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About 1,500 migrants form a new caravan in Mexico. Here’s what it means

TAPACHULA, Mexico — About 1,500 migrants formed a new caravan Wednesday in southern Mexico, hoping to walk or catch rides to the U.S. border. Migrants pause on the shoulder of a road, on the outskirts of Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, during their journey to the U.S. border. “That would be easier.” Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Caravan of migrants hoping to reach America shrinks to half its size after Donald Trump's election victory

Daily Mail

A caravan of thousands of migrants travelling through Mexico with the hope of reaching the U.S. has shrunk to about half its original size following Donald Trump's victory on Tuesday - amid fears the president elect could close the southern border. Migrants walk in a caravan along a highway on their way to the U.S. border, in Villa Comaltitlan, Mexico …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump win casts doubt on future of Mexico's migrant caravan

Hindustan Times

By Daniel Becerril and Lizbeth Diaz Trump win casts doubt on future of Mexico's migrant caravan TACHULA, Mexico Nov 7 - Thousands of migrants traveling together in a caravan in Mexico are grappling with their next steps after former U.S. President Donald Trump, who ran on an anti-immigration platform, was propelled to victory for a second term. "I had hoped …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Latin America and Caribbean: A Week of Resilience and Hope

Associated Press

Millions of Cubans were left without electricity for days after the nation’s energy grid went down when one of the island’s major power plants failed. The Amazon River naturally fluctuates during the dry and rainy seasons, but a dramatic drop has been evident since 2023. The article highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past …

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Hundreds Attend Burial of Catholic Priest and Indigenous Peace Activist in Chiapas

Hindustan Times

Hundreds of people attended the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. Rev. Pérez had worked tirelessly to bring peace to the highlands and border regions of Chiapas, where two drug cartels are battling for control.

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2 months ago

Unas 3.000 personas despiden al sacerdote asesinado en el sur de México. Hay un detenido

LA Times

Los residentes participan en una procesión fúnebre por el sacerdote católico y activista asesinado Marcelo Pérez, en San Andrés Larráinzar, estado de Chiapas, México, el martes 22 de octubre de 2024. SAN ANDRÉS LARRÁINZAR, México.— Unas 3.000 personas se dieron cita para dar el último adiós al sacerdote y defensor de derechos humanos Marcelo Pérez y exigir justicia por su …

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2 months ago

Indigenous Activist Marcelo Pérez Shot and Killed in Mexico

Associated Press

Catholic priest and Indigenous activist Marcelo Pérez was killed in southern Mexico. The prosecutors’ office in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, said the religious leader was shot dead by two gunmen when he was in his van. Pérez was a member of the Tzotzil Indigenous people and had just finished serving a …

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2 months ago

Catholic priest, noted human rights defender, assassinated in southern Mexico

LA Times

A Roman Catholic priest who was a leading voice for peace and conciliation in Mexico’s strife-torn southern Chiapas state was assassinated Sunday after celebrating Mass, authorities said, sparking a wave of denunciations throughout the country. Mexico’s two largest criminal syndicates — the Sinaloa and the Jalisco New Generation cartels — are at war for smuggling routes in Chiapas, authorities say, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican army troops open fire

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexico vows inquiry after soldiers fire on U.S.-bound migrants, killing six

LA Times

Migrants aiming to reach the United States walk on the highway through Suchiate, in southern Mexico’s Chiapas state, in the summer of 2024. Mexican authorities vowed to investigate a deadly incident in which its soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying U.S.-bound migrants near the country’s southern border with Guatemala, killing six and injuring at least 10 others. Soldiers opened …

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4 months ago

Drug cartels’ turf war in Mexico’s Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala

LA Times

In their native village in southern Mexico, people once lived a tranquil existence. They are among thousands of people displaced by an escalating turf war that has engulfed much of Mexico’s Chiapas state — known for its Indigenous cultures, spectacular nature, Maya ruins and picturesque colonial towns — in the sort of violence that has already convulsed so much of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence, but also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first comments since the refugees fled earlier this week, the president went on to add that Mexico is a large …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Más de 550 mexicanos huyen en familia a Guatemala en busca de refugio ante la violencia en Chiapas

