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Missing Mexican human rights activist and lawyer regularly received threats
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A human rights lawyer and activist who has been missing for nearly a week in southern Mexico regularly received threats related to her work, a colleague said Thursday. Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez and her husband were last seen Oct. 4, in the town of...
El Salvador says 2 of its migrants, one a 17 year-old, died when Mexican soldiers opened fire
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The government of El Salvador said Wednesday that two of its migrants, including a 17 year-old, died when two Mexican soldiers opened fire on the truck they were riding in last week. Another underage migrant, an 11-year-old Egyptian girl, also died in the...
Mexico takes the US side in potential trade battles with China and seeks to boost local content
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top economic official has suggested his country will actively take the U.S. side in looming trade battles with China. “There is a dispute between China and the United States, stronger now than it was a few years ago," Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard...
A kitchen staffed by trans women is a refuge for Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez plops another corn cake into the piping hot oil of a large pan. As she grabs a set of tongs to flip them one by one, she yells across the kitchen realizing she’s pressed for time. “We open in 15 minutes!” she shouts...
4 mayors in Mexico ask for protection after another was beheaded
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four mayors in Mexico have asked federal authorities for protection after a colleague was beheaded last week in the southern state of Guerrero, officials said Tuesday. Mayor Alejandro Arcos had been sworn into office less than a week before. ...
The mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after he took office
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives on Monday buried the mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico who was killed just one week after he took office. Photos of the crime scene shared on social media showed Mayor Alejandro Arcos’ severed head had been left on the roof of a pickup...
12 people have been killed in coordinated attacks in violent Mexican city
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Twelve people were killed in a series of coordinated and near-simultaneous attacks in the violence-wracked city of Salamanca, authorities in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato said Friday. The victims were found Thursday at multiple points across the...
2 sisters from Egypt were among those killed in Mexican army shooting
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — An 11-year-old Egyptian girl and her 18-year-old sister were among those killed after Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants earlier this week, an official said Friday. The sisters, and four other migrants from countries including Peru...
6 migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras die near Guatemalan border after Mexican soldiers open fire
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras died in an event that President Claudia Sheinbaum described Thursday as “deplorable.” Three of the dead were from Egypt,...
Mexico's Sheinbaum keeps doing morning briefings, though her style is unlike her predecessor's
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum started her day Wednesday much like her political mentor, ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, began most of his: with an early morning news briefing from the National Palace. López Obrador's news briefings, known...
