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May 22, 2023 at 5:28 pm

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewing ash and gas closes schools VIEW

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano is spewing gas, smoke and ash.

Nation & World

May 20, 2023 at 7:02 am

Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban VIEW

Honduras has one of the world’s strictest abortion bans, with a constitutional prohibition on terminating pregnancy in all cases.

Nation & World

May 20, 2023 at 12:59 am

Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure

Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to keep migrants from massing...

Nation & World

May 18, 2023 at 9:35 pm

Threatening 22 million people, Mexico’s Popocatepetl is a very closely watched volcano

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, spewing out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions.

May 10, 2023 at 5:07 am

Huge number of asylum seekers at US-Mexico border as COVID-19 restrictions end, new rules begin VIEW

The Biden administration on Thursday will begin denying asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in...

April 21, 2023 at 5:40 pm

Guard actions in Mexico fire seen as key to who lived, died

When a fire broke out at a Mexican immigration detention facility last month, dramatically different reactions by guards in the men’s and women’s sections appeared...

Nation & World

April 11, 2023 at 9:50 pm

Mexican migration chief to be charged in fire but keep job VIEW

Mexico’s immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month.

Nation & World

A Venezuelan migrant sits on the sidewalk where an altar was created with candles and photos outside the Mexican immigration detention center that was the site of a deadly fire, as migrants wake up after spending the night on the sidewalk in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) XLM103 XLM103

March 30, 2023 at 10:24 am

Arrest orders issued for 6 in Mexican detention center fire VIEW

A lawyer says the top state immigration official allegedly ordered that migrants not be released from the burning detention center. At least 39 were killed.

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A migrant cries leaning on an ambulance as a person she knows is attended by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Juarez on Monday, March, 27, 2023. A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead. It was one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country. (Omar Ornelas/The El Paso Times via AP) TXELP215 TXELP215

March 28, 2023 at 2:55 am

Video shows guards walking away during fire that killed 38 WATCH

There were 68 men from Central and South America held in the facility at the time of the fire; at least 40 were killed.

February 19, 2023 at 11:31 am

Mexican musician finds refuge in saxophone after acid attack VIEW

María Elena Ríos once blamed her saxophone for bringing her to the brink of death, but it has been her salvation.