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End of Title 42: Migrants race to cross US border before rules shift

May 2023

Times of Malta •

'Very afraid': migrants race to cross US border before rules shift

Dasling Sanchez rests on a piece of cardboard with her two children near a gas station in Brownsville, Texas, a border town where hundreds of migrants have arrived ahead of immigration restrictions ending, which some fear may actually complicate entry.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden's administration will lift Title 42, the strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants, including asylum seekers, based on the COVID pandemic.
Although the looming expiration has raised f...

Mother of migrant killed by SUV in Texas vows to fight for son's dream

May 2023

International Business Times •

Mother Of Migrant Killed By SUV In Texas Vows To Fight For Son's Dream

As she waited in a migrant processing center in Texas this weekend, Maria Cabarcas says she felt a sudden sense of "desperation," and found herself crying for no reason."A lady prayed to me, she told me to give my son's life to God and I didn't understand why," she told her husband in a WhatsApp audio message that he later played for AFP.The next day, she learned that her 23-year-old son, Enyerbeth -- who had been separated from her after they crossed the border together -- was among the eight p...
Grupo Milenio •

"Voy a luchar en su memoria": madre de migrante atropellado en Texas

María Cabarcas sintió un "desespero" repentino. Retenida en un centro de migrantes en Texas, lloraba sin motivo. Al día siguiente le dijeron que su hijo, que había cruzado con ella a Estados Unidos desde México y la esperaba afuera, había muerto embestido por una camioneta.El domingo, una veintena de personas, varios de ellos migrantes venezolanos, se encontraban en una parada de autobuses en la ciudad texana de Brownsville cuando un residente local los atropelló. Ocho fallecieron.María, una ven...
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Trump Set To Seize People's Homes On Mexico Border To Build Wall

Feb 2026

barrons •

Trump Set To Seize People's Homes On Mexico Border To Build Wall

President Donald Trump's administration gave Nayda Alvarez five days to decide whether to let a US-Mexico border wall run through her back yard.If she refuses, she says, her house along the Rio Grande in Texas will be expropriated, just like that.Trump's obsession with keeping undocumented foreigners from entering the United States and expelling the ones already in it helped get him elected to a second term in 2024.That crackdown -- including plans to seal the border with Mexico more tightly --...

US courts now a high-risk venue for immigrants

June 2025

Dawn •

US courts now a high-risk venue for immigrants

HOUSTON: Minutes after an immigration judge rejected his asylum case earlier this week, Oscar Gato Sanchez was arrested as he exited a federal courthouse in Houston.
“I’m a Cuban citizen unjustly arrested,” he said as plainclothes officers led him away on Monday. His aunt Olaidys Sanchez, a 54-year-old legal resident of the United States, sobbed against a nearby wall.
Her nephew was placed in an unmarked gray vehicle that took off with sirens blaring, heading towards an immigrant detention cente...

Activists outside an immigration detention center in Houston, TX, called for the release of a woman from Belize after she was detained by law enforcement

June 2025

Images of demonstration outside a detention center for migrants in Houston, June 2025

SWI swissinfo.ch •

Manifestantes reclaman liberación de migrantes detenidos en Texas

A Margarita Ávila la detuvieron durante un altercado en la vía pública en Houston, Estados Unidos, que ella asegura no provocó. No hubo cargos, pero fue derivada a un centro de detención de migrantes y podría ser deportada. El viernes en la noche, decenas pidieron su liberación.Un grupo de personas, entre los que se encontraban familiares de Ávila, una mujer de 50 años originaria de Belice, llegaron hasta un centro de detención en Houston, Texas, sur de Estados Unidos, para pedir la liberación d...

Latinos in Houston claim against Trump's immigration policies

Feb 2025

Raw Story •

Latino community in Texas protests against Trump migrant deportations

Hundreds of Latinos in Texas protested Sunday against U.S. President Donald Trump's push to deport migrants, urging him to "leave the people alone."Since the Republican retook office on January 20, his administration has announced plans to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, and authorized entry of immigration agents at "sensitive" locations, such as churches, schools and workplaces.On Sunday, Latino protesters -- many of Mexican, Honduran and Salvadoran descent -- marched to Hermann...

Juan, brother of a Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador's CECOT and then returned to Venezuela, stays in the US, hiding and still looking for a better future

June 2025

SWI swissinfo.ch •

Una familia venezolana en añicos por las deportaciones de Trump a El Salvador

La familia de Mercedes Yamarte está hecha añicos por las deportaciones ordenadas por Donald Trump. Sus tres hijos partieron a Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Ahora uno está encarcelado en El Salvador, otro se autodeportó a México y el tercero vive con miedo, escondido.La lluvia arrecia en un barrio de calles de arena de Maracaibo, a nueve horas de coche de Caracas. Allí vive Mercedes, en una pequeña casa de bloques y techo de zinc donde se respira tristeza.Su hijo mayor, Mervin José Y...
RFI •

Venezuelan family feels full force of Trump's crackdown

Houston (AFP) – Mercedes Yamarte's three sons fled Venezuela for a better life in the United States. Now one languishes in a Salvadoran jail, another "self-deported" to Mexico, and a third lives in hiding -- terrified US agents will crash the door at any moment. At her zinc-roofed home in a poor Maracaibo neighborhood, 46-year-old Mercedes blinks back tears as she thinks about her family split asunder by US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown."I wish I could go to s...

Migrants' perilous trip past buoys, razor wire to reach Texas (own domestic footage)

Aug 2023

SWI swissinfo.ch •

Ni boyas, ni cercas, ni alambres de púas detienen el paso de migrantes a EEUU

Con sus dos hijos en hombros, Wilfredo y Nataly se lanzan al río Bravo desde la orilla mexicana. El agua les llega a la cintura. Evitan la línea de boyas que el estado de Texas colocó para bloquear su paso y van rumbo a Estados Unidos.

