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Our new documentary capturing a family's journey through the Darien Gap has just been released. It's been more than a year of hard work to bring this story to life.
Thanks to the Flores Calderon family for letting us come with them.
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We sat down for an interview with
@BArevalodeLeon
, the candidate which, together with his party SEMILLA, Guatemala's attorney general's office is trying to suspend from the Guatemalan elections.
@palabrasdeabajo
and Ampa Rodriguez produced this, Ricardo Lopez filmed and edited.
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Claudia Sheinbaum has filled Mexico City's main plaza - the zocalo - without too much effort, and there's still an hour and a half to go till she's scheduled to arrive and officially kick off her presidential campaign.
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President Lopez Obrador this morning:
"There’s peace and calm in all Mexico."
Reporter: "Including in Aguililla?"
AMLO: "Everywhere there is peace and calm."
We went to Aguililla for our documentary & found something very different. 👇
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As the Mexican delegation sits down to talk migration with the US Administration in DC - on the Southern Mexico border a ‘caravan’ of (AP says) around 1000 people is intercepted by Mex officials.
Perhaps the biggest signal they could give of compliance with Pres. Trump’s wishes.
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Today Mexico City is announcing its plan to re-open in the future, but many parts of the capital never shut down in the first place.
Our report from Iztapalapa, the most populous district in the country —& with the most cases of
#Covid_19
. Despite the pandemic, life here goes on:
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Xochitl Galvez has been a real shot in the arm for Mexico's opposition, now, after a muddled process, she's just been chosen as the candidate for a coalition of parties. Who is she? We take a squizz:
Cinthya Chavez edited this, Mireya Lopez produced:
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This video shows a confrontation between the Guatemalan army, using sticks and shooting teargas, and a group of Hondurans from the caravan who are trying to pass.
#CaravanaMigrante
#CaravanaMigrante2021
#Caravana2021
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We spent a month filming in Mexico City's hospitals, ambulances, markets & barrios as the virus ripped through the capital.
Our documentary, just out on
@AJEnglish
:
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Reports coming out that the Supreme Court in
#Venezuela
has approved the Attorney General's request to stop opposition leader Juan Guaido from leaving the country & to freeze his bank accounts.
The gov't is clearly upping the ante after Guaido declared himself interim President
TSJ aprueba medidas solicitadas por Tarek William Saab de prohibir salida del país a
@jguaido
y congelar sus cuentas.
Estas medidas son, en sí, un agravio a su inmunidad.
Durante la declaración de Maikel Moreno hubo problemas técnicos. VTV y otros canales lo sacaron del aire.
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Here is what
#Guayaquil
,
#Ecuador
looks like right now. Our report for
@AJEnglish
:
Local authorities told us they're getting up to 200 calls a day to pick up bodies. They can't keep up and dead loved ones are being left in houses, cars, the streets.
#EcuadorEnEmergencia
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Hoy, un periodista me contó del caso de su hijo Cesar Galvez Olivares, un comerciante. Lo secuestraron en Guadalajara este Junio. Su papa cree que agentes de la fiscalia de Jalisco estuvieron involucrados. Si alguien le interesa hacer esta nota porfa DM. Quiere darle difusion
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Seeing lots of tweets about Mexico’s National Guard today throwing stones & beating on people in the caravan.
What we saw was quite a restrained use of force by the GN who seemed under orders to block, but not hit people. Some teargas, but not the amount I’ve seen elswhere.
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AMLO's economic plan is to pay for programs, grants etc by cutting out corruption. But his only strategy for doing that appears to be leading by example. Does he really believe that under his presidency Mexico's politicians will be shamed into going straight?
#DebateINE
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You don't know what you have till it's gone. No country I have been to has a broadcasting service anywhere close to the BBC. If Britain loses it, it will be an act of absolute self sabotage.
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“In Mexico there isn't independent and professional journalism." —
@lopezobrador_
, Mexico's president.
What a breathtaking generalization towards our many Mexican colleagues who face great danger to document the issues in this country.
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This video is from before the explosion. Soldiers looking on as villagers fill up on gasoline from the illegally tapped pipeline. National media are saying the community had suffered shortages.
Video from the Mexican army.
#Tlahuelilpan
#explosion
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When Enrique Peña Nieto married soap opera star Angelica Rivera it gave him some great publicity in his push for the presidency. Now, 2 months after his term ended, they're divorcing. There were many who claimed it was all just a PR stunt. Harder to deny now.
#AngelicaRivera
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A cartel middleman I interviewed in
#Culiacan
a few months back said that they saw AMLO as an honest man, someone who wanted peace & so wouldn't interfere with their business.