Associated Press

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA — El presidente guatemalteco, Bernardo Arévalo, confirmó el miércoles que familias mexicanas cruzaron la frontera de Guatemala en busca de refugio, huyendo de la violencia que azota el sur de México. Los refugiados mexicanos habrían llegado a por lo menos dos comunidades en el país vecino y suman ya unas 580 personas, entre niñas, niños, mujeres, hombres …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY — Nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border from Mexico into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence, Guatemalan authorities said Wednesday. Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo said that his administration was coordinating with the local governments in Huehuetenango and the municipality of Cuilco to attend to the Mexicans “who are escaping conflict between groups that is taking …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Massive new caravan of migrants including families with strollers sets off for the US border from southern Mexico to arrive before November's presidential election after Donald Trump vowed to close it

Daily Mail

About 3,000 people have begun making their way to the US hours after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House, as they hope to reach the border before the November election, after Donald Trump vowed to close the border down if he wins. Hundreds of migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, set out …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Drug gang turf war dumps dozens of bodies in Mexico truck

Al Jazeera

Probers say the clash was between the powerful Sinaloa cartel and another gang identified as ‘Chiapas and Guatemala’. At least 19 bodies were discovered in or around a dump truck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said on Tuesday. An initial investigation said the clash was between the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful in Mexico, and …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find

LA Times

Social media users in Mexico have been circulating a video featuring especially grisly images: a tangle of bloodied bodies, some in tactical gear, lying in a dump truck. This week, Mexican authorities said they discovered 19 bodies on an isolated dirt road, the latest deaths in a brutal trafficking war that has convulsed Mexico’s poorest and southernmost state. “The traffic …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Massive displacement latest sign of fear in Mexican state disputed by cartels

Associated Press

TILA, Mexico — It was night when residents of this remote town began to hear gunshots. The store sign reads in Spanish, “Peace.” Houses sit on the hillside in Tila, Chiapas state, Mexico, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. He made his living driving Tila’s streets playing ads from a large speaker atop his Volkswagen Beetle, but now says, “We can’t live …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings

Associated Press

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho, said the killings happened there Friday, and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups suspected of being backed …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence

Associated Press

YAJALON, Mexico — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas remained fearful Tuesday of returning to their homes. “They tell us to return but who can guarantee that we will be safe, that there won’t be problems?” said Gómez, speaking from a sports court turned camp for the displaced in …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged Monday that authorities have had to set up camps for displaced people after some 4,200 residents fled a town in the southern state of Chiapas. Residents of the town of Tila fled over the weekend after armed gangs shot up the town and burned many homes last week, state prosecutors …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before

Associated Press

COTIJA, Mexico — Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role than before in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts. The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control. On Wednesday, the last official …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

A woman will likely be Mexico’s next president. But in some Indigenous villages, men hold the power

Associated Press

PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico — At 4:30 a.m., the girls and women begin to appear in the dark streets of this rural village of Tojolabal people in southern Mexico. A young woman cooks tortillas over a fire in her kitchen in Plan de Ayala, a Tojolabal village in the Las Margaritas municipality of Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bullets before ballots: Dozens of Mexican candidates have been killed as cartels seek more control

LA Times

Noé Ramos was chatting with voters, sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern Mexico. On Wednesday, the last official day of the Mexican campaign, another mayoral candidate was killed — in the western state of Guerrero, among Mexico’s most violent. The killings this cycle, documented by human rights groups and others, haven’t reached …

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About 1,500 migrants form a new caravan in Mexico. Here’s what it means

Caravan of migrants hoping to reach America shrinks to half its size after Donald Trump's election victory

Trump win casts doubt on future of Mexico's migrant caravan

Latin America and Caribbean: A Week of Resilience and Hope

Hundreds Attend Burial of Catholic Priest and Indigenous Peace Activist in Chiapas

Unas 3.000 personas despiden al sacerdote asesinado en el sur de México. Hay un detenido

Indigenous Activist Marcelo Pérez Shot and Killed in Mexico

Catholic priest, noted human rights defender, assassinated in southern Mexico

6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican army troops open fire

Mexico vows inquiry after soldiers fire on U.S.-bound migrants, killing six

Drug cartels’ turf war in Mexico’s Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala

Mexico’s president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

Más de 550 mexicanos huyen en familia a Guatemala en busca de refugio ante la violencia en Chiapas

Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

Massive new caravan of migrants including families with strollers sets off for the US border from southern Mexico to arrive before November's presidential election after Donald Trump vowed to close it

Drug gang turf war dumps dozens of bodies in Mexico truck

Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find

Massive displacement latest sign of fear in Mexican state disputed by cartels

Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings

Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence

Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes

Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before

A woman will likely be Mexico’s next president. But in some Indigenous villages, men hold the power

Bullets before ballots: Dozens of Mexican candidates have been killed as cartels seek more control