Cruzan desde Piedras Negras, estado de Coahuila, y buscan la orilla opuesta en Eagle Pass, una ciudad del sur de Texas cuyo gobernador, el republicano Greg Abbott, ha militarizado para contener el ingreso de migrantes.



En Texas, el río Bravo o Grande es la...
barrons •

Migrants' Perilous Trip Past Buoys, Razor Wire To Reach Texas

With their two children on their shoulders, Wilfredo Riera and Nataly Barrionuevo wade into the Rio Grande from the Mexican shore, the water soon reaching their waists.The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.© Agence France-PresseCopyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

With their two children on their shoulders, Wilfredo Riera a...

Dilley, TX. Demonstration outside a detention center for migrant families

Jan 2026

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Diario Libre •

Familias migrantes denuncian encierro insalubre en Texas mientras piden asilo

Le llaman centro residencial familiar, pero se trata de un recinto en Texas donde familias migrantes con niños esperan encerradas por meses una respuesta a su pedido de asilo bajo las estrictas políticas de Donald Trump en Estados Unidos, con denuncias por condiciones las insalubres.En enero, en este centro ubicado en Dilley, sur del país y a poco más de 100 km de la frontera con México, estuvo el niño ecuatoriano de cinco años Liam Conejo y su padre Adrián, tras ser detenidos en Mineápol...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel •

Bugs in food and sickness haunt immigrants held in Texas

A detention center in rural Texas has become a harsh symbol of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, with disease breaking out among the throng of people held, including some families who entered the United States legally. The Dilley Immigration Processing Center sits in a small town of just 3,200 people, just about 85 miles (135 kilometers) from the Mexico border, but has become a grim global melting pot.Many detainees were picked up as their asylum claims were being processed or as t...
barrons •

Protesters Clash With Police At US Detention Center Housing 5-year-old Child

Texas state police officers on Wednesday used tear gas to disperse a demonstration outside a US immigration detention facility where protesters demanded the release of a 5-year-old Ecuadoran boy among others swept up in the Trump administration's immigration clampdown.The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.© Agence France-PresseCopyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Res...

After traveling alone to US, Guatemalan teens fear deportation

Oct 2025

barrons •

After Traveling Alone To US, Guatemalan Teens Fear Deportation

At age 15, I.B. fled poverty and a father who abused her in Guatemala. She emigrated without her parents to the United States -- like hundreds of children Donald Trump's administration recently tried to deport.Between October 2024 and August 2025, 28,867 unaccompanied minors entered the United States -- a 70 percent drop from the previous period, according to US Customs and Border Patrol.Hundreds are Guatemalans from impoverished indigenous communities, as shown by court documents recently obtai...
Diario El Mercurio •

"No quiero volver": niños migrantes de Guatemala temen deportación de Trump

A sus 15 años, I.B. huyó de la pobreza y de un padre que abusó de ella en Guatemala. Emigró sola a Estados Unidos, como cientos de niños que viven en albergues y que el gobierno de Donald Trump trató de deportar en bloque.


Entró a Estados Unidos, presumiblemente desde México, sin la compañía de un adulto ni estatus legal. Entre octubre de 2024 y agosto de 2025 se registraron 28.687 casos de menores migrantes «no acompañados«, 70 % menos que en el período previo.


Cientos son guatemaltecos,...

US citizens caught up in deportation dragnet

Oct 2025

INQUIRER.net •

US citizens caught up in deportation dragnet

HOUSTON — Leo Garcia Venegas was working at a construction site in Alabama when two immigration agents ran up to him and wrestled him to the ground.


“I’m a citizen. I’m a citizen,” he told them.


They didn’t believe it. He was handcuffed and detained for an hour before being released — with no apology, according to his lawyers.READ: US citizen in ICE detention released after family reports kidnapping“The officers have no warrant, they didn’t know who Leo was and haven’t seen him breaking an...

Beware of ICE on roads: how migrants in Texas help each other avoid raids

Sept 2025

INQUIRER.net •

Beware of ICE: how migrants in Texas help each other avoid raids

HOUSTON — These days, Martina Grifaldo begins her mornings by posting a special Facebook message for her immigrant community.


“May everyone who goes out today make it home safely,” Grifaldo writes in Spanish to her 171,000 followers.The Facebook page, managed with fellow activist Francisco Mendoza, aims to warn migrants where possible raids are happening in real time using photos and videos submitted by community members.READ: ICE detains Filipino green card holder who has lived in US for 50...
SWI swissinfo.ch •

Cuidado con el "hielo" en las vías: en Texas, migrantes se ayudan para evadir redadas del ICE

«Buenos días, guerrer@s, Cuídense mucho y que hoy todo el que salga regrese con bien a su hogar». Con este mensaje en su página de Facebook, Martina Grifaldo empieza su trabajo: alertar a la comunidad latina sobre redadas contra migrantes en Houston.Las detenciones de personas indocumentadas en Estados Unidos, en proceso de asilo e incluso por sus rasgos latinos, pese a contar con ciudadanía estadounidense o permiso de residencia, se han hecho comunes en los últimos meses, como parte de la polít...

Immigration raids sapping business at Texas eateries

Sept 2025

France 24 •

Immigration raids sapping business at Texas eateries

Garcia, who is 54 and originally from Mexico, runs a variety of eateries and one is a normally bustling Houston-area taco joint called Los Primos. Its troubles are a microcosm of what is happening in restaurants elsewhere in Texas and around the country as President Donald Trump's administration presses on with his dogged campaign to arrest and expel people without residency papers.Most of Garcia's clientele is Latino, the ethnic group often targeted when Immigration and Customs agents pounce at...
ELESPECTADOR.COM •

Redadas migratorias espantan a trabajadores y clientes de restaurantes en Texas

Las redadas de la “migra” en Texas golpean el restaurante de Oscar García Santaella. Una de sus empleadas tiene miedo de ir a trabajar, mientras que su clientela, mayoritariamente latina, evita salir de casa para reducir los riesgos de detención.

