Mexico

Mexico

Voting under way in Mexico election

Mexicans have begun voting for a new president in an election that could sharpen divisions with US President Donald Trump over migration and trade.

01/07/2018

Mexico

Mexicans vote for their next President

As municipal workers remove political signs and stickers from walls and posts the day before voting, Mexicans go to the polls on Sunday for their next President. They'll be choosing for either a left-wing political change or for continuity.

30/06/2018

Mexico

Mexico: election campaigns end

As the campaigns close for the Mexican elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) is the hot favourite to win Mexico's presidency

28/06/2018

Mexico

Violence, corruption, and young voters: Mexican elections explained

Mexicans go to the polls on Sunday amidst historic levels of violence in their country.

26/06/2018

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Mexico City breaks Guinness record for simultaneous foosball-playing

Over 1,000 people gathered in Mexico City's Zocalo to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneous foosball-playing,

25/06/2018

Mexico

Mexico World Cup celebrations trigger earthquake sensors

Fans literally shook the earth after their team scored in the 1-0 victory against Germany.

18/06/2018

Mexico

The oldest dinosaur has been discovered in Mexico

The Acantholipan gonzalezi lived 85 million years ago and was found in the Ocampo region of Coahuila by palaeontologists at the acclaimed Desert Museum

13/06/2018

Mexico

Relief as mural painters are rescued from dangling scaffold in Mexico

The four painters were stranded for several hours before rescuers managed to get them down to safety

29/05/2018

Cult

New collection of Frida Kahlo's work

The collection intends to portray a more private side of the artist with works rarely found on public display,

24/05/2018

Mexico

Mexico bans 17 'false' transgender women running in local elections

A Mexican state electoral body banned 17 men from various parties masquerading as transgender candidates in the upcoming elections.

14/05/2018

Mexico

Europeans on round-the-world cycling trip ‘were murdered’

Authorities previously claimed the Polish and German cyclists, whose bodies had been found at the bottom of a ravine in Mexico, had died in an accident.

12/05/2018

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Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo

The holiday has caught the imagination of Mexicans and other Latinos around the world, particularly those living in United States

06/05/2018

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Small groups from caravan of asylum seekers cross to US

A group of women and children passed through to the US side of the border with Mexico on Wednesday, part of the caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States

03/05/2018

Mexico

Hundreds of migrants at U.S. border given stark warnings

Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans who angered President Trump after being part of a month-long caravan could be forced to split from their families if they cross the border in Mexico.

29/04/2018

Mexico

Kidnapped Mexican students were killed, dissolved in acid police say

The three film students are believed to have been mistaken for gang members

25/04/2018

Mexico

The Afghan football coach training Mexican street kids for their own 'World Cup'

Khalida Popal was the first captain of the woman's football team in Afghanistan until she was forced to flee after receiving death threats from the Taliban.

12/04/2018

Mexico

Trump warns Mexico on frontier immigration

US President tells Republicans to "go nuclear" to stop the flow.

02/04/2018

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Monkey on the loose stalls traffic in Mexico City

A small monkey was on the loose in Mexico City on Tuesday, hours after escaping its enclosure in a private home and making a dash for freedom.

28/03/2018

Musica

Uniting cultures: Gustavo Dudamel's Americas tour with the Vienna Phil

From New York to Buenos Aires via Mexico City: The Vienna Philharmonic and maestro Gustavo Dudamel enthuses audiences on their Americas tour, overcoming borders through music.

22/03/2018

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Spring equinox celebrated at ancient sun-worshipping site in Mexico

Visitors embrace the light at the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan.

22/03/2018

Travel News

24 hours in Mexico City

Fulls of sights and wonderful experiences, the Mexican capital is not what you might expect.

15/03/2018

Travel News

24 hours in Tulum

A paradise that has been appreciated for centuries.

05/03/2018

Mexico

Dust cloud "disorientated" Mexican helicopter crash pilot

At least 13 people were killed when the military aircraft crash landed on a small town hit by Friday's massive earthquake

18/02/2018

Mexico

Notorious drug cartel leader arrested in Mexico City

José María Guízar Valencia, known by his Zetas code name, "Z 43." is wanted in the US, which had offered a $5 million reward for his arrest.

10/02/2018

Mexico

World's largest underwater cave could unearth Maya secrets

Archaelogists say a 350km cave network off the Yucatan peninsula will enable more understanding of the ancient Maya civilisation.

18/01/2018

Mexico

Journalist killed in Mexico at son's school

A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday in the southern Mexican state of Veracruz as he attended a Christmas celebration at his son's school, the latest murder in the country's deadliest year on record for media workers.

20/12/2017