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US begins flying home deported Mexicans
The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by ...
AP Exclusive: US car was targeted in Mexico ambush
A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA ...
Mexico labor bill would loosen hiring, union grip
A proposal to reform Mexico's dysfunctional, 1970s-era labor laws, loosen work rules and increase union democracy split Mexican political parties ...
Mexico blast a blow to Pemex's improving safety
An enormous blast that killed 30 workers at a pipeline facility in northern Mexico was a big setback for the state-owned oil company, which up to this ...
29 dead, 46 injured in Mexico pipeline fire
The death toll in a pipeline fire at a distribution plant near the U.S. border has risen to 29, Mexico's state-owned oil company said Wednesday.
Mexico: Purported Gulf drug cartel leader caught
A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the U
APNewsBreak: US halts Mexico flights for migrants
The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a ...
Ex-candidate quits Mexico's main leftist party
The man who led Mexico's main leftist party in the past two presidential elections announced Sunday he is leaving it behind and may start a new party, ...
Tweets of false shootouts cause panic in Mexico
Mothers rushed to pull their kids out of school, shopkeepers slammed down their metal gates, and bus drivers radioed one another about streets to ...
Mexico: Attack on US embassy car was an accident
High-ranking Mexican security officials are portraying the shooting of two CIA agents by Mexican federal police as a well-intentioned mishap rather ...
Mexico pres seeks to cement legacy in last address
As he nears the end of his six-year term, Mexican President Felipe Calderon leaves his country with a better-armored economy — and also more armored ...
PRI declared winner of Mexico's presidential vote
Mexico's highest electoral authority declared Friday that Enrique Pena Nieto was the legitimate winner of the July 1 presidential election, formally ...
Big cash seizure puts light on Nicaragua drug role
Most days the only vehicles on Highway 15 are battered trucks shuttling grain, coffee beans and cooking oil through the lush, mountainous highlands ...
Mexico probes why federal cops fired at US gov car
Mexican authorities are trying to sort out why a U.S. Embassy vehicle was ambushed by federal police on a rural back road in mountains south of the ...
Mexican Navy: Police fired on US gov't vehicle
Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, ...
Mexico scrambles to cope with egg shortage
The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg ...
Even more brutal leader takes over Mexico's Zetas
A falling out between the leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel appears to have put the gang in the hands of a brutal and feared gangster who has ...
US beats Mexico in Mexico for 1st time
The United States defied expectations — and a rowdy crowd elated by Mexico's Olympic gold — to break a 75-year winless streak at its neighboring rival ...
Mexicans celebrate Olympic soccer gold medal
Jubilant Mexicans celebrated their 2-1 Olympic gold medal soccer win over powerhouse Brazil Saturday, waving flags and chanting in plazas and streets ...
As Mexico's drug war gets gritty, so do nicknames
When "The Worm Eater" and his sidekick "The Rat" were captured, they were allegedly carrying five grenades and about $1 million in cash. "Garbage" was ...
Chavela Vargas, famed Mexican singer, dies at 93
Chavela Vargas, who defied gender stereotypes to become one of the most legendary singers in Mexico, died Sunday at age 93. Her friend and biographer ...
Metallica burns it up at start of Mexico tour
Metallica vocalist James Hetfield had warned things could get perilous at the start of the band's fifth tour of Mexico, saying "We're very focused on ...
Warner Bros. cancels more world Batman premieres
Warner Bros. Pictures says it has canceled appearances by the cast and filmmakers of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Mexico and Japan after a ...
AP intern Armando Montano celebrated at service
Hundreds of friends and colleagues gathered Sunday for a memorial celebration for Armando Montano, a news intern for The Associated Press who died at ...