De 54 años y originario de México, García es un empresario gastronómico. Uno de sus negocios es la taquería Los Primos, en Houston, con platillos mexicanos como tacos o quesadillas, que ya forman parte del menú convencional texano.

En este estado cons...

They work, pay taxes and call US home... but risk deportation

March 2026

France 24 •

They work, pay taxes and call US home -- but risk deportation

"They've got me," he told his distraught wife over the phone.While it wasn't an unheard of scene in the United States, such incidents have drawn the glare of scrutiny as President Donald Trump, newly returned to the White House, has lashed out at migrants with particularly violent rhetoric -- raising concerns among many who lack papers that they may be swept up at random for expulsion.Payan, a Mexican, has lived for 20 of his 51 years in the United States. He entered on a work visa, but stayed o...

Trump's US migrant hunt spares no one from deportation

March 2025

France 24 •

Trump's US migrant hunt spares no one from deportation

US President Donald Trump's hunt for migrants to expel from the country is sparing no one. And while the government claims only criminals are being targeted, many of those in the crosshairs tell a different story. At a checkpoint in Texas, immigration agents stopped an undocumented Mexican couple on their way to a Houston hospital for their 10-year-old daughter's cancer treatment. The family was deported, separating the parents from their children, five of whom are US citizens, rights group Texa...

In Texas border city, some question role of troops to counter migration

Jan 2025

INQUIRER.net •

In Texas border city, some question role of troops to counter migration

EAGLE PASS, United States — Armed troops patrolling for migrants have become a familiar sight in Eagle Pass, Texas.
While President Donald Trump’s order this week declaring a “national emergency” at the Mexican border may soon result in thousands of US Army soldiers heading south, troop deployments in Eagle Pass were already boosted last year.Separated from the Mexican city of Piedras Negras by the Rio Grande, Eagle Pass had been a focal point of friction between Texas’s staunchly conservative R...

Under Trump, US families gird for potential deportations (DACA)

Dec 2024

El Nuevo Herald •

Deportaciones masivas amenazan con romper a las familias estadounidenses

Oscar migró a Estados Unidos en brazos de sus padres, cuando era bebé. Natalie es estadounidense. Se conocieron en la escuela, se casaron y formaron un hogar. Pero él podría ser deportado porque ingresó al país ilegalmente.

El presidente electo Donald Trump advirtió que realizará deportaciones masivas en cuanto asuma el mando el 20 de enero. Y ya aparecen propuestas legislativas para recompensar a quienes delaten a sus vecinos indocumentados.

Nacido en México, Oscar Silva, de 24 años, cruzó el...
The Straits Times •

Under Trump, US families gird for potential deportations

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxOscar Silva and Natalie Taylor in their apartment in Denton, Texas, on Dec 8.EL PASO - Oscar Silva has a bull’s eye on his back as Donald Trump prepares to retake power with a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants like him.Born in Mexico, Mr Silva was a baby in his parents’ arms when they waded across the Rio Grande into Texas more than 20 years ago, beginning his life in the only country he’s ever known.Mr Silva, 24, went to...

Color-coded migrants wait for answers in Texas heat

June 2024

Latin Times •

Color-coded Migrants Wait For Answers In Texas Heat

Behind metal fences topped with barbed wire, men play volleyball and basketball at a detention center in Texas, passing time as they wait to hear if they will be allowed to stay in the United States.They are among more than 1,000 men housed at this former naval base in the US city of Los Fresnos, just a few miles from the Mexican border, which they all crossed illegally.Tens of thousands of people walk into America every week through informal crossing points along the 2,000-mile (3,000-kilometer...

NATURAL DISASTERS

Hurricane Beryl Aftermath, TX, video 1

July 2024

Hurricane Beryl Aftermath, TX, video 2

July 2024

July 2024

Hurricane Beryl hits Houston, TX

July 2024

Looking for grandma and granpa after mudslides in Dilley, TX, July 2025

July 2025

SouthTexasNews.com •

Searching for Grandma Alicia after Texas floods

While digging through deep mud, Javier Torres remembers weekends spent at his grandmother's house, fishing in the Guadalupe River -- the same river that likely buried her under debris.Alicia Olvera turned 68 two weeks ago. Her eight children, 25 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren threw her a party at her daughter's house near Austin, the state capital of Texas.Alicia then returned to the small community of Hunt, on the banks of the river where she lived with her 70-year-old husband, Jos...

Michael McCown searches for his missing daughter after the Guadalupe River floods destroyed Camp Mystic, where she was spending her summer vacation (Back up images that were published days after)

July 2025

barrons •

Father's Desperate Search For Daughter After Deadly Texas Flood

With a drizzle falling on Camp Mystic, the flood-ravaged Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a father navigated the debris in search of his eight-year-old daughter."My daughter was here," he said Saturday, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a family photo.Michael, 40, who declined to give his last name, lives in the state capital Austin and received the message every parent fears most on Friday mornin...

POLITICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, ECONOMY

Miami, TX, where the 95% of its population votes for Trump

Nov 2024

Arab News •

‘I feel it’: US voters confident in most pro-Trump town

MIAMI, United States: There are very few lawn signs backing Donald Trump in Miami, Texas. They aren’t necessary.
This speck of a town of around 500 souls — a world away from its glamorous namesake in Florida — is known as the most vehemently pro-Trump town in the United States: 96 percent of its voters backed the Republican in the 2020 election.
And it was about the same proportion in 2016 when Trump won the White House, defeating Hillary Clinton.
As Americans voted on Tuesday, this time in t...
El Nuevo Herald •

La ciudad más trumpista de EEUU se llama Miami y no está en Florida

Este Miami no tiene playa ni fiestas en yate. Tampoco fastuosa propaganda en apoyo a Donald Trump. No hace falta. En esta localidad del norte de Texas, el republicano tiene el mayor porcentaje de apoyo en Estados Unidos.

