NEW YORK, United States -- A once-powerful Mexican government minister was convicted by a US jury Tuesday of aiding the very drug smuggling he was tasked with cracking down on. Genaro Garcia Luna, public security minister under Felipe Calderon's presidency from 2006 to 2012, was found guilty on all...
Contecon Manzanillo S.A. de C.V. (Contecon Manzanillo), a business unit of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), became the first port operator to be certified as carbon neutral in Mexico. Contecon Manzanillo is a concessionaire of the Specialized Container Terminal of the North...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged his visiting US counterpart Joe Biden to put an end to decades of "disdain" by the United States towards Latin America. "It is time to end this oblivion, this abandonment, this disdain for Latin America and...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Two metro trains collided in a Mexico City tunnel Saturday, killing one person and injuring 57, authorities in the megacity of 20 million reported. An injured woman is taken out the Indios Verdes metro station after two trains collided in Mexico City on January 7, 2023. At...
CULIACAN, Mexico -- Mexican security forces on Thursday captured a son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, scoring a high-profile win in the fight against powerful cartels days before US President Joe Biden visits. Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed "El Raton" (The Mouse), was caught in the...
Aside from the EU and the US, the Department of Trade and Industry will pursue discussions for bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with Latin American countries Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina to widen the reach of Philippine exports. Trad and Industry Secretary Alfredo E. Pascual told...
Where are you this time on his ‘naughty or nice’ list? MONTEREY, MEXICO Julio Cesar Aguilar Lockdown’s over, even for Santa Claus. And he’s out looking for those on his “nice” list. Are you one of them? But life’s been tough and, as Morrisey in one of The Smiths’ songs “Please,...
Contecon Manzanillo (CMSA), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) subsidiary in Mexico, just started its third phase expansion to boost its capacity from 1.4 million to over two million Twenty foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) within the next five years, making it the largest...
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, food supply chains were disrupted due to border restrictions. The disruption worsened the food insecurity in Mexico City, a thriving metropolitan home to around 9.2 million people. The food supply problem pushed the people to reflect on how their...
SAYULA DE ALEMAN, Mexico -- Nearly 100 migrants traveling in a truck were found abandoned in Mexico, officials said, a month after dozens of people died in similar conditions in the United States. The migrants were discovered Wednesday night on a highway in the eastern state of Veracruz, according...
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- A Mexican activist and mother of an autistic child has died after being set on fire, authorities said, sparking protests, condemnation and demands for justice on Thursday. People and relatives of activist Luz Raquel Padilla, who was set on fire by strangers, take part in a...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - A Mexican schoolboy was set on fire and badly burned in a classroom -- his ''only crime'' was speaking an Indigenous language in a country struggling to end racial discrimination. Two classmates are accused of pouring alcohol on Juan Zamorano's seat at a high school in the...
