Author: Maria Verza
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Mexico relocates migrant camp; Haitians appear at border
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MEXICO CITY • Mexican authorities said Tuesday they have relocated a migrant camp that sprung up in a park in the border city of Reynosa, moving about 2,000 people from Central American and Haiti to a shelter in the city, across the border from McAllen, Texas. The camp of migrants mainly from Guatemala, El Salvador,…
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Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras
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CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico • Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated across the border Tuesday after Mexican troops blocked their way. Fewer than 100 remained in the no-man’s-land along the river between Guatemala and Mexico.…
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Migrant caravan arrives in Mexico City, bed down in stadium
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MEXICO CITY • Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan arrived in the Mexican capital Monday and began to fill up a sports stadium, still hundreds of miles from their goal of reaching the U.S. a day before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has made their journey a central campaign issue.…
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Hurricane Willa threatens Mexico’s Pacific coast
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MEXICO CITY • A potential catastrophic Hurricane Willa swept toward Mexico’s Pacific coast with winds of 155 mph on Monday, threatening a stretch of high-rise resort hotels, surfing beaches and fishing villages. After briefly reaching Category 5 strength, the storm’s maximum sustained winds weakened slightly to Category 4 at midafternoon. But it remained “extremely dangerous”…
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New earthquake, magnitude 6.1, shakes jittery Mexico
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MEXICO CITY — A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that together have killed nearly 400 people. The U.S. Geological Survey said the new, magnitude 6.1 temblor was centered about…
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Search for Mexico quake survivors enters day 4, some success
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MEXICO CITY — Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Mexico’s federal police said several people were lifted out of the debris of two buildings Thursday.…
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Mexico shocked by news: Girl trapped in rubble didn’t exist
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MEXICO CITY — Hour after excruciating hour, Mexicans were transfixed by dramatic efforts to reach a young girl thought buried in the rubble of a school destroyed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. She reportedly wiggled her fingers, told rescuers her name and said there were others trapped near her. Rescue workers called for tubes, pipes…
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Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake
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MEXICO CITY — As painstaking attempts to reach survivors in quake-ravaged buildings across Mexico City stretched into a third day Thursday, desperation mounted among loved ones who earlier had high hopes for quick rescues and some complained they were being kept in the dark about search efforts. And what many had clung to as the…
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Mexico angry at president’s ‘humiliating’ meeting with Trump
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president was savaged on social media and in political circles following his joint press conference Wednesday with Donald Trump, with many seeing a national humiliation in his welcoming of a man who has derided migrants as rapists and criminals. President Enrique Pena Nieto said Mexicans felt “aggrieved” and had disagreements with…