Miami, la única ciudad del Condado Roberts, se escribe igual a la famosa de Florida pero se pronuncia con un sonido de “ah” al final, aclara Rick Tennant, un amable juez jubilado que suele jugar dominó con sus vecinos en su taller mecánico.

Como está permitido el voto anticipa...

Milwaukee, RNC

July 2024

Plegarias por Trump... y por los 'enemigos' demócratas en antesala de cumbre republicana

Milwaukee (Estados Unidos) (AFP) - A Robert Benning se le humedecen los ojos cuando habla de la fortaleza de Donald Trump y de cómo sobrevivió a un intento de asesinato. Reza por él, pero también por los opositores. Creen que ya fue suficiente de enfrentamientos.'Felizmente está bien. Estaba viendo el mitin y luego le dispararon. Casi lloré. Luego vi que se levantó. Y dije, eso es fantástico. Y prueba lo luchador que es', asegura Robert, de 64 años, en un parque de Milwaukee, al noreste de Estad...
RFI •

Republicans pray for Trump - and his 'enemies'

Milwaukee (AFP) – At a prayer vigil in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Robert Benning's eyes water when he talks about Donald Trump surviving this weekend's assassination attempt. "When he got shot, I was like, 'Oh man.' I damn near cried -- and then he got up... That proves how much of a fighter he is," the 64-year-old said, gathered at a park in the Midwestern city with other supporters to pray for the Republican presidential candidate.The Sunday gathering was held downtown, just step...

Women denied abortions despite health risks testify in Texas case

July 2023

RFI •

Under Texas abortion ban, a mother watches her baby die

Austin (AFP) – A scan revealed that Samantha Casiano's unborn child had serious health defects and would not survive outside the womb for more than a few hours. But with abortion now banned in Texas, Casiano was forced to carry the child to term, and then watch as her partner held their daughter in his arms as she died."She went from being warm to cold," Casiano, who is campaigning for a change in the law, told AFP."It was horrible because I wanted my daughter to rest in peace...

Texas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers

June 2024

France 24 •

Texas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers

Dismissed as grandstanding and extremist by critics, such laws are legally dubious and almost impossible to enforce -- yet that hasn't stopped their proliferation across conservative locales in the United States.The highways passing through Amarillo connect Republican-led Texas with New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas, where abortion is still legal."We're experiencing all these horrors, like abortion trafficking," Mark Lee Dickson, the founder of the group Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn, told AFP.T...

ICE agents deployed at Houston Airport; lack of TSA personnel during shutdown

March 2026

Rainbow croswalk being destroyed by a Federal and a State order in TX

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'I can't eat': Millions risk losing food aid during US shutdown

Nov 2025

The Japan Times •

’I can’t eat’: Millions risk losing food aid during U.S. shutdown

Houston, Texas – Approximately one in eight Americans receive food stamp benefits from the U.S. government, a program at risk of losing its funding as of Saturday due to the government shutdown.One such beneficiary is Eric Dunham, a 36-year-old man who became disabled after an accident and needs help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to live."If I don’t get food stamps I can’t eat," Dunham said, explaining that after all his expenses, he has just $24 left over per...
La Razón •

Sin ayuda del gobierno 'no como': el drama de millones en EEUU

Eric Dunham, padre de dos adolescentes y con una discapacidad, necesita de la ayuda alimentaria federal. Pero con la parálisis presupuestaria en Estados Unidos, Donald Trump suspendió este programa de asistencia, arriesgando la alimentación de 40 millones de personas.
«Si no recibo mis vales de alimento, literalmente no como. Me sobran 24 dólares (del salario), el resto va para la manutención de mis hijos», explica Eric, quien tras un accidente no puede trabajar al mismo ritmo que lo hacía antes...

Gerrymandering, TX

Sept 2025

RTL Today •

Drive to retain control: Minorities stand to lose in Trump's Texas vote map redo

President Donald Trump's drive to retain control of the US Congress by rewriting the Texas electoral map is playing out in part in a largely Latino, low-income patch of Houston that smells of chemical plants and oil refineries.It's called Manchester Park and, for decades, it has been part of District 29, which was firmly held by a Democratic lawmaker.Now, in the recent redo of the map, with which Trump's Republicans hope to eke out five new seats to protect their slim majority in Congress, that...

At Texas Trump-themed burger joint, diners eating it up

April 2025

Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, •

At Texas Trump-themed burger joint, diners eating it up

The chain with four outlets in US is not linked to the Trump OrganisationDonald Trump imagery is everywhere in this joint with a dozen tables — in cardboard cutouts of the man eking out his trademark forced smile, on banners from the 2024 campaign, and on hats and T-shirts displayed for sale.This particular one opened in 2020 and is in Bellville, about a 90-minute drive northwest of Houston in a county where 80 percent of voters cast their ballots for Trump over Kamala Harris back in November.Al...

Plan for expanded Muslim community triggers hope, fear in Texas

April 2025

France 24 •

Plan for expanded Muslim community triggers hope, fear in Texas

The cause?Chaudhary's early plans for construction of 1,000 new homes, a community center, school, hospital and -- controversially -- a mosque and Islamic private school to serve the growing Muslim community near East Plano, in a thinly populated corner of east Texas.One anonymous caller says, in an expletive filled message, "I suggest you get the fuck out of America while it's still an option." The conservative, white, and Christian authorities tied to President Donald Trump in this state aren'...

Heat wave in US turns Texas prisons into 'ovens'

July 2023

台北時報 •

Heat wave turns Texas prisons into ‘ovens’ - Taipei Times

In the afternoon on Tuesday last week, as Americans were celebrating the country’s independence with elaborate fireworks displays, a prisoner named Joseph Martire passed out in his cell in Texas, amid the excessive heat that has been swamping much of the southern US over the past few days.In concrete, brick and metal penitentiaries, industrial fans churn warm vapor without really cooling the air, and with no air-conditioning in most prisons, when outside temperatures exceed 40°C, it can feel eve...

