Arturo Sarukhán

Just after halftime in their country’s match against South Africa Thursday afternoon, Mexican embassy officials were nervous

For years, the tournament was expected to deliver ​a windfall for America's travel industry, now grappling with declining international visitors amid what rights groups describe as a climate of fear

The action gets under way at Mexico City's iconic Estadio Azteca on Thursday, with co-host Mexico taking on South Africa at 3 pm local time (3 am Friday, Beijing time), launching a sprawling, nearly six-week-long spectacle that will culminate in the final at New Jersey's 82,500-seat Met-Life Stadium on July 19

FIFA President Gianni Infantino brushed off criticism over World Cup visa issues and sky-high ticket prices on June 10 in a defiant eve-of-tournament press conference

With USMCA on ice, Mexico City is looking across the Atlantic for new partners

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has consistently denied any links to organized crime or cartels, characterizing allegations of cartel control as “absolutely false” and maintaining that her administration acts with full sovereignty

Sheinbaum’s latest rebuke came on Tuesday, a day after 49-year-old Mexican citizen Alejandro Cabrera Clemente died in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency detention centre in Louisiana

But last week, the fabled criminal met his death not because of a dramatic betrayal on behalf of one of his loyal gunmen, or even due to a cocaine trafficking operation being intercepted by watchful authorities

More than 70 people — including 25 National Guard members — were killed in the violence which followed El Mencho's death

Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, nicknamed ‘El Mencho’, carrying a reward of $15 million hunted down in a massive operation involving Mexico's authorities after tip off from one of his romantic partners — information that reportedly helped officials quickly plan the raid

In the post, the White House makes no mention of the key role slavery played in the war and glorifies the wider “Manifest Destiny” period, which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans from their land

The order gives the administration broad discretion to impose duties on imports from countries deemed to be supplying Cuba, dramatically raising the stakes for Mexico as it weighs how far it can go without triggering economic retaliation from Washington — or worse

His comments came days after threatening tariffs on any country supplying Cuba with oil

The order gives the administration broad discretion to impose duties on imports from countries deemed to be supplying Cuba, dramatically raising the stakes for Mexico as it weighs how far it can go without triggering economic retaliation from Washington — or worse

Trump supporters gathered in Washington on January 6, 2021 after the president urged them to protest Congress's certification of his election defeat to Joe Biden

But despite the public assurances from Sheinbaum and Trump’s apparent affection for her leadership, business leaders reliant on peace and stability are increasingly anxious

The incident has left Cuban residents questioning what Maduro’s capture could mean for their future

His removal is seen as the most assertive US intervention to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and followed months of pressure from Washington

Following the devastating attacks on Venezuelan military bases and surgical apprehension of leader Nicolás Maduro by US Special Forces, Cuba seems very much in the Trump administration’s sights