--- title: Fox News Apologized for Their "Mexican" Headline Slip-Up description: A chyron on "Fox & Friends" referred to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as "3 Mexican countries," for which they apologized. canonical: https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-01T16:23:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:28.973Z og:title: Fox News Draws Criticism for '3 Mexican Countries' Mistake og:description: A mistaken chyron on "Fox & Friends" led to an apology from co-host Ed Henry og:url: https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a5a48369ba95f7/69894799b21a9c50e05005d3/fox-mexican-countries.png?branch=production&width=972&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 972 og:image:height: 547 og:image:alt: fox-mexican-countries og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fox News Draws Criticism for '3 Mexican Countries' Mistake twitter:description: A mistaken chyron on "Fox & Friends" led to an apology from co-host Ed Henry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a5a48369ba95f7/69894799b21a9c50e05005d3/fox-mexican-countries.png?branch=production&width=972&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Lambasting Fox News For That '3 Mexican Countries' Mistake > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 1, 2019 4:23 PM UTC  Fox  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 1, 2019 4:23 PM UTC On Friday, President Donald Trump announced [he was cutting aid](https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31/politics/mick-mulvaney-northern-triangle-countries-aid-cnntv/index.html) to the Central American countries of El Salvador, [Guatemala](http://time.com/5561484/jakelin-caal-maquin-death-bacterial-infection/) and Honduras. On Sunday morning, Fox News reported the policy update in a conversation on popular show [_Fox & Friends_](http://time.com/5320725/david-bossie-joel-payne-racist/), underlined by a banner graphic that read “Trump cuts U.S. aid to 3 Mexican countries.” Of course for the news station, Mexico is one country, not three, and is not affected by Trump’s change. Naturally, the internet had a field day lambasting the channel for their incorrect chyron headline. A few hours later, the show’s co-host Ed Henry followed up the snafu with an on-air apology. “We had an inaccurate graphic onscreen while taking about this very story. We just want to be clear, the funding is being cut off to the three Central American countries. We apologize for the error — it never should’ve happened,” he said. For some, however, the correction was already too little too late. “Just a reminder that these are the same folks who assert their superiority by belittling the intelligence and good faith of others,” [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez](http://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/) tweeted with a screenshot of the inaccurate headline. [Mayor Pete Buttigieg](http://time.com/5510973/pete-buttigieg-mayors-president/) of Indiana, who is in the running to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020, had another take: “Amazingly, the chyron is not the most foolish thing about this picture,” he said. “To get ahead of a potential refugee crisis caused by great suffering in Central America, it would make sense to use our resources to help reduce that suffering.” Trump’s policy change stems from his belief that the three Central American countries are contributing to what he calls a [“migrant caravan.”](http://time.com/5466781/migrant-caravan-trump-border-crisis/) “If we’re going to give these countries hundreds of millions of dollars, we would like them to do more,” his current White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31/politics/mick-mulvaney-northern-triangle-countries-aid-cnntv/index.html). The people of [Honduras](http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/29/honduras-exodus-in-pictures/#1), [El Salvador](http://time.com/4634058/el-salvador-crime-gangs-murder-homicide/) and [Guatemala](http://time.com/5346110/guatemala-coffee-escape-migration/) have been dealing with protracted humanitarian and political crises, including organized crime, agricultural challenges and restrictive government policies, for years. > [](https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1112453744761995265) > [](https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1112349547471273984) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/"},"headline":"People Are Lambasting Fox News For That '3 Mexican Countries' Mistake","datePublished":"2019-04-01T16:23:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:28.973Z","description":"\"We apologize for the error — it never should've happened\"","url":"https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","News","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a5a48369ba95f7/69894799b21a9c50e05005d3/fox-mexican-countries.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a5a48369ba95f7/69894799b21a9c50e05005d3/fox-mexican-countries.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fox-mexican-countries","caption":"","creditText":"Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5562078/fox-news-mexican-countries/","name":"People Are Lambasting Fox News For That '3 Mexican Countries' Mistake"}}]}] ```