Mexico News

Last week, just before Spring Break season kicked off, the US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs issued an updated warning for US travelers in Mexico.

Do you start with the decapitated heads of police officers found in local ice cream coolers, the kindergarten kids threatened with mass kidnappings, the vigilantes who have emailed the media to prove they are serious about murdering "criminals," or do you just give up explaining it in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a mile from Interstate 10 and just down ... (more)

In the February 10th issue of the journal Science, a team of scientists from the United States, Mexico and China, including geophysicist Eric Fielding of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, reports the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of an earthquake zone, using data from the magnitude 7.2 event that struck near ... (more)

A Mexican businessman is in U.S. custody, accused of money laundering and serving as a liaison between drug cartels and powerful politicians, including a former governor who allegedly received millions of dollars in exchange for protecting the criminals, according to a 14-page court filing in Texas.

Despite the violence constantly making headlines across the border, what's often overlooked in the news is the -positive- in Mexico.

The U.S. State Department is recommending that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states in the widest travel advisory issued since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.

Three suspected kidnappers were lynched by a mob in Chalco, a city in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, officials said.

When digging gets under way, the substandard coal will be carried by train from the site in rural Maverick County through the center of Eagle Pass, Texas, and across the US Mexico border where it can be sold.

For the past year, the manager of a sprawling preserve on the southern tip of Texas has been comforted by a gap in the rust-colored fence that gave him a quick escape route north in case of emergency.

Just in the last year, 96-year-old American artist Elizabeth Catlett has had her work featured in exhibitions from Istanbul to Mexico to New York.

Representing more than a dozen organizations, the activists announced they had documented 23 cases of alleged torture committed by local police during the month of January alone.

Durango state prosecutors say in a statement the inmates died in a fight Saturday inside the state prison in the city of Gomez Palacio.

By early Sunday, 11 more residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, had been slain in a 20-hour period, including the sixth police officer killed this year in growing drug cartel violence.

The area near Mexicali in northern Mexico, struck by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in April 2010.

Archaeologists found Aztec ruins during construction work in 2007. A new exhibition has spurred talk about the current education system When the Spanish cultural center in downtown Mexico City wanted to expand, excavations uncovered a Smith & Wesson revolver, a partial figurine of Jesus - and the ruins of an ancient Aztec school.

For those of you in the Boston area, I'll be appearing this Sunday, Feb. 12, at 12:15 p.m. at the Boston Globe Travel Show at the Seaport World Trade Center.

Under the desert sun at the Paso del Norte bridge between Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and El Paso, Texas, hundreds of pedestrians stand in line for up to two hours to reach the immigration booths.

U.S. drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico's former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas.

The U.S. State Department has extended and expanded its travel warnings regarding Mexico, citing continued drug cartel violence.

As spring break approaches, Arizonans are urged to avoid Nogales, Mexico, and the beach areas of Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point.