Canada and Mexico have vowed to strengthen cooperation and present a united front as they prepare for next year’s scheduled review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The pledge comes amid growing uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and combative trade policies.
On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Mexico City for talks with President Claudia Sheinbaum. The leaders discussed deepening economic and security ties while reaffirming the value of trilateral trade with Washington.
Sheinbaum highlighted the importance of mutual respect and collaboration. “Mexico and Canada will continue walking together, with mutual respect and with the certainty …
A journalist was shot dead yesterday in southern Mexico, authorities disclosed, shortly after posting online about the disappearance about eight years ago of 43 students from a nearby area.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Mr. Fredid Roman, who published his work on various social media pages and contributed to a local newspaper, was found dead in his car in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, the local prosecutor’s office said yesterday evening.
One of the worst human rights tragedies in Mexican history is the case of the 43 Guerrero students who vanished in 2014 …
A Mexican reporter was shot dead on Wednesday in the violence-plagued northeastern state of Tamaulipas — the 12th journalist killed so far in a particularly bloody year for the country’s press.
In his some of his social media posts, Antonio de la Cruz, a reporter for the daily Expreso, frequently accused politicians of engaging in crimes of corruption.
The reporter was attacked as he was leaving his Ciudad Victoria house, and both his wife and daughter were hurt.
‘We must not allow more attacks on journalists and activists. These crimes will not go unpunished,’ President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s spokesman, …
Facing high medical costs and pressure to reconsider, a single mother living in California turned to activists across the border in Mexico who helped her have an abortion.
‘We’re supposed to be in a free country, in a state where you can smoke marijuana, but abortion is still somewhat taboo,’ the 31-year-old said, shortly before the US Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to the procedure.
The woman, of Mexican descent, believes terminating a pregnancy will now become ever harder, although the liberal West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington jointly vowed to defend abortion rights.
The Supreme …
The Latin American roll-out of a potential COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca could be set back after the biotech company announced a pause in tests, the government of Mexico, which is involved in developing the drug alongside Argentina, said Tuesday.
AstraZeneca, which is working on a vaccine in conjunction with Oxford University, said that a volunteer had developed an undiagnosed illness and that, in line with security protocols, it was delaying further tests until an independent panel had studied the case.
Pausing vaccine trials “is not an unusual occurrence… and as a consequence the vaccine’s arrival may be delayed” across …
The gunmen shot 50-caliber weapons at the SUV carrying Omar García Harfuch, Mexico City’s secretary of public security, in one of the capital’s most exclusive neighborhoods. García Harfuch was injured in the attack but was in stable condition. Two police officers and one passerby were killed, officials said. Twelve people were detained.
Violence has continued
The United States, Mexico and Canada will sign an “initial deal” Tuesday finalizing the USMCA trade agreement, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
“There is an initial deal between the governments,” the leftist leader told his daily news conference, as negotiators from the three countries prepared to meet in Mexico City.
“Today it will be signed by… the three countries’ negotiators.”
Lopez Obrador was due to chair a meeting of top officials from the three countries at the presidential palace at 1800 GMT.
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Initially signed in …
On the afternoon of October 17, the Mexican army detained Ovidio Guzman, son of the infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in the city of Culiacan. His detention led to violent retaliation from the Sinaloa cartel, which
Photographs of the document revealed that Mexico appeared to pledge to enact or enforce certain domestic laws if Washington is not satisfied with the results of its first promised efforts
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Mexican authorities have found the remains of a plane that disappeared after leaving from Las Vegas, amid reports all 14 people on board were killed.
The wreckage of the plane, a Bombardier Challenger 601, crashed in the mountainous region of Monclova, while on route to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.
The remains were found about 130 miles northwest of the town of Monclova.
Reports said the passengers were returning after watching Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez, who defeated Daniel Jacobs at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Air traffic controllers reportedly lost contact with the small …
President Donald Trump on Friday again accused Mexico of failing to curb the flow of migrants illegally entering the US, and threatened to close the common border “next week” unless something changes.
Trump’s latest tweets ramp up the tension between the neighbors, putting a specific time frame to his threats to shut the border, one of the busiest in the world.
“If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States through our Southern Border, I will be closing the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week,” he said.
“This would be so easy for …