Smog and extreme heat, an unsafe combo for Texans

June 2023

RFI •

Contaminación y calor extremo, letal combinación para respirar en Texas

Houston (Estados Unidos) (AFP) – Cuando las altas temperaturas que registra Houston en los últimos días se mezclan con la contaminación ambiental habitual, Erandi Treviño lo percibe en su nariz y piel. Esa combinación genera el "ozono al ras de suelo", perjudicial para la salud. La ola de calor que golpea al sur de los Estados Unidos se ha extendido por dos semanas, con sensaciones térmicas sobre los 40ºC. Al menos 13 personas han fallecido en los últimos días a causa de las a...

At gay rodeo in Texas, riders gallop on despite rights row

Apr 2023

En un rodeo gay de Texas, los vaqueros le ponen el lazo a la intolerancia

Denton (Estados Unidos) (AFP) - Montado en su caballo 'Diamond', John Beck serpentea obstáculos velozmente, levantando una estela de polvo a su paso. Es uno de los 52 vaqueros que compiten en un rodeo gay en el corazón de Texas, donde los derechos de las personas LGBT son blanco de una arremetida conservadora.Quien pasa por Denton, al noroeste de Dallas, tal vez no se entere de este evento austero, desarrollado en un área casi del tamaño de un campo de fútbol, cercada por tribunas de metal. Aquí...
The Manila Times •

At gay rodeo in Texas, riders gallop on despite rights row

Raymond Norris gallops after a calf in the breakaway roping competition at the Texas Tradition Rodeo, hosted by the Texas Gay Rodeo Association, in Denton, Texas on April 16, 2023. AFP PHOTO






Raymond Norris gallops after a calf in the breakaway roping competition at the Texas Tradition Rodeo, hosted by the Texas Gay Rodeo Association, in Denton, Texas on April 16, 2023. AFP PHOTO
DENTON, Texas: At the Texas Tradition Rodeo in the city of Denton, John Beck gallops hi...

The story of the Waco siege -- from the lawyer who got inside

Apr 2024

SWI swissinfo.ch •

La masacre de Waco, contada 30 años después por el abogado que medió en la escena

Días después de un enfrentamiento mortal entre una secta religiosa y agentes federales en Waco, Texas, el abogado Dick DeGuerin recibió una llamada que hace 30 años puso en sus manos el «mayor caso» de su carrera hasta el momento, y que conmocionó a Estados Unidos.

Era la madre del líder de la secta de los Davidianos de la Rama, David Koresh, para pedir que defendiera a su hijo.



Tras negociaciones, el 31 de marzo este abogado fue el primero que atravesó el cordón policial y entró al recin...
France 24 •

The story of the Waco siege -- from the lawyer who got inside

The worried mother of cult leader David Koresh said her son needed legal help. She hired DeGuerin.He was the first outsider to pass through the security cordon and enter the Mount Carmel compound, where the Davidians were holed up.DeGuerin came face to face with a badly wounded Koresh, and was in position to try to broker an end to the stalemate.Three decades later, as the story pours forth from the 82-year-old lawyer, he remains convinced that the 51-day siege could have ended peacefully withou...

At Texas rally, Trump diehards dismiss ex-president's legal peril

March 2023

Malay Mail •

At Texas rally, Trump diehards dismiss ex-president’s legal peril

WACO, United States, Marc 26 — “Every president has had their mistress, you know?” said 72-year-old Louis, as he waited Saturday to enter Donald Trump’s first big rally of his 2024 campaign, in Texas. “So why not him?”Louis and his grandson are among the thousands of supporters, along with the usual vendors hawking “Make America Great Again” caps and “Trump 2024” flags, who have gathered at an airport in the city of Waco — the site of a siege 30 years ago that ended with more than 80 dead.In add...
CR Hoy | Periodico Digital | Costa Rica Noticias 2 •

En Waco, Texas, defienden a su líder: “Dios, armas y Trump” | CR Hoy

El expresidente llega a Texas tras afirmar que antes lo arrestarían en Nueva York -algo que no ocurrió- por el pago de 130.000 dólares que hizo a la actriz porno Stormy Daniels antes de las presidenciales de 2016, para que callara sobre una presunta relación amorosa que podía afectar sus chances de llegar a la Casa Blanca.En los alrededores del aeropuerto de Waco, donde el republicano de 76 años inicia su campaña este sábado con miras a las presidenciales de 2024, se vive una fiesta, con música...

Texas: Wind and solar stake claim to land of oil

March 2023

The Standard •

Wind and solar energy stake claim in land of oil

Modern Texas was built on oil, and its production has long been a source of pride. But areas that moved to the steady rhythm of oil derricks for more than a century are now making the state the American leader in wind and solar energy.A convergence of factors has led to this unexpected result: lots of wind and sun, relatively cheap land, federal clean-energy subsidies, and a desire to backstop a utility system that failed during a 2021 cold snap.Two counties south of Dallas, Navarro and Limeston...

'God's Army' protesters rally in Texas against migrant crossings

Feb 2024

RTE.ie •

'God's Army' protesters rally in Texas against migration

In trucks, vans and RVs, hundreds of people converged Saturday in southern Texas to rally against what they say is a migrant "invasion" and to demand tough new controls at the US border with Mexico.

Scrawled on the side of one of the vehicles reaching Quemado - population 162 - were the words "Join the God Fight."

The convoy gathered in the tiny town along the Rio Grande river, which forms the natural border between the United States and Mexico, as debate swirls again about how to address reco...

