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U.S.-bound caravan of more than 500 migrants, mostly Central Americans and Haitians, and including many Venezuelans, embarked on foot from southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sept. 4. Many had been stranded for months in Tapachula and were extremely frustrated. They proceeded on the highway north amid the sweltering heat and tropical storms. National Guard and immigration authorities stopped and detained many of them the next day, Sept. 5th in the town of Huixtla, about 25 miles north of Tapachula. Mexican officials say a record number of migrants are now stuck in Tapachula and environs.

Tens of thousands of Haitian migrants are trapped in southern Mexico

There are so many Haitians in Tapachula that the Mexican city can seem like a slice of the Caribbean. Under U.S. pressure, Mexican authorities won’t let them leave.
A caravan of migrants head north towards the U.S.-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Court halts use of health order to expel migrant families along the U.S.-Mexico border

Thousands of pro-choice activists, including feminist groups from the U.S. and Chile, demonstrate in favor of decriminalizing abortion, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Waving their iconic green handkerchiefs, the demonstrators are demanding the issue be included in this year's parliamentary agenda. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Across Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosened

Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard,, left, accompanied by, Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaks at a U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue meeting in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. and Mexico restart high-level economic talks after 4 years

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro carry Brazil's national flag along Copacabana Beach on Independence Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Thousands rally for Brazil’s Bolsonaro as he blasts high court, threatens constitutional crisis

As El Salvador adopts bitcoin, its young president is dismantling democracy

Hurricane Grace crosses over Mexico’s Gulf coast

Appeals court refuses to delay resumption of Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

Kendall Jenner, Michael Jordan, the Rock. How American celebrities are changing Mexico’s tequila industry

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An ancient Aztec temple, foreground, a Spanish colonial church, top center, apartments, top left, and a modern government office constructed in the 1960s, right, stand in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The plaza honors Indigenous Mexico, Spanish colonialism and the “modern” mixed-race Mexico that resulted from the conquest 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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500 years later, Mexico recalls but doesn’t celebrate Spanish conquest

The defeat of the Aztecs in 1521 still stirs profound disquiet in the national psyche.

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