Added to that was the threat that if he did come after them, they would respond with everything they had
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Haitians trying to cross the river from Mexico to the US. But Mexican authorities have opened a dam upstream (as they do regularly) and the water is dangerously deep.
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Presidente Lopez Obrador hoy en la mañanera:
Hay paz y tranquilidad en el país
Periodista: ¿Incluye la parte de Aguililla?
AMLO: En todos lados, hay tranquilidad, hay paz
Nosotros fuimos a Aguililla para hacer un documental y encontramos algo diferente:
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For the moment,
@BArevalodeLeon
and the Semilla party are still running in the presidential elections but it's been a crazy few days in Guatemala as the Attorney General's office has tried to suspend them.
Our report.
@palabrasdeabajo
& Ampa Rodriguez produced, Ric Lopez shot &
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Aguililla has become ground zero in the fight between the cartels in Michoacan; a town under siege & abandoned by authorities.
It's all but cut off from the rest of the state, but we managed to get there this week to file this exclusive report:
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The US is investigating Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, prosecutors have revealed for the first time.
He's already been accused of involvement in the drugs trade during a case the US is bringing against a trafficker.
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A small & very brave group of parents of the disappeared have been camping outside the state gov. building in Ciudad Victoria for 3 days demanding justice for their children.
Local media aren't covering them. Pls any journos I know interested, let me know & will put you in touch
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AMLO says that he endorsed the decision to release the son of 'El Chapo' for the good of the civilian population. We don't want war, he says.
It's one of those presidency defining moments: whatever happened behind the scenes, the government gave in to a criminal group.
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the scene at an improvised river crossing between Mexico and the US. the people in the makeshift camp stateside have rigged up a rope to get across to buy food in Mexico and back again.
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The mexican foreign ministry has just said that Evo Morales’s plane is now 7 hours from Mexico on a ‘technical stop’.
Flight tracker shows it as in Paraguay.
That’s in the opposite direction to his intended destination - Mexico.
This is getting more complicated.
#EvoMorales
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Mexico City police force is only sending out female officers to cover the march against violence towards women today.
The officers I chatted to said it’s to reduce the chance of confrontations.
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Mexico Built a Fake Aztec Temple Instead of Fixing the Real Sacred One - VICE. love this from
@ngjanowitz
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If you watch one piece from our Mexico
#Covid_19
coverage, would appreciate it if this was it.
The work of Mexican nurses to make sure relatives' letters get to critically ill patients, and to read them aloud to those in ICU.
Full report here:
Clip:
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Our report on a fairly mental video which purports to be the Jalisco New Generation Cartel showing off their fire / manpower while the president was in their zone.
Learnt a new phrase from
@ioangrillo
on this one: 'Violent lobbying'.
Edited by Ricardo Lopez
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Interesting point from
#Cienfuegos
court docs: a US judge issued a warrant for his arrest in August, 2019. But Mex President AMLO says he was only made aware that there was an investigation involving
#Cienfuegos
2 weeks ago. Doesn't speak to huge trust between governments.
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at San Ysidro port of entry, Tijuana, Ukranian refugees are being allowed into the US with very little delay. this is the first family we saw go through after showing their passports
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It's the anniversary of the death of my favourite Mexican writer, Jorge Ibargüengoitia.
If you haven't read Maten al León, or Los relámpagos de Agosto... well, you've been frittering away your time on this planet, that's all.
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Can’t get over this. Mexican President AMLO meeting with the mother of jailed drug lord El Chapo - AND on the birthday of Ovidio Guzman - her grandson.
It was Ovidio’s brief capture last year that led to a fullscale battle in Culiacan - and humiliation for federal forces.
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Mexico is ready to offer political asylum to Julian Assange if necessary, says AMLO. "Assange is a journalist and deserves a chance, I am in favor of pardoning him," he said in his morning presser.
#Assange
#AssangeCase
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Our documentary on Mexico's fight against COVID has just been recognized by the New York Film Festival w a 🥈&🥉medal. Congrats to
@VANEVI9
@paperjourno
@leslieatkins
@Andalalucha
Ampa Rodriguez, Gustavo Huerta. You all did huge work on this. here it is:
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It's official; after 25 years, the GM autoplant in Silao has an independent workers union — fruit of the UMSCA trade deal and a Mexican labour reform. There are hopes this is a point of change for Mexican labour rights in the automotive sector.
Our piece coming up soon
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At least thirteen journalists have been killed this year in Mexico, making it one of the most lethal countries for press worldwide.
