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LERDO DE TEJADA, Mexico (Reuters) - Residents of a Mexican town set fire to the municipal palace overnight on Friday in a violent protest after local police shot a young man in the neck, according to his relatives, after he did not stop his car at a checkpoint.

Residents of a Mexican town set fire to the municipal palace overnight on Friday in a violent protest after local police shot a young man in the neck, according to his relatives, after he did not... -January 20, 2024 at 05:53 pm EST - MarketScreener

Residents of a Mexican town set fire to the municipal palace overnight on Friday in a violent protest after local police shot a young man in the neck, according to his relatives, after he did not stop his car at a checkpoint. National media reported that police shot dead 27-year-old Brandon Arellano, the son of a local teacher, as he arrived outside his grandmother's house. "Once he had parked, they opened fire against the car and killed him instantly, shooting him in the jugular lik...

(This July 28 story adds dropped word in last paragraph) By Tamara Corro ACAYUCAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who

ACAYUCAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who escaped from a stifling trailer being driven by a people smuggler in the coastal state of Veracruz, officials said on Thursday.

In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathered in the predawn hours on Thursday to hold the first funerals for migrants who died last month while being smuggled in a suffocating trailer in San Antonio, Texas.

By Tamara Corro and Jose Cortes San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico (Reuters) - In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathere...

San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico (Reuters) - In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathered in the predawn hours on Thursday to hold the first funerals for migrants who died last month while being smuggled in a suffocating trailer in San Antonio, Texas.

NAHUALA, Guatemala/ATEXQUILAPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Some of the youngest migrants thought to have died in a suffocating trailer in Texas this week set off from poor towns in Guatemala and Mexico, following in the footsteps of relatives seeking a better life in the United States.

U.S.-bound migrants, mostly from Central America and the Caribbean, said on Thursday that a Mexican government crackdown was keeping them "prisoner" in the south of the country.