By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Lizbeth Diaz EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) -U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week. At the same…
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-year long COVID-19 policy that blocked people crossing from seeking asylum. The policy, known as Title 42,…
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. retail giant Walmart wants to get on top of Mexico’s fintech market with its Cashi digital wallet, yet analysts say its drive is strewn with potential pitfalls due to the proliferation of risky clients in the largely untapped market. Walmart de Mexico (Walmex) in April said it…
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Fortitude Capital, founded by former Goldman Sachs partner Antonio Esteves, Brazilian bank BTG Pactual and Portuguese asset manager Atrium, has launched its first fund with a target size of up to 500 million euros ($550 million). Esteves said on Tuesday that, though focused on investing in Portugal, the fund…
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Mexican government on Monday set out fresh details of a plan to attract businesses to a corridor straddling a narrow isthmus of southern Mexico, part of a larger push to pump investment into the relatively poor region. The plan, called the Inter-Oceanic Corridor, will include 10 new industrial…
By Ted Hesson and Mike Blake SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -The Biden administration and Texas state government are sending reinforcements to the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible increase in illegal immigration when COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42 are set to end on Thursday. Hundreds of specialized investigative agents and air marshals from the…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave the U.S. dollar a vote on confidence on Monday after he was asked if a weakening greenback might spur a move to diversify Mexico’s foreign currency reserves. “We are going to continue considering the dollar as the world’s principal currency,” Lopez Obrador told a…
By Brad Brooks and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said. The gunman, whom authorities said they think acted alone and whose motive was not yet known, was killed by a police officer after he…
(Reuters) – Air monitoring around an extinguished fire at the Shell Plc’s chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas, showed no harmful levels of chemicals in the air, the company said on Saturday, added that there was no threat to the surrounding community. The fire broke out shortly before 3 p.m. CDT (2000 GMT) on Friday…
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will finalize by May 11 a new regulation that will deny asylum to many migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the same day sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the border are set to end, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday. Under the new regulation, migrants will…
