Mexico City residents were rattled by a moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck to the south of the capital Thursday. MAGNITUDE 5.1 EARTHQUAKE RATTLES BARBADOS The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at about 2:03 p.m. local time at a spot
The Mexican government is allocating resources to investigate “fake” missing person cases, which it claims are reported by political opponents or involve individuals who return home without notifying authorities. Human rights groups say there is a lack of significant efforts to locate
The bodies of five young men were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings. The car and the
A Mexican mother is dead after a shark bit her leg over the weekend, officials said. The incident happened Saturday a short distance from the beach in Melaque, just west of the seaport of Manzanillo, Rafael Araiza, the head of the local
An expensive private high school in Mexico said Wednesday it has suspended and may expel a student who was caught on video beating a parking lot attendant at his housing complex. It was the latest in a decade-long string of beatings of
Mexico’s president said Wednesday that two of four news photographers who were shot Tuesday are in serious condition, as prosecutors confirmed that a fifth journalist was shot and wounded the same day. The four photojournalists were shot near a military barracks in
Unidentified assailants on Tuesday wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, authorities said. Prosecutors in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero said all four had been taken to a hospital, but did not say whether their wounds
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro near Belize have hunted the meat and salmon-pink shells of queen conch for generations. As populations have shrunk in recent decades, Mexico has enforced limits and bans on catching
A statue of the Virgin Mary in the Mexican state of Colima that is reportedly weeping tears has drawn crowds of onlookers and questions about a potential miracle. The statue was first noticed “crying” in October — but videos of the statue’s
The explosion of a fireworks workshop near Mexico’s Gulf coast left at least four men killed, authorities in the central state of Puebla said Wednesday. The blast occurred Tuesday in the township of Xiutetelco, Puebla, near the border with the neighboring state