Mexico
9 Apr
People in Mazatlán, Mexico were the first to see the total solar eclipse at 2:07p.m. ET yesterday before it continued its journey into Texas, United States travelling along a “path of totality” spanning more than 100 miles across the width of the continent, as millions of people were treated to stunning views as the moon passed between Earth and the sun and temporarily blocked the sun’s light.
5 Apr
Mexico warned Israel Friday that a lack of progress in efforts to extradite a former investigator in connection with one of the country's worst human rights tragedies threatened diplomatic relations.
25 Mar
Mexico's president said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Republican Donald Trump's mantra that the US-Mexico border should be walled off is a nonstarter, reiterating his view that only huge US foreign policy changes will stem illegal migration.
22 Mar
Mexico fears that a contentious Texas immigration law will lead to unjust harassment, detention, deportation, and criminalization of its citizens, it told a US court on Thursday.
17 Mar
A Russian woman was reportedly kidnapped while traveling through Mexico's northeast, the Russian embassy said Saturday, citing local media reports.
12 Mar
A well-known Mexican journalist and TV news host has gone missing in Guadalajara, the local governor and his family said Monday night. "A few moments ago, they informed me that journalist Jaime Barrera had not gone to his news program and that since midday his family had not been able to locate him," Enrique Alfaro,…
5 Mar
At least nine people were killed Monday after a passenger van and cargo truck collided in Mexico's southeastern state of Quintana Roo, a popular tourist destination.
19 Feb
Mexican troops on patrol killed 12 gunmen in a clash in Tamaulipas, according to the government of the northeastern state, which has been rocked by violence linked to organized crime.
25 Jan
Four police officers were killed in shooting in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, local authorities said on Thursday, the latest casualties in one of the country's most violent areas.
20 Jan
Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged cartel leader over the kidnapping of four Americans, which resulted in the deaths of two of them, local media reported Friday.
5 Jan
The kidnappers of 32 migrants who were rescued in northern Mexico sought to extort money from their relatives in the United States, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday.
30 Dec
Gunmen killed six people at a party in northwestern Mexico on Friday, including an alleged criminal believed to have been targeted in the attack, authorities said. "Initial investigations indicate that it was a direct attack against the leader of a criminal group who had arrest warrants for attempted femicide, homicide, illegal deprivation of liberty and…
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