She had a running headstart to her photography career as the daughter of a camera shop owner in the Zapotec community of Villa Hidalgo Yalálag in Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte.

The quetzal has a long history in Mexico, but birdwatchers nowadays will mainly find them in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas.

Despite warnings from foreign governments, Guerrero has a lot to offer visitors to the lush Pacific coast.

Morena party Mayor of Taxco, Guerrero, Juan Andrés Vega Carranza set out to find his 68-year-old father after he was abducted by armed men on Saturday, but was allegedly kidnapped while he was trying to negotiate his release.

In a mashing and mixing session that lasted approximately two and a half hours, 800 volunteers produced a giant vat of green guacamole weighing over 7 tonnes in Tancítaro, Michoacán.

The croc may have been wandering after being displaced from its usual home, a phenomenon that has led to increasing out-of-place crocodile spottings along the Jalisco and Oaxaca coasts.

The sacking of the sanctuary, as caught on video, was so blatant that Profepa rushed out a press release assuring angry internet users that their personnel has already been out to the beach and were investigating.

Made up of Haitians, Cubans, Central Americans and Venezuelans who were stuck in southern Mexico, the caravan's aim is to find work and start a new life in northern Mexico.

In just the past week, the Mexican Navy carried out hundreds of operations in central and western Mexico, netting more than 200 drug trafficking arrests and nearly two tonnes of seized narcotics.

Coconuts have been part of Guerrero's history — for good and ill — for nearly 500 years, since the first coconut palms were brought from the Philippines.