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Rotting meat stench from US-backed screwworm fly plant triggers protests in...
Town residents are demanding the relocation of a plant that breeds sterile flies to fight the spread of a parasite that has disrupted Mexico-U.S. cattle trade since November 2024.
In Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, clay is more than earth
It's not just clay that makes the pottery from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, so special, but the culture of the people who make it, writes Ena Aguilar Peláez.
Acapulco will work with Quintana Roo’s tourism sector to lure back...
While still a favorite coastal destination of Mexico residents, Acapulco's popularity among international tourists has waned in recent decades, partly due to increased competition. Now it plans to partner with one of those competitors.
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From Elvis to the Ariels: Acapulco’s cliff divers step out of the postcard to...
An award-winning documentary reveals the human stories, struggles and courage behind Acapulco’s legendary cliff divers of La Quebrada.
Mexico’s fastest-growing states aren’t the ones having the most children
Why are Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur leading the country for population growth, even as their birth rates plummet?
Authorities present 4 new lines of investigation in Ayotzinapa case
Deputy Interior Minister Arturo Medina and Mauricio Pazarán presented on Monday four lines of investigation they consider to be new and relevant to advancing the case of 43 students who were disappeared in Guerrero in 2014, for which there have been hundreds of arrests but no convictions.
Oaxaca AG launches investigations into 6 municipal presidents with alleged organized crime ties
All six cases described by Attorney General Bernardo Rodríguez are related to Juchitán — the third-largest city in Oaxaca — and feature a wide variety of charges related to alleged organized crime activities.
How Oaxaca’s La Ventanilla turned tourism into conservation
After providing a sanctuary for sea turtles, crocodiles and the mangroves that protect the Oaxaca coast, La Ventanilla emerged as one of Mexico's best ecotourism destinations.
The strange, ancient bird hiding in Mexico’s cloud forests
The endangered horned guan is found only Guatemala and parts of Chiapas, but this strange and wonderful bird is worth seeing in the wild, writes Bob Pateman.
Mayor of Juchitán, Oaxaca, arrested over alleged CJNG ties, triggering blockades and protests
Juchitán, Oaxaca mayor Miguel Sánchez Altamirano was detained on extortion charges over alleged ties to CJNG-linked group Los Cromos, triggering road blockades and protests.
Hurricane Polo, having regained strength, drenches the Pacific coast and heads for Baja
The Pacific cyclone has behaved oddly, intensifying from a “disorganized tropical depression” to a dangerous Category 5 hurricane with unprecedented speed, and reaching high temperatures unrecorded since 2005.
Southwest residents on alert as ‘dangerous’ Hurricane Polo moves up Mexico’s Pacific coast
The Category 5 hurricane triggered school closings in Guerrero and Michoacán and is dumping rain on southwestern states. It is expected to continue to do both at least through Wednesday.
Mass nesting event brings more than 100,000 olive ridley sea turtles to Oaxaca’s Playa...
As high as that figure sounds, only about 30%-40% of the eggs are likely to hatch, and then it's thought that perhaps one in a thousand of the resulting hatchlings reach adulthood.
