Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said.
Ernesto Zedillo said in a court filing Friday that his status as Mexico's former president gives him immunity from being prosecuted for a massacre in 1997 that left 45 people dead in a Chiapas village.
Soldiers looking for drugs in the southern border state of Chiapas instead found 140 migrants inside a tractor-trailer.
Earlier this month, an AeroMexico plane made an important flight from Mexico City to Madrid. The flight wasn't notable for who was inside the cabin, but for what was inside the fuel tank: it was the world's first transatlantic commercial flight using biofuel.
Mexican authorities said they found and detained more than 500 illegal immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two tractor-trailers heading toward the United States on Tuesday.
In Mexico, a man who tried to journey illegally into the United States to seek work vows that he will never again leave his home.
A landslide in southern Mexico left 12 dead and 14 injured, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing civil protection officials. Four people were also reported missing.
Two people were killed and one more injured when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in southern Mexico on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
Officials in Mexico's Chiapas state postponed classes Friday for more than 1 million students in an effort to avoid a resurgence of H1N1 flu, which has sickened thousands throughout Mexico this year.
The Mexican Supreme Court has ordered the release of 20 people who were convicted in the massacre of 45 people in 1997.
One Mexican tourist died and another was missing Tuesday after a wave dragged them out into the Pacific Ocean, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
The Mexican navy said Wednesday that it rescued five Ecuadorians who had been adrift without supplies in a fishing boat for more than two weeks off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas.
A former anti-drug czar in Mexico has been arrested on corruption charges in his home state of Chiapas, officials said.
The discovery of a man's bullet-riddled body this week in Ciudad Juarez added grim proof that drug-fueled violence is continuing in Mexico where it left off last year -- with more slayings and mutilated corpses dumped in out-of-the-way places.
The record number of killings in Mexico continues to climb, with the discovery of eight bodies stuffed in black garbage bags in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, authorities said.
Home to up to 10 percent of all known species, Mexico is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.
Ever heard of 'ecosystem services'? It's one of the most exciting concepts kicking around the corporate-environmental world these days.
White sand beaches, tropical rain forests and colorful coral reefs -- southern Mexico would appear to have it all.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook Oaxaca, Mexico.
For the first time in Mexican First Division history, the trophy sits in one of the country's most well-known resort towns.
Rescue officials were searching for more than a dozen missing people after a landslide wiped out a hamlet in southern Mexico.
The Calderon government is getting praise for limiting the damage. But the disaster's causes and its consequences are issues yet to be dealt with
Ready to fend off looters, some flood victims in Mexico refuse to leave their homes. CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico Thursday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A massive international sweep targeting violent MS-13 gang members in the United States and Central America produced about 660 arrests, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.
Most Americans know about the flood of Mexican immigrants into the United States, but many may not realize that there's a growing movement in the opposite direction.
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