Mexico

Two killed, third person injured and fourth unharmed after quartet traveling for cosmetic surgery were seized in Tamaulipas.

[later told the Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-gulf-drug-cartel-2700637729e8f3a5065005231aa8d4d3) that her younger brother, Zindell Brown, had gone to accompany a friend across the border who was planning on undergoing a tummy tuck procedure. In 2021 alone, more than 35,000 people were killed across the country, [government figures show](https://www.forbes.com.mx/mexico-tuvo-mas-de-1-1-millones-de-muertes-en-2021-estos-fueron-las-principales-causas/). At least two of the young men were shot in the back of the head while lying facedown on the pavement, according to witnesses, the organization said. In Washington, White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre described the attack as “unacceptable”. A subsequent autopsy found that his skull had dozens of fractures. There were more than 380 “malicious homicides” in the state last year, Two more people can be seen being dragged across the street and thrown into the truck. [according to a local human rights group](https://twitter.com/CentroProdh/status/1630226217998643205/photo/1). The two survivors [according to authorities](https://www.fgjtam.gob.mx/comunicado-conjunto-2/). [shared on social media](https://twitter.com/All_Source_News/status/1632763177736830985) showed the gunmen, some wearing what look like bulletproof vests, escorting one of the hostages over to a white pickup truck. The governor also said that a woman who was unhurt and a man who had been injured had been handed over to US authorities in Texas earlier in the day.

The 4 U.S. citizens were abducted last week shortly after crossing the border into Mexico.

“We will do everything in our power to identify, find, and hold accountable the individuals responsible for this attack on American citizens.” She declined to provide names of those abducted. The four U.S. law enforcement partners for their efforts to find these innocent victims, and the task forward is to ensure that justice is done.” “Two U.S. citizens killed in the same incident were also recovered,” department spokesperson Ned Price said during a news conference.

Migrants wait in line outside at the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance in Mexico City, Mexico, on January 24, 2023. Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via ...

The group’s takeover preceded a deepening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, worsening issues that had long plagued the country and creating difficult conditions for those who remained. And the longer the journey, the more vulnerable situations they will likely face,” Resendiz said. According to US federal court documents, 410 Afghan adults were processed in January 2023 – a more than 1200 percent increase compared to May 2022, when US immigration authorities encountered just 31 Afghans. Tens of thousands of Afghans were evacuated to the US when the Taliban returned to power in 2021. US data from the time period identified by Lucero does show an increase in the number of Afghans crossing the US southern border and being processed by immigration officials. Enrique Lucero, the migrant services head of the northern Mexican town of Tijuana, on the Mexico-US border, says he started seeing an increase in the number of Afghans in his city last April.

A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two ...

He referenced arrests in the 2019 killings of nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens in Sonora near the U.S. The gunmen walked one of the Americans into the bed of a white pickup, then dragged and loaded up the three others. But from looking at his brother's Facebook posts, he thinks his brother did not consider the trip dangerous. media's coverage of the missing Americans, accusing them of sensationalism. government has every right to be upset by the violence. The two dead — Shaeed Woodard, 33, and Zindell Brown, in his mid-20s — will be turned over to U.S. Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone. Video and photographs taken during and immediately after Friday's abduction show the Americans' white minivan sitting beside another vehicle, with at least one bullet hole in the driver's side window. The convoy of ambulances and SUVs was escorted by Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted machine guns. Their minivan crashed and was fired on shortly after they crossed into the border city of Matamoros on Friday as drug cartel factions tore through the streets, the region's governor said. soil on Tuesday in Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas and just across the border from Matamoros. The survivors were taken to Valley Regional Medical Center with an FBI escort, the Brownsville Herald reported.

A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent ...

Authorities were still investigating how the two Americans died, and one Mexican official said the most likely explanation for the group's abduction was a case ...

Mexican President Lopez Obrador vowed to bring the killers to justice. ABC News on Monday named the four Americans as Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, Latavia McGee and Eric James Williams. She was forced into the back before the men dragged in two prone figures. The U.S. A 24-year-old man guarding them at the cabin was arrested at the scene. officials at the border, and the two bodies were to follow in the next few hours, Villarreal said.

A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead -- and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast -- after a ...

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One of the four Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico last week was traveling for medical tourism, a friend said. A growing number of US residents are ...

