Latest Marcelo Ebrard News

United States returns 'Earth Monster' Olmec sculpture to Mexico

May. 19, 2023 18:57 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced Friday that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States. The almost six-foot-tall (two-meter) “Monster of the Earth” sculpture appears to represent the gaping maw of a monster that is big enough to...

End of Title 42 hasn't stopped migrants' push north to US from across the Americas

May. 13, 2023 16:01 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — For weeks, Solangel Contreras raced. The Venezuelan migrant and her family of 22 trudged through the dense jungles of the Darien Gap and hopped borders across Central America. They joined thousands of other migrants from across the Hemisphere in a...

Mayorkas: US border 'very challenging' as asylum limits end

May. 05, 2023 22:50 PM EDT

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that authorities faced “extremely challenging” circumstances along the border with Mexico days before pandemic-related asylum restrictions end. A surge of Venezuelan migrants through South...

He's been Mexico's voice abroad. Now he wants the presidency

Apr. 16, 2023 12:08 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — He’s been the face of Mexico internationally for nearly five years and often the country’s leading voice in negotiations with top world leaders — including volatile ones, like former U.S. President Donald Trump. Now Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard...

Could scientist Claudia Sheinbaum be Mexico’s next leader?

Mar. 14, 2023 13:13 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is a year away from electing its next head of state and the potential candidate getting the most attention is an environmental scientist who might become the first female leader of Latin America’s second-largest economy. One poll shows Mexico City Mayor...