Mexican authorities have arrested a man they say shot an American freelance journalist to death at a 2006 protest, state media reported.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has opened an investigation into reports that some indigenous communities in the country continue to practice the ancestral custom of selling their daughters.
Mexico tourism is having a bit of a PR problem lately.
The fight between people smugglers and U.S. patrols also takes place in a network of tunnels under the border.
One of Mexico's most-wanted fugitives, an original member of the violent Zetas drug cartel, has been arrested in southern Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
About 50 Central American immigrants were kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month from a train crossing through Mexico, a Salvadoran official told CNN en Español Wednesday. The government of Mexico has not confirmed or denied the incident.
The mayor-elect of a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz was abducted and killed Monday, the government-run news agency reported.
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.
Located in the mountainous northeast region of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec is home to 9,000 mostly indigenous people who live in very marginalized conditions.
As of Tueday night there were no confirmed fatalities and 11 possible missing persons as the result of a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Gov. Ulises Ruiz told CNN.
Up to 1,000 people may have been trapped by a landslide in the southwestern Mexico state of Oaxaca.
Several Mexican politicians were killed in a plane crash in a Pacific resort town Friday, authorities said.
As Hurricane Frank gained strength far from land over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday morning, southern Mexico dealt with the aftermath of the system's assault on the mainland earlier in the week.
Four people died and at least 30,000 residents in southern Mexico were affected by heavy rain and winds from the former Tropical Storm Frank, which intensified into a hurricane Wednesday morning as it moved out into the Pacific Ocean, the government-run Notimex news agency said.
Four people died and at least 30,000 residents were affected in southern Mexico as a result of heavy rain and winds from then-Tropical Storm Frank, which has now intensified into a hurricane, the government-run Notimex news agency said Wednesday.
An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, CNNMexico.com reported Thursday, citing state police.
Polls opened in Mexico on Sunday in an election that could provide a boost for the opposition party amid concerns over escalating violence.
Two high-ranking public officials were shot and killed in Mexico late Wednesday, making for four such attacks in the past two weeks. Three of the deadly assaults happened this week.
A strong earthquake hit southern Mexico's Oaxaca state early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
I grew up in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. My father was a university professor, and my mother is a beautiful Mixtec woman. (The Mixtec group is one of 16 indigenous groups in the State of Oaxaca, in the southeastern part of Mexico).
As you walk into Casa Ramirez, a Mexican folk art store in Houston's Heights neighborhood, you'll need a moment to recover from the sensory overload.
I pop the toasted grasshopper right in my mouth.
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Mexico's ruling party has rejected calls for a cease-fire from a small rebel group blamed for last year's bomb attacks on gas and oil pipelines.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook Oaxaca, Mexico.
Of all of Mexico's attractions - white sand beaches, majestic ruins, the afternoon margarita - my favorite must be the mercado.
Tropical Storm Henriette formed off Mexico's Pacific coast Friday and was forecast to move parallel to the mainland, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said.
Bombs go off in Oaxaca as local elections approach, bringing fears of a return to last year's civil strife
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The Mexican Congress has called on the embattled governor of Oaxaca state to step aside in a bid to restore order after five months of often violent protests that have paralyzed the state's capital city.
Hurricane John's outer bands lashed Mexico's western coast Tuesday night as the powerful Category 3 storm threatened to cause flooding and ruin vacations in some Pacific resorts.
Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has again been named the world's best city by readers of the U.S. magazine Travel and Leisure.
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.
References to eco-tours are popping up in magazines, guidebooks and ads for everything from rainforest tours in Bangladesh to birding trips through Oaxaca, Mexico.
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