By Jorge Fuentelsaz El Paso, Texas, May 11 (EFE).- The United States Border Patrol on Thursday detained hundreds of potential asylum-seekers who had been staying at encampments on US soil just south of two gates of the border wall outside this border city. The operation was carried out just hours before the expiration of Title …
By Jorge Fuentelsaz El Paso, Texas, May 9 (EFE).- A Jesuit priest at this US border city’s Sacred Heart Church, around which roughly 1,000 migrants have set up an encampment, told Efe the situation amounts to a “humanitarian crisis.” “There are more than a thousand people outside the parish church, and all of the shelters …
By Jorge Fuentelsaz New York, Apr 29 (EFE).- Fifty years ago, Lower Manhattan’s Bowery neighborhood was a bleak landscape of buildings in disrepair and vacant lots treated as garbage dumps. That state of affairs spurred the late Liz Christy and her friends to found the Green Guerrillas, a group of activist gardeners who took it …
By Jorge Fuentelsaz New York, Jan 17 (EFE).- Former Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna appeared on Tuesday in court on the first day of selecting the jury that will decide whether he is guilty of drug trafficking and taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for facilitating that group’s operations. Garcia Luna, …
By Jorge Fuentelsaz New York, Dec 15 (EFE).- After dark between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the leafy streets of Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights are packed with sightseers drawn by the extravagant Christmas decorations that have made the neighborhood of stately homes one of New York City’s top holiday attractions. Minutes before sundown, traffic cops take …