The education plan for deportees represents one of the first attempts by the Mexican government to pushback against the policies of the new occupant of the White House.
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Jan-Albert Hootsen is America’s Mexico City correspondent.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Central American migrants say Trump’s border wall “can’t stop us from coming”
“The prospect of having to face some new wall is nothing compared to the prospect of having to stay in Honduras, with its poverty and its violence. There’s just nothing there for us.”
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Mexican church reels after murder of another priest
“It is sad to see how every sector of society has now become a target of violence, and [clergy] are no exception.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Gas Hike Fuels Disorder Around Mexico
Social unrest swept across Mexico in early January as protests over a hike in gasoline prices escalated into acts of looting, riots and blockades of highways.
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While Mexicans angered by hike in gas prices protest, a call for political change
I haven’t seen such an outburst of nationwide anger in many years.