Mexico

Port Tampa Bay Expects More Cargo From Mexico And Asia In 2020

By Bradley George • Dec 23, 2019

2019 was a busy year for Port Tampa Bay. Florida’s largest port set a record for cruise passengers and welcomed cargo ships from Asia.

CEO Paul Anderson said direct service to Shanghai, Singapore and other Asian ports has been a priority since he was hired in 2012. The service’s launch coincided with a trade war between the Trump Administration and China, which included tariffs and prolonged negotiations on a bilateral trade agreement.

Let's Hope NAFTA 2.0 Is A Hemispheric Shot In The Arm – Not Another Poke In The Ribs

By Tim Padgett • Dec 11, 2019

COMMENTARY

When I read this week that President Trump and House Democrats had agreed on a new and improved North American Free Trade Agreement – now called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA – I recalled an afternoon 28 years ago when a ticked-off corporate honcho jabbed his finger in my ribs.

U.S. Catholic Church's Latino Survival Strategy Takes Big Sex Abuse Hit – In Latin America

By Tim Padgett • Nov 27, 2019

COMMENTARY

Even by the satanic standards of all the clerical sexual abuse cases the world has learned of, this one is especially evil.

The Immigration Crisis Falls On Her Doorstep. 'Where We Come From' Explores What Happens Next.

By Tim Padgett • Nov 18, 2019

Few issues dominate our politics today more passionately than immigration, but we rarely see the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border dramatized in fiction. Now Texas author and border native Oscar Cásares has written what one critic calls a “quietly suspenseful” novel titled “Where We Come From.”

Finishing His Term Was Better Punishment For Evo Morales – And Bolivia's Democracy

By Tim Padgett • Nov 13, 2019

COMMENTARY

Usually the only thing more narrow-minded than a right-wing American wading into Latin American politics is a left-wing American wading into Latin American politics.

Which brings us to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. When left-wing Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned this week and went into exile in Mexico, the left-wing New York congresswoman tweeted he was the victim of a coup – of a “violent power grab.”

Trump Wants To 'Wage WAR' On Mexican Drug Cartels. But Is He A Reason They're Winning?

By Tim Padgett • Nov 6, 2019

COMMENTARY

I'm profoundly sad to say I’m not surprised – horrified, but hardly surprised – by Tuesday’s brutal massacre of innocent women and children by drug cartel gunmen on a road in northern Mexico.

I’ve been watching Mexico’s savage narco-insurgency escalate for three decades. When I wrote a cover story for TIME about its horrors eight years ago, I naively assumed it couldn’t get worse. Hombre, I could not have been more wrong. Even infants were among the nine people murdered in Tuesday's ambush. There is no bottom to the gangland homicide plague south of the border, which keeps reaching record numbers.

9 Family Members, All U.S. Citizens, Die In Highway Attack In Mexico

By Bill Chappell • Nov 5, 2019

Updated at 4:22 p.m. ET

Three women and six children were killed in an attack on members of a Mormon family as they traveled in Mexico on Monday, according to Mexican officials. Relatives say all of those killed were U.S. citizens, and authorities in the state of Sonora say the group was "ambushed by a group of armed people."

Massive Gun Battle Erupts In Mexico Over Son Of Drug Kingpin 'El Chapo'

By Scott Neuman & Carrie Kahn • Oct 18, 2019

Updated at 10 a.m. ET

Heavily armed gunmen went on a shooting rampage through the city of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast, battling security forces after authorities attempted to arrest a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

The gunfire from what appeared to be sniper rifles and truck-mounted machine guns sent residents of the western city scrambling for cover. Burning vehicles littered the streets as the gunmen faced off against the National Guard, army and police.

Virus Found In Mexican Tomatoes Worries Florida Agriculture Officials

By News Service of Florida • Oct 11, 2019

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services expressed concern Wednesday about a virus dangerous to tomatoes and peppers that has been found in tomatoes imported from Mexico.

Trump's Hemispheric Deal With The Devil Is Less About Commies, More About Color

By Tim Padgett • Jul 31, 2019

COMMENTARY

During the Cold War, the U.S. quip about almost any Latin American dictator was that “he may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”

Mexican Drug Kingpin 'El Chapo' Is Sentenced To Life Plus 30 Years In U.S. Prison

By Bill Chappell • Jul 17, 2019

Updated at 1 p.m. ET

A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has sentenced drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to a term of life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 30 years for his role in leading Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. A life sentence was mandatory; U.S. prosecutors had asked that three decades be added onto Guzmán's punishment.

The sentence also includes a multibillion-dollar financial penalty for the wealthy drug dealer.

What If They Held A Debate In Miami And Nobody Talked About Latin America?

By Tim Padgett • Jul 1, 2019

Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. So when 20 Democratic presidential candidates gathered for debates in Miami last week, WLRN’s Americas editor Tim Padgett thought he'd hear more about Latin America policy. But as Padgett told WLRN’s Luis Hernandez, he and a lot of other South Floridians were disappointed.

Freak Summer Hailstorm Hits Mexico's Guadalajara

By Merrit Kennedy • Jul 1, 2019

Updated at 5:53 p.m. ET

People in Guadalajara, Mexico, woke up on Sunday to a thick blanket of ice over areas of their city, after a freak hailstorm that damaged houses and left cars partially buried.

This is particularly striking because it's the middle of summer. In the past month, temperatures most days have hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit or over.

America Won't Solve Immigration By Loathing Latin Americans. Ask The Irish.

By Tim Padgett • Jun 12, 2019

COMMENTARY

A conservative Facebook friend in my native Indiana recently endorsed a meme that features right-wing radio rage-monger Rush Limbaugh saying today’s immigrants want to “erase America.”

Trump: U.S., Mexico Reach Deal To Avoid New Tariffs

By Ayesha Rascoe • Jun 7, 2019

Updated Saturday at 10:30 a.m. ET

A day after U.S. and Mexico officials announced an agreement to avert tariffs — set to begin on Monday — affecting billions of dollars in imports from Mexico, President Trump took a victory lap on Twitter.

Under a joint agreement released by State Department officials, Mexico will assist the United States in curbing migration across the border by deploying its national guard troops through the country, especially its southern border.

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