Lethal injection debate swirls around Texas executions

Feb 2023

Macau Business •

Lethal injection debate swirls around Texas executions | Macau Business

The US state of Texas is pushing ahead with the use of lethal injection for its Death Row inmates despite legal challenges over the drugs it employs, in the latest chapter of a fraught national debate over how to conduct executions.


Texas is among the 27 states — more than half the total 50 — that has capital punishment on the books for certain violent crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and rape.


The Lone Star State has carried out executions for a century, and was the first to use le...
Teletica •

Acusan a Texas de utilizar inyecciones letales vencidas en ejecuciones | Teletica

Houston, Estados Unidos | Dos condenados a muerte en Texas reclamaron semanas antes de su ejecución que la inyección letal que recibirían podía contener un fármaco vencido potencialmente causante de sufrimiento innecesario, algo prohibido por la ley en Estados Unidos.Los reos John Balentine y Wesley Ruiz pidieron ante un tribunal a fines de 2022 que "prohíba" al Departamento de Justicia Criminal de Texas (TDCJ, en inglés), en el sur de Estados Unidos, el uso de "sustancias vencidas" en las ejecu...

Texas, other US states mull ban on Chinese buying land

Feb 2023

'Mis sueños americanos hechos trizas': Comunidad china en Texas reclama por sus derechos

Houston (Estados Unidos) (AFP) - Ly lleva sombrero, cinturón con hebilla, botas y habla inglés con acento de vaquero. Ha servido en la Marina de Estados Unidos, pero este sábado su batalla fue contra un proyecto que quiere prohibir a ciudadanos chinos comprar propiedades en Texas.Al grito de 'Alto al Racismo' y 'Alto al odio contra los chinos', unas 300 personas marcharon por los alrededores del barrio chino en Houston, la ciudad más poblada de este estado del sur de Estados Unidos, para protest...
The Straits Times •

Texans of Chinese descent fret that 'dreams have been smashed'

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxDemonstrators hold a protest against a bill that would forbid Chinese nationals from buying properties in Texas, on Feb 11. HOUSTON - With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang. He has served in the US Navy but on Saturday, he was doing battle on a different front – against a proposed law that would bar Chinese citizens from owning property in Texas. About 300 protesters march...
Tuko.co.ke - Kenya news. •

Texas, other US states mull ban on Chinese buying land

The US state of Texas is considering barring Chinese citizens from buying property on national security grounds -- and as tensions with Beijing rise other states may follow suit.The Texas proposal also would bar Russians, Iranians and North Koreans from owning real estate. But the principal target appears to be Chinese nationals.The draft proposal was offered up in November 2022 by Republican Lois Kolkhorst, a state senator in Texas in the southern US."One of the top concerns for many Texans is...

Venezuelan oposition leader Maria Corina Machado meets connationals in Houston, TX

March 2026

Business 360° •

Venezuela oil reserves both entice and repel energy giants

HOUSTON: President Donald Trump's administration is pushing to open Venezuela's untapped natural resources to US investment, but the oil-rich Latin American country's outdated infrastructure is making energy giants think twice about going all-in.

Since US forces captured Venezuela's former leader Nicolas Maduro, in a stunning raid on January 3, Trump officials have worked closely with Caracas to bang the drum for foreign investment in oil, gas and mining.

The chief executives of energy com...
France 24 •

Trump has destroyed Venezuela's socialist ideology: opposition leader

The regime known as "Chavismo" that held Venezuela in its grip for quarter of a century under Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro is "wounded irreparably and is being dismantled," Machado said.The oil-rich Latin American country was thrown into turmoil this January when US military forces toppled leftist Maduro, who has now been replaced with his former deputy Delcy Rodriguez.While Rodriguez served under Maduro, she has proved eager to bend to Trump's demands, including reopening the co...
El Nuevo Herald •

El chavismo está “herido” y se desmantela por órdenes de Trump, dice María Corina Machado

La líder opositora venezolana y premio Nobel de la Paz María Corina Machado aseguró el martes en entrevista con la AFP que el gobierno de Delcy Rodríguez en Caracas se va desmantelando poco a poco por órdenes del presidente Donald Trump, como parte de un proceso de transición.

Machado, quien participa del foro mundial de energía CERAWeek en Houston, dijo además que, cuando se convoque nuevamente a elecciones presidenciales en su país, participará del “proceso electoral”.

P: Usted llega a promo...
RTL Today •

Lifted restrictions: Texas port humming as Trump ramps up Venezuela oil

A cargo ship teems with workers in hard hats at the Port of Houston, the latest US vessel headed to Venezuela after President Donald Trump lifted restrictions to boost oil production in the crisis-hit country.US sanctions have crippled Venezuela for years, but Trump's administration has been working with interim president Delcy Rodriguez after toppling autocratic leader Nicolas Maduro.Washington has used a carrot-and-stick approach with Rodriguez, praising her for welcoming US oil companies but...

Not keen on Biden or Trump? Vote for 'Literally Anybody Else'

April 2024

Diario Libre •

Literalmente Cualquier Otro, un candidato "diferente" a la presidencia de EEUU

"Literalmente, mucho gusto", se presenta un hombre de 35 años en un parque de Dallas. Su interlocutor le devuelve el saludo pero duda sobre si escuchó bien. "Me llamo Literalmente Cualquier Otro, y postulo a la presidencia de Estados Unidos", insiste.Casado y con una hija de 3 años, este aspirante presidencial residente en la ciudad de North Richland Hills, en el sureño estado de Texas, se pregunta por qué su generación y la que le sigue enfrentan problemas para comprar una casa, algo que ni él...
The Straits Times •

Not keen on Biden or Trump? Vote for ‘Literally Anybody Else’

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxMr Literally Anybody Else holding his driver’s licence to prove his name change is for real, in Dallas, Texas, on April 6.DALLAS - “Literally, nice to meet you,” says one presidential hopeful, who many voters might feel sums up their feelings about American politics this election year.“My name is ‘Literally Anybody Else’, and I’m running for president of the United States,” explains the 35-year-old teacher from Texas.The wannabe politician...

