In the 1970s, not long after the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude, I taught English at the National Polytechnic of Mexico. My students were the first generation of their families to attend higher education and they were short of heroes in their own country. The Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, a giant on the world stage as well as the greatest writer in Latin America,...
Press probes defection of Cuban star with league's richest team Source: stories could attract interest of federal authorities David Lengel on Puig, the Dodgers and more in MLB this week As one of the most volatile players in baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig was already synonymous with drama. Every time he stepped on to the field fans held their breath, unsure if they were about...
Residents sent running into the street during earthquake that is the most powerful to hit Mexico in several years A powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital and sending people running out into the street, although there were no early reports of major damage. The magnitude 7.2 quake was centered in the south-western state of Guerrero, close to the Pacific beach...
Singer Shakira joins presidents of Colombia and Mexico, as well as Bill Clinton, in paying tribute to Nobel prize-winner The death of Latin American literary giant Gabriel García Márquez prompted immediate reaction from across the continent and beyond, almost as soon as the first rumours hit the internet early on Thursday afternoon. Politicians weighed in quickly with Juan Manuel Santos,...
Mexico meeting concludes with call for greater collaboration and better mobilisation of resources to meet Busan targets The fight to end poverty is at "a critical juncture" and will require greater collaboration and stronger political will, delegates at a high-level meeting in Mexico have warned. Continue reading... ...
Millions of people have moved out of poverty and into the middle class in Latin America over the last few years. Our panel talked about what it takes to narrow the gap between rich and poor The middle class people demand rights: The growth of the middle class has been related to pressure from citizens to ensure that governments grant, respect and promote economic, social and cultural rights. Before...
Just under 60,000 undocumented migrants were deposited in Tijuana, Mexico, from the US last year. Guardian photographer Felix Clay has been to Tijuana to document the deportees, soup kitchens and the homes of those who had built a life in America Continue reading... ...
Data shows Mexican nationals comprised 65% of the 368,644 deportees in 2013, with almost 80% of those aged 20-39 Most of the undocumented people deported from the United States last year were young Mexican men, according to a new study. Mexican nationals comprised 65.5% of the 368,644 deportees, and of them the vast majority were men in their twenties and thirties, said the Transactional Records Access...
Just under 60,000 undocumented migrants were deposited in Tijuana last year. Rory Carroll reports on the traumatic uprooting for the deportees who have built a life in America Part one: the backward trek from Washington to Mexico Part two: 'They put me in shackles. Why? I'm not a criminal' Ricardo Sanchez came to the United States from his native Mexico, illegally, when he was nine. He grew up, got...
Vicente Zambada , son of Sinaloa kingpin, struck deal with US to inform on cartels in exchange for reduced sentence The young Mexican drug lord Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla made headlines three years ago when he claimed the United States government had protected his father's drug cartel in return for providing information against rival cartel members. Now, with the revelation this week that Zambada's...
Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, convicted for a 1997 murder, given lethal injection amid drug shortage controversy A man who escaped prison in his native Mexico while serving a murder sentence has been executed for fatally beating a former university professor and attacking his wife more than 16 years ago. Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, 44, was lethally injected in the state's death chamber in Huntsville on Wednesday....
From Capone to Mexico's captured cocaine king, the villains we love to hate obscure the truth about America's secret support Top Sinaloa cartel member cooperating with police in Guzman case "This American system of ours," shouted the famed gangster Al Capone in a 1930 interview . "Call it Capitalism, call it what you like gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only...
Almost 34,000 undocumented migrants are locked up in America's vast network of detention facilities and Tacoma is the crucible of a burgeoning protest campaign. Rory Carroll reports Part one: the return to Mexico from the woods of the northwest At first glance, there's nothing remarkable about the brown slab of building at the end of East J Street. A long concrete rectangle with a few small windows,...
Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla of Mexico pleaded guilty to drug trafficking a year ago, according to plea deal unsealed A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico pleaded guilty to drug trafficking a year ago and has been co-operating with authorities, federal prosecutors in Chicago announced Thursday. Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla pleaded guilty in April 2013 to one count of conspiracy to...
US settlement follows international investigation which found corruption involving IT contracts in Poland, Russia and Mexico Computing multinational Hewlett-Packard (HP) is to pay US regulators $108m to settle a corruption scandal involving employees at subsidiaries in three countries, who were charged with bribing government officials to win and retain lucrative public contracts. The case piles further...
Nobel laureate's condition remains 'delicate' as 87-year-old recovers from lung and urinary tract infection Gabriel García Márquez is now home following his hospitalisation last week, but the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author remains in a "delicate" condition, according to officials. Márquez went into a hospital in Mexico City on Thursday , where he was treated for...
Charlotte and Eric Kaufman and their two daughters needed saving 900 miles from Cabo San Lucas after their boat broke down It took three federal agencies, a fixed-wing aircraft, a US navy warship and scores of personnel to rescue an ill baby girl and her family from their broken down sailboat 900 miles off the Mexican coast. But the San Diego couple will not have to repay the federal government for...
More than 2m immigrants kicked out. The vast majority of cases from minor crimes. All this for parents who want to see their American kids grow up? Francisco Vega was just 15 years old when he got convicted for possession of a controlled substance, a minor crime and one that has haunted this Mexican-born immigrant's life ever since. The juvenile drug conviction was subsequently vacated, but not before...
About 2m undocumented migrants have been deported under Obama and a backward trek has begun. In the first of a three-part series, Rory Carroll reports from Forks, Washington The rainforests around Forks, a small town in Washington state, have long attracted hunters and fishermen, but beginning in 2008, this lush, remote landscape acquired a new breed of pursuer and prey. That year, Border Patrol agents...
Quino checkerspot, native to Mexico and California, shifts to higher altitude and chooses new species of plant for laying eggs A butterfly species whose population collapsed because of climate change and habitat loss has defied predictions of extinction to rapidly move to cooler climes and change its food plant. The quino checkerspot ( Euphydryas editha quino ), found in Mexico and California, has...