Mexico
Evidence ‘Invalidated’ in Explosive Report on Mexico’s 43 Missing Students
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican president said his government had finally solved the mystery behind the haunting disappearance of 43 students, one of the worst human rights abuses in the country’s recent history. In August, the government unveiled a truth commission report saying that after being abducted in 2014, the students were killed by drug […]
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Mexico’s Drought: Country Faces a Water Emergency
Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water. An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly two-thirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for hours for government water deliveries. The lack of water has grown so […]
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Diana Kennedy’s Complicated Relationship With Mexican Cuisine
Diana Kennedy sank into a dimpled leather chair at the Hotel Emma in San Antonio, leaned over her glass of Scotch and told me that the real enemy of every writer was mediocrity. This was in 2019, when she was 96, and decades of deep culinary research had made her a leading authority on Mexican […]
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More Mexicans Are Migrating to the U.S. After a Decade-Long Drop
SAN MARCOS ATESQUILAPAN, Mexico — The teenage brothers were among some 80 young men who had left San Marcos in the last two months, a growing exodus from this impoverished village of 1,600 that sits in the lush mountains of Veracruz state. On Monday at around 11 a.m., Yovani jubilantly texted his father from the […]
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Supreme Court Sides With Biden’s Efforts to End ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Biden administration may rescind a Trump-era immigration program that forces certain asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 ruling, said an immigration law gave the president discretion […]
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Violence in Rural Mexico Ensnares Doctors, Causing Worker Shortages
“They forget about a patient’s primary right, which is to be cared for wherever they are, and it’s because of this that we needed to resort to contracting foreigners,” Dr. Jorge Alcocer Varela, Mexico’s secretary of health, told reporters at a recent news conference. The announcement about the Cuban doctors provoked outrage among many Mexican […]
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How Asylum Seekers Cross the Border
The southern border is seeing a historic spike in migrant crossings. A New York Times photographer documented three ways that people cross the border into the United States. HIDALGO, Texas — Since President Biden took office, migration at the southern border of the United States has increased to levels not seen in decades. Crossings in […]
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Agatha Moves Across Southern Mexico as a Tropical Storm
Agatha, the year’s first named storm in the eastern Pacific region, was moving across southern Mexico on Tuesday morning as a tropical storm, a day after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane. Agatha came ashore on Monday afternoon just west of Puerto Angel, a fishing town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, with heavy […]
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How Some People Travel to the U.S. After Positive Covid Tests
Michelle Fishman calls it the “worst-case scenario that you don’t really think through.” After a three-week vacation in Greece, the 52-year-old hotel art consultant from Miami and her husband took pre-departure coronavirus tests required to fly home from overseas. She tested positive, he did not. Although coronavirus travel restrictions have eased across many parts of […]
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