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Guatemalan security forces break up US-bound migrant caravan
Vado Hondo (Guatemala) (AFP) - Guatemalan security forces on Monday broke up a caravan of some 4,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometers through Central America on foot, AFP reporters witnessed. Police advanced on the group in a coordinated move, striking batons against their shields to make an intimidating noise, prompting the migrants to scatter. The group was still on Guatemalan soil, and many would likely regroup to resume their quest for a better life further north. The caravan, which departed Honduras on Friday, has been held up sin...
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Guatemala police fire tear gas, disperse US-bound migrant caravan
Vado Hondo (Guatemala) (AFP) - Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on foot, with soldiers beating back a group trying to push through barricades, AFP journalists witnessed. Security forces surrounded the migrant caravan on a road in the southeastern Guatemalan town of Vado Hondo, near the border with Honduras. Amid the deafening explosions of gas and smoke cannisters, many migrants retreated, with some waiting nearby to make a new attempt later, while others fled into nearby mountains. Several dropped their spars...
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Guatemala police fire tear gas at US-bound migrant caravan: AFP
Vado Hondo (Guatemala) (AFP) - Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of migrants headed for the United States on foot, and soldiers beat back a group that tried to push through barriers, AFP journalists witnessed. Security forces surrounded the migrant caravan on a road in the town of Vado Hondo, near the border with Honduras where they came from, and fired tear gas. Police say at least 6,000 people had arrived in the town, out of some 9,000 who left Honduras in recent days in the hopes of making it to the United States to start a new life there. The deafening explosion...
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US-bound migrant caravan in Guatemala swells to 9,000 people
Camotan (Guatemala) (AFP) - At least 9,000 Honduran migrants have entered Guatemala after a first group pushed past border police late Friday and others soon followed on the first step of a journey north they hope will take them to the United States, officials said Saturday. Seeking to escape poverty, unemployment, gang and drug violence and the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes, the migrants, most of them traveling on foot, planned to head first to Mexico and then on to the US, a journey of thousands of kilometers. A first group of men, women and children -- many wearing masks due to th...
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US threatens to halt intel sharing in Mexican drug row
Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department on Saturday threatened to end law enforcement cooperation with Mexico after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused American authorities of fabricating drug trafficking evidence against a former Mexican defense chief. "The United States Department of Justice fully stands by its investigation" of Salvador Cienfuegos, a department spokesperson said, saying that investigation materials released by Mexico on the case were "not fabricated." Mexico's publicizing of investigation materials, the department added, violated an agreement between the two ...
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Mexico accuses DEA of fabricating ex-defense chief crimes
Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of fabricating crimes in the case of a former defense minister whose arrest sparked diplomatic tensions. The detention of Salvador Cienfuegos at a Los Angeles airport in October had surprised and irritated the Mexican government, which successfully pushed for him to be sent home to face possible prosecution. Lopez Obrador said he supported Mexican prosecutors' decision to take no action over "the accusation that was fabricated against General Cienfuegos by the US age...
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Mexico to use trade deal to ensure US vaccinates workers
Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico said Wednesday that it would invoke a North American free trade agreement to ensure that the United States vaccinates its workers against the coronavirus whatever their immigration status. "It's the responsibility of each country to ensure that all workers, regardless of their immigration status, receive the vaccine," Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters. "Any exclusion of Mexican workers is a violation of the labor rights section of the free trade agreement," he added. Mexico protested last week after Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was reported to have sa...
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US-Mexico drug war ripe for rethink under Biden, experts say
Mexico City (AFP) - President-elect Joe Biden's arrival in the White House is expected to bring a shake-up of US-Mexican cooperation in a bloody war on drugs that has failed to rein in powerful cartels, experts say. Mexico has seen more than 300,000 murders since deploying the military in the anti-narcotics fight in 2006, most of them blamed on criminal gangs, while drugs continue to flood across its northern border. Outgoing US President Donald Trump has been a staunch supporter of tough action against the drug lords, calling for a "war" on the cartels. Biden's Democrats, however, "are more c...
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Cuban asylum seekers protest on US-Mexican border
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - Several hundred Cuban asylum seekers protested on the US-Mexican border into the early hours of Wednesday, pleading to be allowed into the United States while their applications are processed. US authorities deployed border agents and used barbed wire to block a bridge between El Paso, Texas and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez where the crowd massed from late Tuesday. "The only thing we're asking for is that they let us wait in the United States for our political asylum," Cuban migrant Raudel Tejeda told AFP. The protesters alleged they had faced human rights v...
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Model Audra Mari snags 2021 Ford Bronco Sport: How she's using it with Josh Duhamel
Model Audra Mari said she hoped to buy a 2021 Ford Bronco but realized that she needed a vehicle now and simply couldn't wait until next summer or later. A redesigned version of the beloved SUV is making a return after a quarter century and more than 150,000 have been ordered. Ford has said customer delivery has been pushed back from spring to summer. So Ward Cater, an old family friend who owns a dealership, suggested Mari consider a baby Bronco, the Bronco Sport. She stopped by Vision Ford-Lincoln in Wahpeton, North Dakota, on Dec. 10 with her boyfriend, actor Josh Duhamel, took the vehicle ...
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