With 'Texit', some want to make Texas a country, again

Feb 2024

Acento •

’Texit': los independentistas que quieren 'hacer de Texas un país otra vez'

Fueron independientes hace dos siglos y creen que pueden volver a serlo. Un grupo de ciudadanos quiere separar a Texas de Estados Unidos, resolver la crisis migratoria y poner fin a la disputa entre el gobierno federal y el estatal por el control de la frontera con México.
Para los impulsores del "Texit", la pulsada entre la administración del demócrata Joe Biden y el gobierno estatal del republicano Greg Abbott evidencia una ruptura en la Unión.
"La única manera en que Texas asegure la frontera...
France 24 •

With 'Texit,' some want to make Texas a country, again

Its advocates say the dramatic move -- loosely inspired by Britain's Brexit from the European Union -- would help resolve a roiling immigration border crisis and a fight with Washington over who controls the border with Mexico.That fight, pitting President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Republican Governor Greg Abbott, has laid bare a rupture in America."We know here in Texas, the only way that Texas will ever be able to secure the border and have a sensible immigration system is to do like 200 othe...

'God's Army' protesters rally in Texas against migrant crossings

Feb 2024

RFI •

El "ejército de Dios" en la frontera de EEUU quiere combatir la "invasión" migrante

Quemado (Estados Unidos) (AFP) – Entre los cientos de activistas que llegaron hasta la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, en Texas, hay quienes creen que los migrantes en su país son "gente mala" que les quita los empleos. Por eso están dispuestos a combatir esa "invasión". Pese a que la convocatoria anunciaba miles de manifestantes en los límites con México, el encuentro de este sábado estuvo lejos de grandes cifras. Pero hubo camaradería, pollo frito, carne asada, música, un ba...
RTE.ie •

'God's Army' protesters rally in Texas against migration

In trucks, vans and RVs, hundreds of people converged Saturday in southern Texas to rally against what they say is a migrant "invasion" and to demand tough new controls at the US border with Mexico.

Scrawled on the side of one of the vehicles reaching Quemado - population 162 - were the words "Join the God Fight."

The convoy gathered in the tiny town along the Rio Grande river, which forms the natural border between the United States and Mexico, as debate swirls again about how to address reco...

A Texas school where students bring their babies along

Nov 2023

Monitor •

A Texas school where students bring their babies along

Seventeen-year-old Yavezi Alvarado wakes up early to get her backpack ready for school -- but she also has to prepare bottles for her one-year-old daughter, Kamila, who rides on the school bus with her.

The school takes girls and women aged 14 to 22 who are pregnant or have recently given birth. While they attend classes, a childcare center in the same school watches the little ones. Mothers can go there to nurse their babies whenever necessary.

 'Not a disability' Alvarado gets help from he...

TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE

Parachutes: A vital part of Artemis II's trip home

April 2026

A look inside NASA's science mission operations room for Artemis II

April 2026

France 24 •

Los astronautas de Artemis conviven otra vez con la gravedad y elogian su nave

Y pese a varios contratiempos, cree que la nave Orion es segura y estaría en condiciones de salir de nuevo al espacio mañana mismo.Al retornar de un histórica travesía alrededor de la Luna en más de 50 años y convertirse en los humanos que más lejos han viajado en el espacio, los cuatro astronautas de la misión -tres estadounidenses y un canadiense- hicieron algunas confesiones este jueves en el Centro Espacial Johnson de Houston, Texas."Cada vez que me despertaba durante los primeros días [tras...

NASA prepairs to receive samples of asteroid Bennu

October 2023

Phys.org •

NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon

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A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on E...

Texas at heart of Amazon's AI push in United States

February 2026

Kuwait Times •

Texas at heart of Amazon’s AI push in US - kuwaitTimes

AUSTIN, US: Tech titan Amazon is working to step out of Nvidia’s shadow with custom “Trainium” chips designed specially for machine learning as billions of dollars are poured into artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon subsidiary Annapurna Labs in Austin, Texas, was testing the longevity of its latest generation Trainium during a recent visit by AFP to the facility.Texas is emerging as a US tech world El Dorado, luring investments with cheap energy, relaxed regulations, tax incentives and reasonab...

Starbase city grows near Musk's launch site and wilderness refuges

June 2025

France 24 •

Starbase city grows near Musk's launch site and wilderness refuges

Starbase on the south Texas coast is HQ for the Starship project and something of a shrine to its South African-born founder, the world's richest man and until recently one of President Donald Trump's closest advisors.Musk's short Washington tenure spearheading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, ended last week, with a vow to get back to his day job of running his business empire, including SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink.The departure came as investors grew increasingly nerv...

SPORTS

Sons of MLB stars play for Team Brazil

Diario Libre •

Brasil apuesta a hijos de expeloteros de Grandes Ligas para el Clásico Mundial

Por sus venas corre sangre de una estrella de las Grandes Ligas de Estados Unidos, aunque de niños fueron arrullados a ritmo de samba. En el Clásico Mundial de Béisbol 2026, tres miembros del Team Brasil juegan en nombre del padre, pero en el equipo de la madre.Jardinero izquierdo como su padre, Lucas Ramírez es hijo de Manny Ramírez, dominicano estrella de los Guardianes de Cleveland, los Medias Rojas de Boston y de los Dodgers de Los Ángeles.A sus 20 años, Lucas juega en las ligas menores de L...
El Nuevo Herald •

Invictos y en cuartos de final: ¿quién es este cerebro venezolano que pone a Italia a soñar en el Clásico Mundial?

Campeón de la Serie Mundial 2009 con los Yankees de Nueva York y exreceptor cerebral, el venezolano Francisco Cervelli, ahora mánager, ha puesto a soñar a Italia en el Clásico Mundial de béisbol con visión, táctica, elegancia y motivación.

