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July 30, 2020 at 7:07 am

Vehicles burned in Mexico to protest US water payment

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Demonstrators in northern Mexico have burned several government vehicles, blocked railway tracks and set afire a government office and highway tollbooths...

July 14, 2020 at 9:02 pm

Mexico’s president turns attention to cartel-plagued states

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is traveling to three of Mexico’s most violent states this week to counter what many call...

July 3, 2020 at 11:03 am

Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts and cave divers in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have found ocher mines that are some of the oldest on the continent,...

June 26, 2020 at 11:30 am

Latin America’s critical food markets fuel virus spread VIEW

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City's main wholesale market detects dozens of coronavirus cases every week. A covered food market in Venezuela was the source...

Business

June 1, 2020 at 9:04 pm

Mexican president defies leftist label in virus response

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico’s presidency after years of agitating for change, many expected a transformative leader who would take the country to...

In this undated photo released on May 21, 2020 by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an archaeologist works at the site where bones of about 60 mammoths were discovered at the old Santa Lucia military airbase just north of Mexico City. Institute archaeologist Pedro SÃ(degrees)nchez Nava said the giant herbivores had probably just got stuck in the mud of an ancient lake, once known as Xaltocan and now disappeared. (INAH via AP) XLAT101 XLAT101

May 22, 2020 at 11:24 am

In Mexico City, experts find bones of dozens of mammoths

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built...

Sara Vargas Lopez, right, speaks with a customer wearing a face shield as she sells tlacoyos and sopes in a partially-open public market in the Xochimilco district of Mexico City, Friday, May 15, 2020. As Mexico moves toward a gradual reactivation of its economy Monday, the number of new coronavirus infections grows higher every day, raising fears of a new wave of infections that other countries have seen after loosening restrictions. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) RLB107 RLB107

May 18, 2020 at 9:04 pm

Civic group: Mexico City virus deaths are 3 times higher than reported

The federal government acknowledges only 1,332 confirmed deaths in Mexico City since the pandemic began, but an independent group did its own survey and found...

Nation & World

May 17, 2020 at 1:45 pm

Mexico cites virus in slapping down renewable energy

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has cited the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for new rules that will reduce the role of renewable...

Business

May 13, 2020 at 8:26 am

Prodded by US, Mexico aims to restart industrial plants VIEW

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged Wednesday to begin reopening Mexico's economy next week — under pressure at home and from...

Business

May 8, 2020 at 12:07 pm

Mexico auto plants to reopen as country weighs virus risks

MEXICO CITY (AP) — On a day Mexico saw its worst daily increase yet in coronavirus cases, foreign-owned auto plants began setting dates for reopening....

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