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    Global shares at 14-month highs as concern over rate hikes eases

    16 Jun 2023

    Global shares rose to 14-month highs on Friday as investors took the view that the Federal Reserve may not need to raise rates much more, while the dollar headed for its biggest weekly slide since January. The MSCI All-World index was up 0.2 per cent, around its highest since mid-April 2022. This has been an intense week of

    Two very different leaders face off over tariffs

    05 Jun 2019

    In Mexico, a leftist president has steadfastly vowed to respect the “human rights” of Central American migrants and offered them visas and working permits. In the United States, a conservative president has repeatedly called the migrant influx an “invasion” and threatened to close off the border with Mexico to stop it.

    Don’t turn migrants’ dream into nightmare

    26 Jun 2019

    When the image of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy, rattled collective human conscience and made global headlines after he drowned on Sept.2, 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea, it was expected that the approach of governments and people towards refugees and migrants would turn more humane.

    Six police officers killed in northern Mexico ambush

    27 Jun 2022

    Nuevo Leon state police said the patrol was outnumbered in the pre-dawn attack on a highway leading to the Colombia border crossing. The force said the officers performed "heroically” in the attack.

    Mexico’s other border is rattled by armed crackdown

    24 Jun 2019

    The rafts, made of plywood planks lashed to fat inner tubes, float back and forth all day, piloted by camareros who push poles deep into the riverbed to guide their vessels in a rough echo of Venetian gondoliers. The cargo depends on the direction. From Mexico to Guatemala, it’s usually cans of cooking oil or bags of rice,

    Trump’s hardball tactics to hit Mexico adversely

    18 Jun 2019

    Despite the last-minute deal between the United States and Mexico, President Donald Trump continues to hold out the threat of across-the-board tariffs if the number of Central American migrants arriving at the US border isn’t significantly reduced in the coming months. Playing hardball with Mexico scores Trump

    US summer work visa programme exploits foreigners

    07 Aug 2019

    If you’re visiting a beach resort or a theme park this summer, you’re bound to encounter one of the more than 100,000 young workers who arrive in the US every year on J-1 Summer Work Travel (SWT) visas. In June, my team and I headed to the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, where we spoke with

    We are seeing a flood of toxic speech and attitudes

    06 Aug 2019

    Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood — a dangerous surge of muddy, debris-filled water so overwhelming it comes only once a century. In our political world, we are now seeing a 100-year flood of toxic speech and attitudes. The sludge washing ashore

    Trump wants Guatemalans like me to stay home

    25 Aug 2019

    I recently went to a parents’ meeting at my children’s elementary school in the rural town of Aguacatan, Guatemala, a few hours from the Mexico border. As usual, I was one of the only men there. This disparity has nothing to do with machismo or Latin gender roles; it’s that there just aren’t many men in Aguacatan.

    Salma Hayek reveals film studio wanted Cameron Diaz to play Mexican role in ‘Desperados’

    21 Oct 2020

    The Mexican actor with Lebanese roots has previously been vocal about discrimination faced by Latina actors in Hollywood. She has also publicly spoken out against Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of making advances to her.

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