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Sheinbaum promised Thursday to adopt an expert panel’s recommendation to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Tampico-Misantla basin in Veracruz, citing risks to biodiversity, water supplies and densely populated communities.


The U.S. State Deparment announcement was followed by the deployment of 300 Michoacán state security operatives and 1,500 federal troops in the state’s avocado-growing belt.

Ángel Aguirre was governor during the 2014 kidnapping and presumed murder of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College that sparked international outrage. He is accused, among other things,…

Health officials say that cause-and-effect cannot be assumed and that Mexico’s 33 cases do not constitute a signficant outbreak, but inspectors are taking food and beverage samples up and down…

Washington also raised rewards for six other CJNG leaders and revoked visas for 65 relatives and associates tied to sanctioned traffickers.

The ex-Texas cop allegedly shot his former domestic partner and two other women and one man in the Coahuila state capital, leaving three dead and another seriously wounded before kidnapping…

Cardinal Pietro Parolin met with President Sheinbaum to discuss a papal visit invitation before presiding at a Mass calling for prayers for Mexico’s missing persons and “searching mothers.”

From an all-time low of 8.94 to a record high of 25.12 pesos per dollar, see how Mexico’s currency has swung in recent decades.


The first-ever Wirikuta water festival begins today in San Luis Potosí to discuss the ongoing water crisis in Mexico as it affects local communities like the Indigenous Wixárika people.

Immigration has always flowed both ways across the over 3,000 kilometer border between the U.S. and Mexico, writes Lydia Carey, with impacts that affect everything from gentrification to the Mexico…

On Sept. 28, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo marched into Guanajuato with a ragtag army of tens of thousands at his back, kicking off the Mexican War of Independence. But…


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