Our new documentary, 'Silenced' looks into why that is happening. It premiers at La Cineteca Nacional, Sala 10, next Monday, 7.30pm. Entry is free.
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The
#COVID__19
crisis in Mexico is pushing more people into extreme poverty.
Our producer
@paperjourno
went to 16 soup kitchens across the capital. All of them told us that lines have grown. Some are serving 3 or 4 times as many meals as before.
Our report:
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Our report for
@AJEnglish
on the caravan of around 6 000 people, heading from Honduras, and the confrontration with Guatemalan police and soldiers today:
🎞
@VANEVI9
#CaravanaMigrante
#CaravanaMigrante2021
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In pure blowing-own-trumpet mode, also got a🥈for best news correspondent in the New York Film & TV festival. Obviously just the figurehead for multiple
@AJEnglish
team efforts from Bolivia to Mexico. many thanks, team mates.
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More info on this: migrants tried to break the police barrier at KM 177 in the village of Vado Hondo, Guatemala. Migrants got angry when they were told by authorities that they had to go back to the border and enter Guatemalan territory legally.
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6 months ago we followed ambulance workers, ICU nurses & victims as COVID began to grip Mexico. This Christmas we went back to find out how those same people had coped with the rest of the year:
🎥+🎞
@VANEVI9
🎬
@paperjourno
& Ampa Rodriguez
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AMLO now: The army & navy are pillars of the Mexican state — so strong that the detention of one (ex) defense minister on narco-trafficking charges, doesn't make them weaker.
Plenty might disagree with that. Cienfuegos was the top armed forces official for 6 yrs.
#Cienfuegos
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Mexico's foreign minister
@m_ebrard
has confirmed that 6000 of its new National Guard will head to its Southern border with Guatemala as part of its efforts to stem migration and avoid US tariffs.
This is quite a militarized force, made up of soldiers, marines & federal police.
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Not every Mexican journalist is clean, or every publication credible — the industry here has serious problems. I can understand the frustration with that.
But to write the whole profession off, including those who've died trying to report the truth, seems deeply disrespectful.
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Within 60 days
#Mexico
prosecutors will bring charges related to the
#Odebrecht
corruption scandal, says Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero.
About a dozen other Latin American countries have pursued their own officials related to the scandal, but Mexico has always resisted.
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Under a new plan, US authorities are now flying Central American migrants deep into South Mexico to prevent them trying to cross into the states again. From there, Mexico is dropping them at the Guatemalan border.
we went there to talk to them:
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Not a comment on the caravan, or the government policy of stopping it, but a note on this from an eyewitness perspective. Any journos who saw differently, am listening.
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Mexico sees the highest monthly murder toll on record this March.
Obviously
#Covid_19
is not slowing down the violence (so far).
via
@el_reportero
#MexicoSeQuedaEnCasa
#Mexico
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AMLO promises 2 million new jobs in the next 9 months, even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
"I'm optimistic", he says.
#Covid_19
#Covid_19mx
#Covid_19
#informeAMLO
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We did see quite a few stones thrown at the National Guard
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Mexico has just set a new daily record for COVID cases: 8438 new ones.
We spent a month talking to doctors, paramedics, ordinary Mexicans and the coronavirus czar to ask why the country can't seem to bend down the curve.
Our documentary:
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congratulations
@VANEVI9
, Ampa Rodriguez,
@paperjourno
,
@Andalalucha
& Gus Huerta; our Mexico Covid Documentary was just awarded runner up by the OPC for best international affairs documentary.
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Really useful summary video on the cartel that everyone's talking about today: Jalisco Nueva Generación.
#CJNG
¿Cómo el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación pasó de ser un brazo armado del Cártel de Sinaloa a convertirse en una organización con presencia en 23 estados de México y varios países del mundo?
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At least 13 journalists have been killed in Mexico this year. That's more than any other country in the world bar Ukraine.
Our film for
@AJFaultLines
with
@KaviChek
@JManzano_Media
@MAVEGAO
@felyxmarquez
,
@AdiHaspel
&
@LailaAlarian
explains how and why:
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luis villagran, one of the caravan organizers, has just said they're making a deal with the mexican government that everyone in the caravan will be given visas.but those visas will be processed in 6 different states:
we've confirmed this deal with mexican migration authorities.
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Mexico is telling the US it will curb the flow of migration.
But we've found a secret route: people smugglers taking 'caravans' of trucks packed with people across a little guarded point in Mexico's Southern border. Here's the story:
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the caravan's just had a meeting in which they decided not to take up the government's offer of visas for all to work in mexico in return for the break up the caravan & taking them to 6 different states.
distrust in authorities & desire to keep moving seem drivers of the choice
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Was just given this by an airstewardess who helped us (a lot) with our bags at Port Au Prince airport.
