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 …
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 …
An immigration detention center in Mexico is being denounced for its inhuman conditions after migrants complained of sleeping inside cramped cells, and hallways and dining rooms infested with rats. The Siglo XXI holding facility, said to be the largest immigration detention facility in Latin America, is where most of the migrants that cross into southern Mexico end up once they …