Alasdair Baverstock is CGTN’s Mexico correspondent, based out of Mexico City, and covering the entire country and wider region.
A British journalist who began his career in print, Alasdair reported previously from Madrid and Caracas, before his role in Mexico.
As Mexico correspondent, Alasdair’s mission is to paint a wider and more in-depth picture of the region, bringing stories of success, innovation and cultural nuance to a country that is so-often reduced to drug cartels, violence and corruption through international coverage.
The migration crisis is at a critical point at the Texas border with Mexico, where migration authorities, both Mexican and American, are struggling to contain a large group of Haitian migrants, camped under the Del Rio international border bridge while they wait for resolution. Read More...
After four failed attempts at negotiations, officials from the Venezuelan government and opposition met over the weekend in Mexico City aimed at resolving the country’s long-standing political crisis have yielded “partial agreements.” See the latest. Read More...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivered his country’s state of the union speech Wednesday, marking the halfway point of his presidency. The president painted a positive picture of the country in 2021 while acknowledging more work needs to be done. CGTN’s Alasdair Baverstock reports. Read More...
In the south of the border to Mexico, more than one million Mexicans identify as having African roots, but the wider society still has a long way to go in recognizing their actual existence. Read More...
The new era of North American free trade, under the renegotiated USMCA deal by the Trump administration, is now more than a year old. The signing of the three-country trade pact last year was cause for celebration in Mexico. And after more than a year of free trade […] Read More...
COVID-19 infection rates are soaring in Mexico, right as the new academic year starts. But, as CGTN’s Alasdair Baverstock reports, authorities are adopting measures to keep students and their families safe. Read More...
Mexico is battling a third wave of COVID-19, and some of the hardest-hit places just happen to be some of the most popular spots for international tourists. Cancun in particular is living two realities amid the pandemic. CGTN’s Alasdair Baverstock reports Read More...
A study released last month by the medical journal The Lancet calls it a ‘hidden pandemic’ within the COVID-19 crisis, the children orphaned by coronavirus deaths. Researchers estimated more than one million children worldwide had lost a primary parent or caregiver to COVID-19 by […] Read More...
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