Mexico News
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A gas truck explosion demolished a maternity hospital in Mexico City, killing two babies and a nurse, injuring dozens and prompting desperate mothers to grab their newborns as the building crumbled around them.
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Human rights groups criticized Mexico's government on Wednesday for concluding that 43 students missing since September were killed, saying it was premature because unanswered questions remain in the case.
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Authorities in Mexico can now say with "legal certainty" that the 43 students who went missing in September were murdered by hitmen working for a drug gang, the justice minister said Tuesday.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging parents to get their children vaccinated against measles in light of the outbreak that began at Disneyland in California. The virus has now spread to six additional states and Mexico.
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Murders linked to organized crime dropped 33 percent in Mexico last year, official figures showed Friday, as the country struggles with a bloody drug war.
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A new armed group is on the rise in Mexico's violence-wracked Michoacan state. It's called Los Viagras, and its members say they are fighting for "social causes".
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A suspected member of a Mexican gang was arrested as part of an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students, authorities said Friday.
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Mexico's government Wednesday slammed as "baseless" military wrongdoing alleged by the parents of 43 college students missing and feared dead, rejecting the possibility of an investigation.
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Twenty central Mexico state officials are being investigated over allegations that witnesses of the suspected execution of gang suspects by soldiers were tortured, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Students and relatives of 43 missing aspiring teachers stormed a Mexican military base on Monday in the city where they vanished, prompting soldiers to repel them with tear gas.
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Veracruz -
Prosecutors want to speak to a Mexican mayor as part of an investigation into the kidnapping of a journalist by gunmen a week ago, authorities said Friday.
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Scenes of mayhem have flared up again in Mexico's troubled western state of Michoacan, putting the security spotlight back on a restive region that the government has struggled to tame.
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Grupo Vidanta, the largest and most luxurious group of resort properties in Mexico, celebrated its 40th anniversary last year and 2015 is shaping up to be another grand year of expansion, especially at the Nuevo Vallarta location.
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At least 10 decapitated bodies and 11 heads have been discovered in unmarked graves in violence-plagued Guerrero state in southern Mexico, authorities said.
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Washington -
President Barack Obama promised Tuesday the United States will be Mexico's steady partner as it fights the scourge of drug related violence.
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The wife of the ex-mayor of Iguala, the Mexican city where 43 college students went missing in September, has been ordered jailed indefinitely for organized crime, prosecutors said Monday.
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Pope Francis ushered in 2015 in typically unpredictable style on Thursday, launching an appeal for an end to war before light-heartedly teasing the many Mexicans in the crowd at St Peter's Square.
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Chased by police and surrounded, a drugged out Tijuana man deemed he had but one chance of escape—to jump for it! A local bystander caught the nail-biting plummet on video.
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The leader of one of Mexico's first anti-crime vigilante groups was arrested along with 26 supporters over a shootout that killed his son and 10 others, authorities said.
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A kidnapped priest in the violence-plagued Mexican state of Guerrero was found dead in an alley on Christmas day, the third such killing in the region in 2014.
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A pattern of crop circles appeared overnight on Christmas Eve in the municipality of Texcoco, in Mexico. The crop circles, believed to have been created by alien visitors in UFOs, are attracting hundreds of people who are flocking to the site.
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Some three thousand people took to the streets of downtown Mexico City on Friday, three months after the disappearance and likely massacre of 43 students.
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A Mexican soldier is suspected of strangling his six children and beating his wife to death before hanging himself, authorities said Wednesday.
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Family members of 43 missing Mexican students said Sunday they would continue pressing for answers over the fate of their sons throughout the holidays.
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Dozens of protesting students vandalised an SUV carrying the mayor of the Mexican coastal city of Acapulco on Friday, demanding justice over the presumed murder of 43 classmates.
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Digital Journal chats to the very positive-minded leader of the Ray Johnston Band about his recently released new album, the excellent No Bad Days.
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An armed group briefly seized about 60 Mexican reporters and their families and beat some of them for supposedly showing disrespect towards 43 missing students, a local journalist organization said Tuesday.
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Oslo -
A young man who disrupted the Nobel prize ceremony in Oslo by waving a Mexican flag streaked with red said Thursday he did it to denounce the alleged killing of students by Mexican authorities.
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Marquelia -
The family of the first victim identified among 43 missing Mexican students lamented the dashed dreams of the aspiring teacher Sunday, calling for justice in the case that has shocked the country.
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Edmonton -
December 1 was a day of action calling on Enrique Peña Nieto to resign as President of Mexico. A small demonstration was organized in Edmonton, Canada.
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Cave paintings in Tamaulipas INAH
The backside of the Quetzalpapalotl Complex and unearthed residential dwellings with vendors stalls with local art, Teotihuacan, Mexico.
South Afrika Vs. Mexico in Berlin with Corona beer and Die Fraktion
Maize in Mexico. ETC Group
The sun and the moon, legendary pair who keeps influencing Mexican life for ages, decoration of a wall in a hostel in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Mexicana Aircraft at Benito Juárez International Airport RichardMarcJ
Zapatista Army of National Liberation march in Chiapas, Mexico, December 21, 2012. ROAR
Mexican hospital Photo by Armando Argandar
2006 Oaxaca Protests R4che1
Reproduction of Leon Trocky images from the times of Russian Revolution, Leon Trocky Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico City.
Cartels have massive influence across the whole of Latin America. US CONGRESS, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Volcano Popocatepetl (in 2009) NASA
Requiring more than 300 hours to complete, Sagrado Corazon de Jesus greets visitors at the front entrance to Casa de Azucar in El Paso.
In the archaeological site of Kabah, Yucatan, INAH researchers found the space where food for the elite of this Maya city was prepared. INAH - Gov't of Mexico
Hotel Riu Emerald Bay in Mexico's Mazatlan resort region, where on Saturday, January 21, 2012, a young Canadian woman in her 20s, was found very badly beaten and unconscious in an elevator Riu
Detail from The Arsenal, 1928, by Diego Rivera. The work, painted for the Mexican Ministry Of Education in 1928 to promote national pride and culture, clearly reflects the artist's passion for politics. Frida Kahlo is depicted in the center of the work, handing out weapons to peasants. If Rivera was dedicated to the vision of Mexico enjoying a socialist future, then he found his equal in Frida Kahlo, whose background and education provided a solid grounding for political engagement.
Smugglers jack up a security fence and casually smuggle drugs into the United States Screen Capture
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