Photo source: The Guardian By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront An estimated 225,000 migrants are presently stranded in Mexico, according to reporting by Associated Press, including people from Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Eastern Europe, South Asia and sub‑Saharan Africa, most waiting for an opportunity to cross into the United States. In 2023, Mexico received a record number of requests for refuge, a 31 per cent increase over 2022, as noted by Reuters. Although only a small share of migrants formally request refuge, which allows them to transit through the country without being detained by immigration authorities, this remains one of the few official statistics that illustrates the magnitude of people on the move. Asylum seekers facing backlogs from overwhelmed immigration authorities have grown desperate. In September 2023, dozens of migrants tried to force their way into a government facility, resulting in injuries, reported by El País. For many years, mig...

Photo source: VOA News By Naveed Qazi, | Editor, Globe Upfront An unmarked mass grave has been found in the region of Veracruz in Mexico in September 2018. It is believed that the site could possibly contain remains of around 500 victims, according to an advocacy group, Solecito. Other investigators believe that the figure could be up to 174. It is one of the largest mass graves found in the country. According to local inputs, there have been around 32 burial pits in the site, and the bodies may have been buried at the site, two years ago, since 2018. The site is on a narrow isthmus between the Gulf of Mexico and the Alvarado Lagoon, about an hour southeast of Veracruz. Arbolillo, a small fishing village, is the nearest inhabited point. A criminal group had sent a map to Solecito, where they indicated that the current mass burial site contained remains of more than 500 bodies. It has marked a national crisis, as many families rushed to a morgue, for clues, that could help th...

Photo source: ABC News By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront The campaign of 2018 Mexican Presidential election was the bloodiest its people have seen in decades. It is because one hundred thirty individuals were  killed, in recent times, during the campaigns.  At the same time, it had been the largest election in Mexico’s history, with about 3,400 posts up for grabs. This time around, voting had been done in over 3000 districts. A grey-haired, baseball buff, Lopez Obrador won around 53% of the total vote. The Associated Press called it a ‘landslide win’. The press wanted sensationalism at his win, but mixed reactions have come. Some regional analysts call him a ‘populist’ and ‘autocrat’, who doesn’t understand the complexity of Mexican politics, with its different economic and political approaches, in the last thirty years. Others fear that he might eventually turn around as the next Hugo Chavez, a protectionist, and a supporter of nationalisation. On t...