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 …
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 …