There are a lot of infections and a lot of botched procedures gone wrong, and patients have to come back to the United States and then have a revision of the surgery,” he said. “It may be that the quality of care is not up to the standards that you would like. [Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. The region has some of the nation’s highest rates of comorbidities, including obesity and diabetes, and one of the lowest physician-to-patient ratios. “The quality of care may be an unknown,” she said. And your health care providers should take into consideration the impact of traveling if you have orthopedic injuries or issues,” Ziemba said. So they explore their options outside the United States to see what’s available,” said Elizabeth Ziemba, president of Medical Tourism Training, which provides training and accreditation to international health travel organizations. A growing number of US residents are traveling internationally to seek more affordable medical care, more timely care or access to certain treatments or procedures that are unapproved or unavailable in the United States. Violence against medical tourists is generally thought to be rare, but the [US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/medical-tourism) warns about other risks such as quality of care, infection control and communication challenges with medical staff. We know that the US health care system is incredibly expensive,” she added. “Whether it’s primary care provider visits or dental procedures or something more significant, like elective or weight loss surgery, there’s no doubt that people are doing that because of low cost and easier access.” Washington McGee and Williams were found alive, and Woodard and Brown were found dead, a US official familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Activists and public health experts in Mexico demand that officials of the Mexican Ministry of Health (SSA) and the Federal Commission for the Protect.

We are currently the largest non-profit provider of HIV/AIDS medical care in the world. Mpox is a viral disease that was rarely seen outside of Africa until last year but has since affected more than 86,000 people in more than 110 countries and territories. It has been demonstrated that vulnerable populations in Mexico need access to this vaccine that saves lives in the most serious cases and avoids unnecessary suffering in mild or not-so-serious cases. Among the authors of this study is the highest decision-maker in public health in Mexico, Dr. To deal with this health emergency, the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended the use of the vaccine for people at higher risk of exposure. Gabriel García Rodríguez (General Director of Epidemiology) are the heads of the formulation of mpox policy in Mexico. [MPOX vaccines are needed in Mexico](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanam%2Farticle%2FPIIS2667-193X%252823%252900031-5%2Ffulltext&esheet=53358056&newsitemid=20230307006034&lan=en-US&anchor=MPOX+vaccines+are+needed+in+Mexico&index=3&md5=d041932cd46357dec1e1456aa5fcd778),” on March 6, 2023. The letter was accepted and finally published by the same magazine in its correspondence section titled " Jorge Saavedra, Executive Director of the AHF Institute for Global Public Health, and one of the authors of the reply letter published in The Lancet Regional Health Americas. Alethse de la Torre (General Director of the National AIDS Center-CENSIDA), who is in charge of HIV and STI policies and creating communication materials on mpox, as well as Dr. "Despite the fact that mpox was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) in July 2022, the vaccine recommended by the WHO to prevent infections is not yet authorized for use in Mexico," said Dr. Saavedra added, “Strangely, Mexico is the only country in the top 10 with the most accumulated cases of mpox, which has not authorized the vaccine, as the other top nine have: USA, Brazil, Spain, UK, Colombia, Germany, France, Peru and Canada.”

According to the Mexican Council for the Medical Tourism Industry, nearly one million Americans travel to Mexico for medical care each year. For many border ...

While some border towns have become especially hostile for immigrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the US, violence against Americans in these regions is still rare. You can get your teeth cleaned or an implant for a fraction of the cost of what you get in the US." "It's economics," said Néstor Rodriguez, an immigration studies expert and professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Border towns like Matamoros are among the most dangerous in Mexico. Other Mexico border states also have travel warnings. Two have been confirmed dead, and two survived the ordeal.

The U.S. citizens, who travelled to Mexico for a medical procedure, were abducted Friday after getting caught in the crossfire of rival cartel groups.

Robert Williams said in a telephone interview that his brother, 38-year-old Eric Williams, was among the kidnapped Americans. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. The gunmen walked one of the Americans into the bed of a white pickup, then dragged and loaded the three others. media’s coverage of the missing Americans, accusing them of sensationalism. The U.S. Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone. Barrios said the hypothesis is “that it was confusion, not a direct attack.” The two dead will be turned over to U.S. Villarreal said the captive Americans had been moved around by their captors, and at one point were taken to a medical clinic “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them.” Americo Villarreal said the four were found in a wooden shack, where they were being guarded by a man who was arrested. A spokesperson for the hospital referred all inquiries to the FBI. The surviving Americans were back on U.S.