Hijo del italiano Emanuele y la venezolana Damaris, forjó sus cimientos en academias de pelota en Valencia, Carabobo, antes de llevar en el dorso el número 29 durante en su paso por los Bombarderos del Bronx y los Piratas de Pittsburgh.

Ese mismo número aún...
France 24 •

Talento local y disciplina japonesa, el blend de Brasil en el Clásico Mundial de Béisbol

Es cierto que carecen de figuras en las Grandes Ligas y encajaron dos derrotas consecutivas frente a Estados Unidos (15-5) y a Italia (0-8) en la primera ronda del Clásico Mundial de Béisbol, disputado en Houston, Texas, una de las sedes del torneo.Pero los atletas van con paciencia en la construcción de un equipo con ingredientes y lenguas diversas.Y si se trata de construir, el bateador designado y campo corto Osvaldo Carvalho lo sabe. Alternó sus inicios en el béisbol con un trabajo de albañi...

Copa America 2024

MISCELANEOUS

Panama: Mili, the police sniffer dog who survived a 40-day trans-oceanic lock-up

July 2022

Demonstrations in Panama against high prices and corruption

July 2022

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 50th Anniversary

May 2024

SWI swissinfo.ch •

"La masacre de Texas": la cinta revolucionaria del cine de terror cumple 50 años

Tras ser filmada con poco presupuesto y prohibida en varios países, Ed Neal dudó que «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre» (La masacre de Texas) tuviera éxito. Pero su papel como «Hitchhiker», hermano del sanguinario Leatherface, formó parte de un ícono del cine de terror del que aún se habla cincuenta años después.La película independiente abrió el camino para lo que se conoce como el subgénero «slasher»: un psicópata con el rostro cubierto mata uno a uno a jóvenes temerarios o que la están pasando bie...
Daily Sabah •

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre': 50 years of horror legacy

The film was swiftly produced within tight budget constraints, featuring unfamiliar actors who donned the same perspiration-drenched attire for weeks without end. So if "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" had disappeared without a trace, not many people would have been surprised.Instead, it's celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a half-century in which it has been the benchmark for a subgenre of horror – the slasher movie. "There's no corner of the earth that you can go to and say the 'Texas...

Got weeds? US environmentalists call in the G.O.A.T.s

June 2023

My Latest Work

France 24 •

Drones to fight school shooters? One US company says yes

It is the brainchild of a company called Campus Guardian Angel, which has pilot programs using the technology in Georgia and Florida, with growing interest in Texas. These drones have not yet been battle-tested, however.The approach seems to reflect that part of America which says the way to address recurrent school shootings -- part of the country's broader gun violence epidemic -- is not with stricter gun control laws but rather with weaponry, such as giving teachers guns.The company says the...
NZ Herald •

Inside the booming business of bomb shelters for billionaires

A basic backyard bunker housing four people underground for up to a week while shielding them from bomb blasts and radiation costs around US$25,000 ($43,000).More sophisticated models, designed for years-long stays, can cost millions of dollars depending on how much food, energy and water they are stocked with.“It depends if they’re preparing for the end of the world or Armageddon or they’re preparing just basically for a barrage of missile fires as mostly the Israelis have,” Hubbard said.His bu...
France 24 •

Pretty in pink: Dallas World Cup venue chasing perfect pitch

The mission: make sure the turf at the AT&T Stadium is match-ready -- and controversy free -- by the time the tournament kicks off.The 94,000-capacity venue in Arlington, Texas, the home of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team, will host more matches than any other venue during the World Cup, including group games involving Lionel Messi's Argentina and Harry Kane's England, as well as a semi-final.Like other repurposed NFL stadia being used at the World Cup, organizers have replaced the synthetic turf wi...
OneFootball •

Houston transforma su estadio para el Mundial y prepara una policía políglota

Houston convierte el estadio de los Texans de la NFL en un campo de fútbol con pasto natural, protege sus calles del calor de medio año y alista a su policía para responder en 50 idiomas durante la Copa del Mundo.La cuarta mayor ciudad de Estados Unidos, con 2,3 millones de habitantes, recibirá cinco juegos de fase de grupos, con protagonistas como la Alemania de Florian Wirtz, la Portugal de Cristiano Ronaldo y la Holanda de Virgil van Dijk.También será sede de un duelo de dieciseisavos y otro...
France 24 •

Stadium changes just part of Houston's World Cup transformation

The fourth-largest city in the United States, with 2.3 million inhabitants, will host five group-stage matches, featuring teams such as Florian Wirtz’s Germany, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, and Virgil van Dijk’s Netherlands.It will also host one round-of-32 match and one round-of-16 match in a tournament that kicks off in less than a month, on June 11."As the event approaches and expectations grow, we're here to report that Houston is ready," Chris Canetti, president of the FIFA World Cup Houst...
RFI •

En la antesala del Mundial, hombres con sobrepeso golean a la obesidad en EEUU

Houston (Estados Unidos) (AFP) – ¿Puede un equipo de fútbol empezar un juego con once goles a favor? En un torneo en el sur de Estados Unidos, la escuadra que más perdió peso antes del partido adelanta el marcador sin haber tocado aún el balón. Mientras Houston se prepara para albergar siete partidos del Mundial, en el sur de esta ciudad texana equipos aficionados llenan los campos de fútbol 5. Entre ellos hay unos que no solo compiten contra el rival, sino también contra la b...
RFI •

In big man US football league, guys score a different kind of goal

Houston (AFP) – In a football league of big men trying to lose weight, the five-a-side teams feature names like OB City, Big Bananas and Heavy Touch FC. And players can score before the game even starts, standing on a scale and winning goal points for chipping away at their weight problems.Last week there was a game in which the scoreboard read 11-0 before anyone had even kicked the ball. Welcome to Man vs. Fat Soccer, a tongue-in-cheek Texas league that is thriving as Houston...

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