Kevin Sieff

August 30, 2020 at 8:30 am

Mexican beach resort tries to lure tourists back in the midst of the pandemic VIEW

Tourism is a huge economic engine for Mexico: "life or death" in the words of one official. Even as the pandemic wears on, leaders want...

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August 21, 2020 at 12:20 pm

Week of corruption allegations in Mexico leaves political elite pointing fingers at one another

MEXICO CITY — For years, while corruption quietly pervaded Mexican politics, there were rarely high-profile investigations into who was stealing what — or how. But...

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May 27, 2020 at 8:04 am

Coronavirus on the border: California hospitals overwhelmed by patients from Mexico VIEW

EL CENTRO, Calif. — When Manuel Ochoa started feeling sick — his body sore, his breathing restricted — he drove from his mother's home in...

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April 14, 2020 at 5:12 am

Cartels, gangs and rebels join coronavirus fight

In Afghanistan, the Taliban have dispatched health teams to far-flung provinces to confront the coronavirus. In Mexico, drug cartels are offering aid packages to those...

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March 14, 2020 at 5:26 am

El Salvador is trying suspects in the notorious El Mozote massacre. The judge is demanding crucial evidence: U.S. government records.

It was the worst massacre in the modern history of Latin America: As many as a thousand Salvadoran civilians, many of them younger than 6,...

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February 17, 2020 at 12:16 pm

They were one of the first families separated at the border; 2 1/2 years later, they’re still apart VIEW

FORT MYERS, Fla. - She tries to avoid the word. What she says is that her mom is in Guatemala. Or that her mom has...

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February 3, 2020 at 9:50 am

Second man with ties to Mexico’s largest monarch butterfly reserve found dead

Authorities are investigating the death of a part-time tour guide in one of Mexico's largest butterfly sanctuaries - the second person connected to the reserve...

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January 29, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Homero Gómez González, Mexico’s monarch butterfly defender, found dead

A Mexican activist, who fought to protect monarch butterflies, was found dead.

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January 20, 2020 at 12:20 pm

U.S.-bound migrants clash with Mexican forces at Guatemala border

MEXICO CITY - Central American migrants, traveling in a caravan from Honduras, tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border Monday after the Mexican...

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January 13, 2020 at 11:22 am

The U.S. is putting asylum seekers on planes to Guatemala – often without telling them where they’re going

GUATEMALA CITY - The chartered U.S. government flights land here every day or two, depositing Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers from the U.S. border. Many...

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