"Don't forget Haiti" she said.
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They’ve found us! The ‘Middle Easterners’ in the caravan.
(One from Mexico, one from Spain and one from England.)
Al Jazeera, funded by the jihadist regime of
#Qatar
, has a team embedded in the illegal immigrant
#caravan
from Honduras.
#propaganda
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As the world celebrates Press Freedom Day, Mexico contemplates a year in which already, 7 reporters have died. Many more are at risk.
We followed one of them
@LILIARAMIREZ79
through her working day in Tijuana.
With:
@tijuanapress
@VANEVI9
full report:
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"En Coahuila te pueden decir que no hay cartel. En Coahuila los policías de élite son el cartel”
If you're interested in Mexico and security/social issues you must read this investigation from
@inigo_av
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Scoop: 3 months ago, the Mexican government signed an agreement accepting UN help in giving human rights training to the new National Guard.
But UN sources have told Aljazeera that not 1 member of the Guard has got that training yet.
Our report 👇
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The bishop of Matagalpa, has also tweeted that authorities stopped him from establishing medical centers and a call center to help deal with
#COVID
ー19
“El Minsa me acaba de notificar que no puedo llevar adelante el Proyecto de los Centros de Prevención Médica, ni si quiera el Call Center. Quiero dejar constancia ante el pueblo que nosotros como Diócesis quisimos trabajar por la salud de nuestro pueblo y no nos han permitido”.
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A lot of us talking about the US & its externalization of the border wall in our coverage of the caravan.Should we not also be giving pride of place to president Juan Orlando Hernandez & his impact on the rule of law, human rights & the economy in Honduras?
#CaravanaMigrante2021
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Mexico's president taking a v. different line on
#COVID
ー19 — actually urging citizens to go out to eat:
"I’ll tell you when not to go out. But if you can … take your family to the restaurants, to eateries because it strengthens our families and our economy."
#Coronavid19
Hoy el presidente López Obrador comió en Oaxaca. En su Facebook subió un video donde pidió a la población no dejar de salir, que él indicará cuándo ya no hacerlo.
Más en:
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the mexican government's plan with this caravan seems to be let people advance, but only on foot. Checkpoints like this one make sure that taxis & buses aren't picking them up. That way people are getting worn out & the US border is still months away at their current rate.
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At least 66 people died yesterday in a pipeline blast in Hidalgo state. They'd gathered in the afternoon to collect fuel from a burst pipeline. More than 70 others are injured. Our report here for
@AJENews
:
#Tlalhuelilpan
#tomaclandestina
#ConLaTragediaNo
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Marcelo Ebrad, Mexico's foreign minister: "They’re [the gunmakers] developing models for narcos. So that they use them for narcotrafficking. They’re designed for that. They have different aesthetic and functional features."
Stood out for me in this morning press conference.
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Domestic violence appears to be on the rise with
#COVID
ー19 in Mexico:
- National network of women's shelters has got 60% more calls for help.
- But the shelters say their gov't funding has been held up just as the crisis hit.
Our story produced by
@Andalalucha
:
#COVID19mexico
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What a bonkers story — US ex special forces soldier launches seaborne raid with a few dozen men to try and overthrow Nicolas Maduro in
#Venezuela
. Doesn't work.
Our piece:
#Venezuela
#SilvercorpUSA
#JordanGoudreau
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#AMLO
signals intention to end Mexico's 30+ years of pursuing free trade and privatization in no uncertain terms.
In his inauguration speech he's blamed everything from poverty, to corruption, to violence on "Neoliberalism". It has to be the most repeated word in the speech.
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A fifth media worker has been killed in mexico in the little we've seen of 2022.
Ernesto Islas is also the third journalist to be murdered in the border city of Tijuana.
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Really can’t be nice hearing your succesor talking right in front of you about how everything you’d done was rubbish.
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AMLO drops a real bombshell in his morning press conference. George Clinton, famed Funkadelic band leader, was actually also responsible for beginning the US-Mexico border wall.
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Guatemalan authorities say that more than 3000 Hondurans have been bussed back — that's half the number estimated to have been in the caravan. The rest seem to now be travelling in smaller groups. Our report:
#CaravanaMigrante2021
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this is happening not just to milenio but other media groups also working in Michoacan.
threats towards journalists as they try to report in zones completely under the control of criminal groups.
It makes covering one of the worst situations i've seen in mexico incredibly tough
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