One of them has gunshot wounds and two of their friends were killed by gangs at a Mexico border town.

A video of the kidnapping shows the four Americans being loaded into a pickup truck by heavily armed men. One is manhandled on to the vehicle while others appear to be unconscious and are dragged to the truck. Ms Williams said her husband Eric Williams was emotional as he spoke to her on the phone as he had considered Brown and Woodard to be like his "brothers".

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities are searching for armed men who kidnapped four Americans, after two of them were found dead and two survivors returned ...

[The search for the disappeared points to Mexico’s darkest secrets](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mexico-losing-control/mexico-disappeared-drug-war/?itid=lb_losing-control-how-criminal-groups-are-transforming-mexico_1) [The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. Matamoros, home to 580,000 people, is the second-largest city in Tamaulipas, across the Rio Grande from Texas. citizens alone to avoid running afoul of the U.S. The governor of Tamaulipas state said their abductors had moved them among at least three locations. Video and photos verified by The Washington Post show men in black with protective vests and rifles Two of the victims were found dead Tuesday; the two survivors were returned to Brownsville, Tex., where they were receiving medical care.

Just north of the bustle of Cabo San Lucas, the Paradero hotel highlights Todos Santos' free spirit.

My week here is a reminder that creation and collaboration don’t have to adhere to a timeline or come at the cost of well-being. It’s a gathering of more than 50 artists and musicians that share new visual art and musical performances in intimate venues around the town. The annual music and arts festival Tropic of Cancer, based out of the Hotel California, runs for a week each January. Paradero’s opening has brought more attention to this part of the Baja peninsula. In its own way, Paradero signals where this part of Mexico is headed, a place that’s rooted in the land while sparking local connections. A trip into town is essential to understanding where the region has been. I learn during a nature walk around the property and through neighbouring farmland to the Pacific that it is, in fact, a dry jungle. Paradero was built away from the beach and around existing foliage so it minimizes disturbing the existing environment. The Paradero rises out of the desert like a contemporary art installation. In fact, the hotel’s arid environment is not a desert at all. For many visitors, the point of coming here is that it’s not Cabo. The gate agent quickly lets them know that their carry-on cocktails are a no go, so they sheepishly step aside to finish them.

Four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout in Mexico with two killed and the others held captive for days in a remote region before being rescued.

Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone. The gunmen walked one of the Americans into the bed of a white pick-up, then dragged and loaded up the three others. “The DEA and the FBI are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on,” Garland [said](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-attack-four-american-citizens-matamoros-mexico). The four Americans were hauled off in a pick-up truck. American police were not involved in the search operation. [Video and photographs](/news/2023/3/7/two-americans-dead-one-injured-in-mexico-kidnapping-official) taken during and immediately after the attack show the Americans’ white minivan sitting beside another vehicle, with at least one bullet hole in the driver’s side window.

Two Americans have returned to the US from Mexico and are being treated at a hospital after an armed kidnapping left two of their friends dead and spurred a ...

They came across a video that McFadden described as showing the kidnapping, and recognized her clothing, she said. People had “been calling all of their phones and it’s just going to voicemail,” said Washington McGee’s friend, who did not want to be named. This was not the first time Washington McGee had traveled to Mexico for a procedure, her mother said. She made the comments to CNN affiliate WPDE. The Americans were finally found at a house outside Matamoros on Tuesday morning, the attorney general said. Their car was intercepted by unidentified gunmen who fired upon the Americans, loaded them into a vehicle and took them from the scene, according to the FBI. Williams had been shot in the legs three times and was brought to a hospital in Texas to undergo surgery, his wife, Michele Williams, told CNN. The video shows the woman being pulled or pushed onto the bed of the truck by two unidentified people as a third visibly armed man watches before the men appear to drag at least two limp people onto the truck bed. A Mexican official said Tuesday that the gunmen were driving a pickup truck. It is among more than two dozen other states under some level of the State Department’s travel advisory, all of which cite crime as a reason for precautions. Victims Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were found dead at the scene, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation told CNN. [The four Americans](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/americas/fbi-mexico-kidnapping-us-citizens/index.html) were found in a “wooden house” in or near the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where they were kidnapped on Friday, Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal announced Tuesday.