MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project that were driven directly through the roofs of sensitive limestone caves on the Yucatan peninsula. The network of caves, sinkhole lakes and underground
Mexico’s army appears to be conducting raids on only a few active drug labs each month, despite U.S. pressure to combat fentanyl trafficking. Data shows that out of the 527 labs raided in Mexico during the first seven months of the year,
Mexico’s Health Department on Friday ordered the temporary closure of a melon-packing plant implicated in salmonella infections that killed five people in Canada and three in the United States. The department did not name the company involved, but Canada’s Public Health Agency
The Mexican government announced Thursday that its controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as missing has turned up 16,681 individuals who had returned to their homes but not notified the authorities. The nationwide effort was widely viewed as an attempt
Mexico’s president said Friday the country’s minimum wage will rise by 20% in 2024, to the equivalent of about $14.25 per day. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FORCES FREIGHT LINES TO PRIORITIZE PASSENGER RAIL About one-third of Mexico’s registered workers report earning the minimum wage,
Mexico’s ruling Morena party, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, appears to have avoided a desertion crisis in the leadup to the country’s 2024 elections. Morena was expected to face potential dissolution because of its base largely consisting of a cult
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Zapatista indigenous rebel movement in southern Mexico said in a statement posted Monday it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a brief rebellion to
Hurricane Norma is approaching Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts, with sustained winds of up to 110 miles per hour being reported as the storm creeps up the Pacific coast. Tropical Storm Tammy, meanwhile, has been upgraded to hurricane status as it threatens the
Mexico’s president says the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Honduras will attend a summit on migration that Mexico will host Sunday. The four countries are among the biggest sources of migrants currently showing up at the U.S. border. BLINKEN, OTHER TOP
Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has declined a U.S. request to establish migrant transit centers within Mexico, while Guatemala has set up similar centers for migrants to apply for U.S. work and refugee visas. President López Obrador prefers these centers to