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G-20 officials meet to discuss debt in Europe, US
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's leading economies met in Mexico on Sunday amid growing fears over the global impact of ...
New fusion cuisine flourishes in Baja California
Until recently, Baja California's culinary contribution to the world amounted to the Caesar salad, a dish hardly associated with Mexican food.
Flowers, ritual, horse race mark Day of the Dead
Mexicans cleaned the bones of dead relatives and decorated their graves with flowers and candy skulls. In Haiti, voodoo practitioners circled an iron ...
Gang rules 6 years after start of Mexico drug war
Forest-camouflaged pickups roared to life as the Mexican soldiers pulled on their black masks and hoisted their Heckler & Koch G3 assault rifles.
Mexico's Day of Dead brings memories of missing
Maria Elena Salazar refuses to set out plates of her missing son's favorite foods or orange flowers as offerings for the deceased on Mexico's Day of ...
Indigenous vs. multinationals in Mexico wind power
Mexico is putting up wind power turbines at a breakneck pace and the expansion is pitting energy companies against the Indians who live in one of the ...
Mexican man pleads guilty in killing of US agent
A Mexican man pleaded guilty Tuesday in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death revealed the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling ...
Mexico City school seeks to dignify mariachi music
In the golden age of mariachi, thousands of music lovers would crowd into theaters and fancy restaurants or fill the Plaza Garibaldi in the heart of ...
Case of blonde girl beggar strikes nerve in Mexico
At a busy intersection, a girl with a high half ponytail looks at you as she begs for coins. There is dirt beneath her fingernails and her pink shirt ...
Case of blond girl beggar strikes nerve in Mexico
The photo shows a girl with a high half-ponytail begging for coins at an intersection. There is dirt beneath her fingernails and her pink shirt looks ...
Trooper fired from chopper to stop truck, kills 2
A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter and killed two illegal immigrants during a chase through the desert was trying to ...
US returns 4,000 archaeological relics to Mexico
More than 4,000 archaeological artifacts looted from Mexico and seized in the U.S. have been returned to Mexican authorities in what experts say is ...
Doomsday exhibit to demystify Maya calendar
Some might prepare for the end of the world by checking off items on their bucket list. But at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, curators are ...
Clowns learn laugh secrets at Mexico gathering
Laughter was a serious matter at a clown convention in the Mexican capital, where hundreds of the performers gathered this week to discover some of ...
Mexico declares end to bird flu outbreak
Mexico says an outbreak of the H7N3 bird flu virus in western Mexico has been "totally controlled" after 68 days without any reports of new cases.
Report: Illegal Mexican migration to US stabilizes
The number of migrants crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico appears to have risen some in the first half of 2012, while the number ...
Study: Mexican migration to US stabilizes
A new report by U.S. and Mexican researchers suggests an uptick in the number of illegal migrants headed to the United States in the first half of ...
Central American mothers look for missing migrants
Even before the tour bus comes to a stop, the women rise from their seats and wait in the aisle to exit. In their arms rest rolled-up flags of the ...
Amid drug war, Mexico fights wave of common crime
On a cool September evening, about a half hour after the sun set on the rose-colored Baroque cathedral of this colonial city in western Mexico, three ...
Mexico fines firefighters, others for bear abuse
A photograph showing firefighters and civil defense personnel holding down a young, bound bear spread-eagled and pulling its ears has sparked outrage ...
Violent border state snapshot of Mexico
Every Sunday, some 100 people gather for pick-up baseball games in a dusty open field marked only by a dirt mound and rusted bleachers. It's the event ...
Mexico seeks exhumation of drug lord's parents
Authorities are seeking permits to exhume the remains of drug lord Heriberto Lazcano's parents to obtain material for DNA testing to convince the ...
Daughter offers no clues on Mexican drug lord
The daughter of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords didn't share information that might lead to her father's capture after she was ...
Hurricane Paul weakens to Caty 2 storm in Pacific
Hurricane Paul has weakened to a Category 2 storm in the eastern Pacific but is still swirling near Mexico's western coast. The National Hurricane ...