By ANDRÉS VILLARREAL Associated Press CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — The house that former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded has undergone some changes. The surveillance cameras that covered every angle of the exterior have been removed. And the hole Guzmán slipped through to reach an escape
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EAGLE PASS, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent made a shocking discovery while on a boat patrol in the Rio Grande. He found a two-year-old girl and three-month-old baby boy abandoned by the riverbank, with not a single adult was in sight. A note found underneath the baby’s carrier said that the two children
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By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security needs to enhance its Covid-19 prevention measures at the US-Mexico border, a newly released report from the department inspector general has found. “Without stronger COVID-19 prevention measures in place, DHS is putting its workforce, support staff, communities, and migrants at greater risk of contracting the virus,”
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EL PASO, Texas — Mexico’s independence is celebrated Sept. 16 and several events are scheduled in El Paso to celebrate. UTEP will have a celebration with El Grito at 11:30 a.m. at Centennial Plaza on the university’s campus. There will be free handheld Mexican flags to the first 150 attendees and the ceremony will include refreshments
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By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Tens of thousands of Haitian migrants are stuck in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, most unable to find work because they lack legal status. Many survive by selling what they can in the street. Most have requested asylum in Mexico, but officials are overwhelmed
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it has successfully completed a three-month push to provide coronavirus vaccines to all adult residents of communities along its border with the United States. Mexico said that when it began the effort in June, it hoped the mass vaccinations would aid in lifting pandemic restrictions on non-essential
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge in Mexico has hit drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes with a 28-year prison sentence for organized crime, money laundering and weapons posession. Carillo Fuentes was a former leader of the Juarez drug cartel, based in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. He is the
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By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — A section of mountain on the outskirts of Mexico City has given way, plunging rocks the size of small homes onto a densely populated neighborhood and leaving at least one person dead and at least 10 missing. Rescue teams scaled a three-story pile of rock where
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration appealed on Friday a Texas court ruling that found the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful — injecting fresh uncertainty into the lives of thousands of immigrants. The Justice Department filed a notice to appeal US District Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling, kicking off the appeals process
Continue Reading ACAPULCO, Mexico — Residents of Acapulco began cleaning up broken glass and chunks of plaster Wednesday as they took in the full impact of a magnitude 7 earthquake centered nearby that shook most of southern Mexico, killing one person. Many people slept outside overnight as more than 150 aftershocks rattled the hills around the beachside destination.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one person and causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City hundreds of kilometers away. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered 17 kilometers
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By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion. The court on Tuesday unanimously annulled several provisions of a state law from Coahuila that had made abortion a criminal act. The decision immediately affects only that state on the Texas border, but court
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By GERARDO CARRILLO Associated Press TULA, Mexico (AP) — Torrential rains in central Mexico have suddenly flooded a hospital, killing 16 patients. Officials say that the deaths Tuesday were possibly due to the loss of oxygen equipment as the power went out A video posted on social media accounts of the national Social Security Institute
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By MARCO UGARTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican border agents and police have broken up a caravan of hundreds of migrants who had set out from southernmost Mexico. It was the fourth such caravan officials have raided in recent days. The group of about 800 was made up largely of Central Americans, Haitians,
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A recycling plant blaze in Juarez on Saturday generated heavy dark smoke that could be seen for miles, including across the border in El Paso. The fire broke out at a metal recycling facility along Sierra Peña Blanca Street in the La Cuesta neighborhood. The Mexican news outlet El Diario reported
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VAN HORN, Texas — A Mexican woman was struck and killed Thursday night while crossing Interstate 10 near Van Horn with a group of migrants, according to Texas state troopers. Authorities on Friday identified the victim as 23-year-old Yairet Zuleima Nunez of Moroleon, Guanajuato. The deadly incident happened just before 10 p.m. along I-10 eastbound
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LAREDO, Texas — Customs and Border Protection agents searching trains for migrants said they found 18 undocumented immigrants packed inside an open freight railcar near Laredo earlier this week. Agents said these immigrants were coming from the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Mexico. Border agents indicated that trying to jump onto trains is not only
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By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says the National Guard troops that she deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico will return later this month. The Republican governor deployed 48 National Guard troops to Texas in July. The deployment came in response to a request from
Continue Reading By MARCO UGARTE and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has expressed frustration with a strategy of containing migrants in the south and says he will write to U.S. President Joe Biden to insist that country contribute to his favorite development projects in the region. The president’s
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EL PASO, Texas — A search by two El Paso Fire Department water rescue and dive teams didn’t find any signs of a person reportedly seen in the water Wednesday evening near the U.S.-Mexico border in the city’s Chihuahuita section. A fire department spokesman said the initial search effort took place along a waterway near the Chihuahuita
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Wednesday sent legislation to Gov. Greg Abbott committing nearly $2 billion in additional funds for border security over the next two years, as the state prepares to erect a border wall using state dollars. In a 23-8 vote, the Senate approved House Bill 9, which would allocate $1.88 billion
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball will face Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba in the first round of qualifying for the 2023 Basketball World Cup. The Americans won a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in Tokyo but finished only seventh at the most recent Basketball World Cup two years ago. They found out
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(Editor’s note: This story was produced as part of the Puente News Collaborative, a bi-national partnership of news organizations in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.) By Veronica Martinez/La Verdad and Victoria Rossi/El Paso Matters CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Lucero drove across the Bridge of the Americas alone. The cramps the abortion clinic’s staff told her to expect were already
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Nora has weakened to a tropical storm as it causes floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast. At midday Sunday, it passed just inland of the Mazatlan resort area as a Category 1 hurricane, then veered into the Gulf of California and weakened into a tropical storm. The Jalisco state
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Several hundred migrants, including many children, have been blocked by Mexican security forces as they tried to head north from near Mexico’s border with Guatemala hoping to reach the U.S. About 300 Haitians, Cubans and Central Americans set out on foot Saturday from the town of Tapachula and a few hundred
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly formed Hurricane Nora has swept past Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta area and is heading north for possible close encounters with other resorts farther north. Forecasters say Nora had top sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) late Saturday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasts that Nora will drag along the coast
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SOCORRO, Texas — A body was pulled from a canal in Socorro on Friday evening, according to authorities. Socorro police and firefighters on scene said the body was found in the Franklin Canal, which is a feeder to the Rio Grande river. The discovery occurred near Socorro Road and F E Jackson Road. There was
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The SUV carrying Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was stopped and surrounded by a radical teachers’ group, preventing him from leading his usual daily morning news conference. The incident occurred Friday in the southern state of Chiapas. López Obrador’s vehicle was allowed to proceed after a couple of hours. The
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A body, suspected to be that of a migrant, was recovered Thursday night along the western edge of Dona Ana County. The body was found by U.S. Border Patrol agents off of Highway 9 around 8:30 p.m. Sunland Park firefighters said they were called in following the discovery to retrieve
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EL PASO, Texas — A federal judge in El Paso on Thursday granted the Biden administration’s request for a preliminary injunction halting an executive order issued by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that targeted the transport of migrants. The executive order had already been put on hold with a temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone
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