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Added on the 13/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Mexico City, Apr 13 (EFE), (Camera: Ulises Andrade Vela) .- The Government of Mexico has stated that it has 12,000 people, including soldiers, immigration agents and other officials, deployed to stop the migratory wave and especially the trafficking of minors.
Tapachula (Mexico), Jul 15 (EFE) (camera: Juan Manuel Blanco) .- More than 2,000 migrants, many of them Haitians, remain stranded in Tapachula, in southeastern Mexico.
San Cristobal de las Casas, Nov 6 (EFE).- Torrential rains and a cold front have killed at least 21 people and affected around 80,0000 in southeastern Mexico in the wake of cyclonic storm Eta, which has left a trail of destruction across Central America over the past few days, with hundreds reported dead or missing. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, currently presided by Mexico, on Friday urged that the North American country be included in the appeal for international assistance due to the devastation caused by Eta in Central America. (Camera: MITZI FUENTES GOMEZ).SHOT LIST: THE AFTERMATH OF THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION ETA IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO.SOUND BITES: JUANA ALVAREZ, RESIDENT OF SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS AND PABLO REYES, DIRECTOR OF CIVIL PROTECTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION:1. JUANA ALVAREZ, RESIDENT OF SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS. - We were going to spend the night on that truck but we saw that it was impossible. We then had to carry all of our children out and leave.2. PABLO REYES, DIRECTOR OF CIVIL PROTECTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY.- They are landslides caused by floods from the hurricane Eta, which now has degraded to a tropical depression. It is what affects the city of San Cristobal, especially the upper areas.
US soldiers install barriers at the San Ysidro port of entry on the US-Mexico border in the town of Tijuana, in anticipation of the arrival of a caravan of Central American migrants, slowly making their way through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States. IMAGES
Migrants attempt to pull down a section of a barbed wire fence installed by Texas authorities on the Mexico-US border. The tensions on the border come amid an ongoing legal back-and-forth over a Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. IMAGES