Mexico City, Mexico News

PACULA, Mexico Not long ago, this remote mountain town was in the middle of a construction boom as families proudly built their American-style dream homes using cash sent by relatives working in the United States.

VATICAN CITY, JULY 10, 2009 .- Benedict XVI is affirming Mexico's efforts in favor of life and against drug trafficking problems, while calling for a deeper understanding of the citizen's right to religious freedom.

Relatives and friends react during funeral services for Mormon anti-crime activist Benjamin LeBaron and his neighbor Luis Widmar, who were killed Tuesday, in Galeana, Mexico, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Chiles en nogada, a meat-stuffed poblano pepper in walnut sauce, is the specialty at Restaurante Fonda El Morral in Mexico City, Mexico.

Whether your ideal Mexican vacation is a succession of frosty margaritas delivered to your beach palapa by white-shirted waiters or busing at whim from village to village with your backpacks in the overhead rack, those days are gone once you have children in tow.

About 10.7 percent of voters in Mexico City nullified their votes in Sunday's mid-term elections following a media campaign to use null vote as a protest against Mexico's major parties, a leading pollster said on Tuesday.

Reporting from Mexico City -- Anti-crime activists on Wednesday decried the slaying of a protest leader in northern Mexico who went public after his brother was kidnapped in May.

Caption: Gael Garcia Bernal Special New York screening of 'The Limits of Control' at Landmark's Sunshine Theater - Arrivals New York City, USA .... Movie star GAEL GARCIA BERNAL has branded the swine flu outbreak in his native Mexico "liberating" - because the whole country united to fight the deadly disease.

"The PRI comes back" shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm elections.

The Canadian government worries its embassy in Mexico City is a hot spot for clashes between Canadian mining companies and protesters, documents show.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev hold a summit Monday in Moscow, where they're expected to announce progress on a new arms treaty.

When a tiny French town destroyed during World War II needed help rebuilding, "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell came to the rescue.

Mexican airline Aeromexico is offering non-stop flights to Mexico City from New Orleans starting Tuesday.

Intent on producing one of the greenest buildings in Latin America, SPACE Architects + Planners have unveiled their Efizia Tower design for the Santa Fe district of Mexico City.

Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that women who deliver prematurely have, on average, up to three times the phthalate level in their urine compared to women who carry to term.

Mon Jul 6, 2009 2:56am EDT - Mexican fans of the late pop star Michael Jackson gather at the Angel of Independence Monument in Mexico City, July 4, 2009.

MEXICO CITY a ' The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades appeared to be making a historic comeback in Sunday's midterm congressional elections, scoring big with voters for the first time since it lost the presidency in 2000.

Early returns suggest comeback by Mexico's former ruling party, making PRI biggest in congress.

Regularly scheduled international flights out of New Orleans are set to resume Tuesday, unaffected by political turmoil in one of the destinations.

Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weighed heavily as Mexicans voted Sunday in midterm congressional elections that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies.