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May 25, 2023 at 4:10 pm

Mexico arrests owner of mine where 10 workers died in flooded shaft last year

The owner of a northern Mexico coal mine where 10 miners died last year has been arrested.

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May 3, 2023 at 7:37 pm

Mexico develops own COVID-19 vaccine, 2 years late

Mexican officials are crowing about the country finally developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China...

April 1, 2023 at 5:41 am

Fatal fire complicates border city’s tensions with migrants VIEW

Tensions have simmered between migrants and residents in Mexican border cities for years, with camps set up near crossings by those who can’t afford housing...

Migrants walk along the Mexico-U.S. border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, a day after dozens of migrants died in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) XFLL261 XFLL261

March 28, 2023 at 10:24 pm

Mexico investigates 8 over deadly fire at migrant facility WATCH

Immigrants and Mexicans are asking: When fire began at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, why didn't authorities unlock the doors and free the...

A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes, at the crime scene where gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas, Friday, March 3, 2023. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the four Americans were going to buy medicine and were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups after they had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. (AP Photo) XFLL118 XFLL118

March 7, 2023 at 7:17 am

Survivors of deadly Mexico abduction returned to US WATCH

2 U.S. citizens missing since their abduction Friday in the Mexican border city of Matamoros have been found dead and two others were alive, one...

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Anti-government demonstrators protest against recent reforms pushed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to the country’s electoral law that they say threaten democracy, in Mexico City’s main square, The Zocalo, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) XFLL102 XFLL102

February 27, 2023 at 10:47 am

Mexican president disparages pro-democracy demonstrators VIEW

Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at demonstrators who protested cuts to election funding over the weekend, belittling concerns about threats to democracy.

January 30, 2023 at 9:08 pm

Mexicans relish tamales, savoring tradition and nostalgia VIEW

At least three times a week, Mexico City bus driver Nicolás Cuatencos stops by a stand selling tamales.

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January 6, 2023 at 9:02 pm

Mexican capo’s arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change VIEW

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war...

January 4, 2023 at 6:55 am

In troubled Mexico prison, inmates ruled their cell blocks

The violent prison break that killed 17 people _ mostly guards _ and resulted in the escape of 30 inmates has revealed a shocking level...

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Roxana Ruiz, right, is hugged by Araceli Osorio Martinez, the mother of murdered Lesvy Berlin Osorio, outside a court on the day of Roxana’s hearing where she is accused of killing a man in 2021 who she says raped her and threatened her life, in Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico, Mexico, Monday, Abril 18, 2022. Lesvy’s body was found on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the autopsy determined she was strangled by a telephone cable. Her then-boyfriend Jorge Luis González Hernández was convicted of femicide and sentenced to 52 years in prison. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) MXEV311 MXEV311

December 27, 2022 at 5:40 am

Femicides in Mexico: Little progress on longstanding issue VIEW

In 2021, Mexico had more than 1,000 femicides — cases of women killed because of their gender. A recent spate of killings put new pressure...

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