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Mexico Travel Restrictions: Updates From the State of Baja California

By Nicola Anelka 3 weeks ago

The State of Baja California is now in its yellow phase of reopening.

Each week, every region in Mexico is assigned a color which determines the level of phased reopening that region can achieve. The colors range from red, which limits activities to essential activities only, to green, which indicates a full reopening.

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Baja California, home to cities like Tijuana, Ensenada, San Felipe and Tecate, is now in its yellow phase, which means that all businesses can reopen with specific capacities. Hotels, shopping malls and restaurants can now operate provided they enforce safety measures such as mask

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Mexico limits non-essential travel on southern border

By Nicola Anelka 3 weeks ago

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but essential travel at its shared border with Guatemala.

Dozens of immigration agents lined the riverside asking those who landed on the giant innertube rafts that carry most of the cross-border traffic for documentation and turning many back.

But those turned away weren’t migrants, they were the small-time Guatemalan merchants and residents from Tecun Uman, across the river, who buy in bulk in Mexico to re-sell in Guatemala or purchase

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Insurrectionist Jenny Cudd Asks For Permission To Vacation in Mexico | The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media

By Nicola Anelka 2 months ago

Source: Mark Makela / Getty

If you have ever wondered what white privilege combined with audacity looks like, insurrectionist Jenny Cudd is certainly the poster child after her recent request.

According to published reports, in a court filing Monday (Feb 1), lawyers for Jenny Louise Cudd requested the court’s blessing to allow the attempted coup participant to travel to Mexico’s Riviera Maya from Feb. 18-21 for a prepaid “work-related bonding retreat” with her employees and their spouses.

Cudd, a small-business owner in Midland, Texas, is on pretrial release after being charged (at the time of her request) with two misdemeanor

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An accused Capitol rioter asked the judge for permission to leave the US for a vacation in Mexico

By Nicola Anelka 2 months ago


a group of people walking down a street: A photo shared by the FBI, which it says shows Jenny Cudd in the Capitol during the January 6 riot. Screenshot via DOJ.

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A photo shared by the FBI, which it says shows Jenny Cudd in the Capitol during the January 6 riot. Screenshot via DOJ.
  • A US Capitol rioter asked the court for permission to leave the US and take a vacation to Mexico.
  • Lawyers said Jenny Cudd “planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat with her employees in Riviera Maya.”
  • Cudd is charged with offences linked to unlawful entry and disorderly conduct at the Capitol.
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One of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol during the January insurrection asked

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Woman charged in Capitol riot asks judge for permission to vacation in Mexico

By Nicola Anelka 2 months ago

Before storming the U.S. Capitol alongside other Trump supporters in what she later described as “the new revolution,” Jenny Cudd had been planning a four-day trip to Mexico.

Now the Midland, Texas, florist is facing federal charges, one of more than 100 people arrested by the FBI in a sweeping investigation of the violent Jan. 6 insurrection. But she still wants her vacation.

In a motion filed Monday in federal court, Cudd’s attorney asked a judge to let her travel this month to Riviera Maya with employees of her flower shop. The motion noted that the trip was prepaid.

“This

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Jenny Cudd, charged in Capitol riot, asks to vacation to Mexico

By Nicola Anelka 2 months ago

In a motion filed Monday in federal court, Cudd’s attorney asked a judge to let her travel later this month to Riviera Maya with employees of her flower shop. The motion noted that the trip was prepaid.

“This is a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses,” wrote attorney Farheena Siddiqui, who did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment. “Ms. Cudd has appeared at her scheduled court appearance, remains in constant contact with her attorney, and has remained in contact with pretrial probation, as ordered.”

Despite some reports that have gone viral on social media,

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