Mexico
Biden to slowly allow 25,000 people seeking asylum into US
The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of people who are seeking asylum and have been forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era policy to be allowed into the U.S. while their cases wind through immigration courts.
Mexico tops 155,000 COVID-19 deaths, may be 3rd highest
Mexico reached 155,145 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 Thursday, which would make it the country with the world’s third-highest total, passing India’s death toll of 153,847.
Mexico approves AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use
Mexico approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for emergency use Monday, hoping to spur a halting vaccination effort that has only given about 44,000 shots since the third week of December, about 82% of the doses the country has received.
Mexico starts giving first shots of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine
An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine.
24 shot dead in Mexico drug rehab center attack
A total of 24 people were killed and seven others injured as gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire on Wednesday.
Mexican newborns test positive for coronavirus in unprecedented case
Mexico has reportedly confirmed the first ever case of coronavirus infection among newborns, creating fresh concern over the nature of the deadly virus.
New restrictions coming on travel between the US and Mexico
U.S. officials are expected to announce new restrictions on the southern border Friday as they try to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mexico: AMLO shakes, hugs, cheek-kisses despite virus advice
Health authorities are imploring Mexicans to change lifestyles and deeply ingrained customs to slow the spread of the new coronavirus: Avoid physical greetings, keep your distance from others, avoid nonessential activities, among others. The message doesn't seem to have sunk in with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who isn't practicing what his own officials are preaching.
Mexico: Thousands stay in to protest violence against women
Untold thousands of women across Mexico stayed home from work and school Monday as part of a strike billed as "A Day Without Women," a day after an unprecedented number of them filled the streets to protest rampant and rising gender violence on International Women's Day.
Vatican sends top 2 sex crimes investigators to Mexico
The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world's second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.