The director of an online news site in southeast Mexico had been threatened in recent weeks over her journalism before being killed with a colleague, her brother said Tuesday. Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, the director and a reporter, respectively, of the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque were shot Monday…
University Dean Moved by the Depth of Shen Yun
GUADALAJARA, Mexico—It isn’t often that we come across a performance that makes us wonder about our role in this world. For Dr. Ricardo Villanueva Lomeli, dean of the University of Guadalajara, experiencing Shen Yun Performing Arts did just that for him. “I think that in each passage you discover things, all the messages they give…
Australian Woman Missing in Mexico After Child Found Alone
MEXICO CITY—Authorities on Mexico’s Caribbean coast have issued an alert for a missing Australian woman whose 2-year-old daughter was found wandering alone in the resort city of Cancun. Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said Tahnee Shanks, 32, was last seen on Monday in Cancun. There was no immediate information on how she…
Nissan Says It Will Invest More Than $700 Million in Mexico
MEXICO CITY—Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co said on Wednesday it will invest more than $700 million in Mexico during the next three years to boost its operations in the country. The investment is set to improve the facilities, equipment and automation procedures in Nissan’s facility located in the state of Aguascalientes, the company said in…
Capitol Report (May 2): SCOTUS: Boston Can’t Ban Christian Flag
The Supreme Court ruled on a dispute over flying a religious flag outside Boston City Hall. We talked to the person who fought to fly the flag about what his victory meant. The U.S. embassy is now planning to move back into Ukraine’s capital, and a group of lawmakers wrapped up their trip to the…
Biden, Mexican President Discuss ‘Irregular’ Immigration at Southern Border
President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador joined a bilateral meeting on Friday where the two leaders discussed efforts to limit “irregular” immigration at the southern border. The meeting also addressed the visions of both the United States and Mexico to accelerate development and infrastructure projects along shared borders to strengthen North…
Capitol Report (April 29): Trump Returns to Social Media
With illegal immigration surging at the southern border, President Joe Biden and Mexico’s president spoke on Friday. What’s their plan? For decades at the southern border, illegal immigrants have mostly originated from Mexico and other Central and South American countries, but now Border Patrol is catching people from countries all over the world—even from countries that…
8 Killed in Clash at Mexican Cement Plant
MEXICO CITY—At least eight people were killed and 11 injured when competing groups of workers clashed at a cement plant before dawn Wednesday in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, authorities said. The deadly clash to control the cement plant near Tula, Hidalgo caps at least a decade of angry, sometimes violent disputes within the…
Russian Marries Ukrainian at US–Mexico Border
More than ten thousand kilometres away from their home countries, Russian Semen Bobrovski and Ukrainian Darina Sakhniuk got married at the Civil Registry offices of the Tijuana City Hall. Before the Russian invasion, the couple lived in Ukraine and managed to leave the country and arrive in Tijuana a fortnight ago to apply for refugee…
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Venue Director Delighted to Have Chinese Culture on his Stage
QUERETARO, Mexico—Alfredo Espinoza Leal is the director of the Querétaro Congress Center (QCC) and he has seen productions come in and out of his venue but Shen Yun Performing Arts is incredible and one of the most unique that he has seen. And he wants it to come back and perform again. “We are delighted to present this…