

03-07-2019 14:18 Under plans spearheaded by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the police force would be integrated into the newly formed national guard.

US BORDER CRISIS

A grim border drowning underlines peril facing many migrants

26-06-2019 17:54 The father, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, was swept away with his daughter, Valeria, when she jumped in the Rio Grande from the US bank and he tried to grab her. 283 migrant deaths were recorded at the US-Mexico border last year.

AMLO

Mexico's AMLO proposes September meeting with Trump

21-06-2019 16:31 The leaders of the two countries have never met. At the meeting, Lopez Obrador hopes to discuss the countries' recent immigration deal.

TRADE WARS & TARIFFS

Donald Trump says tariffs 'likely,' but Mexican government predicts a deal

04-06-2019 14:08 As trade wars continue to dominate the international agenda, US leader said Tuesday that the parties would try to work something out, but continued to dangle the threat of tariffs to force Mexico's hand.

BLOOMBERG

Investors seek relief as trade threats rock emerging markets

04-06-2019 13:37 The first major signs that Argentina is recovering from a recession may appear in construction and industrial activity data for April on Wednesday. But amid rising global risks, such as Brazil’s slowdown, the numbers could instead confirm fears of a delayed or weak recovery.

Bloomberg

Lost decade spectre haunts Latin America as big economies falter

28-05-2019 10:42 Latin America – hit by simultaneous contractions in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico – has expanded only 0.7% a year on average during the past few years – barely enough to keep up with population growth.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate activists call for action in Latin America

27-05-2019 15:43 Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming this weekend, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.

IMMIGRATION

Latin America, Caribbean no longer leading sources of emigration

25-01-2019 18:47 Argentina was the top destination for migrants moving within Latin America

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Mexicans set to throw out status quo in presidential vote

30-06-2018 11:47 Many voters despise the two parties that have governed Mexico for nearly a century and populist leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who leads the polls by more than 20 points, looks set to benefit in Sunday’s ballot.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

In AMLO’s hometown, Mexicans are hopeful of ‘historic’ change

30-06-2018 10:25 A glimpse into Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s past – and his future.

EDITORIAL

Down Mexico’s way

30-06-2018 08:52 Thanks in large measure to the huge markets opened by NAFTA, Mexico enjoys various advantages of which Macri can only dream of achieving in a decade or so.

MEXICO’S DISAPPEARED

Families look to Argentine forensic team to ID their missing loved ones

09-06-2018 11:19 In Mexico, distrust of the authorities run deep – more than 20,000 have gone missing in the last six years alone. And their families are left in limbo, not knowing the fate of their loved ones.

TRUMP TARIFFS

Spectre of trade war after US tariffs on EU, Mexico, Canada

31-05-2018 12:46 US announces it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Europe, Mexico and Canada after failing to win concessions from the US allies. Europe and Mexico pledged to retaliate quickly.

CAMPAIGN FINANCING

New report finds Mexican electoral campaign flush with illegal funding

29-05-2018 12:29 Mexico's Central Bank has documented inexplicable increases in the amount of cash circulating in the economy in the five months before elections.

CHANGE IN THE P.R.I.

Mexico's ruling party changes leadership amid lag in polls

03-05-2018 14:56 The PRI is lagging badly in polls for the July 1 presidential race. The new acting president, René Juárez, is a seasoned party operator and former governor.

US PRESIDENT HOT CAMPAIGN TOPIC

Mexico presidential candidates open race slamming Trump

03-04-2018 08:12 Mexico's top presidential candidates launched their campaigns vowing to take a harder line against Donald Trump, with the leftist front-runner saying his country is done being the US president's "piñata."

LATIN AMERICAN TOUR

Venezuela tops the agenda as US secretary of state lands in Argentina

03-02-2018 15:28 China and Russia accused of acting like ‘imperial powers’ in Latin America by Rex Tillerson, who will visit Bariloche and Buenos Aires during his five-nation regional tour.