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Mexican author highlights role of drug traffickers' wives in new book

Narco wives are often portrayed as naive, perhaps suffering from bad luck, fundamentally innocent, and without any control over their destiny. But to the Mexican author, these women are much more than that.

07/12/2021

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Dramatic breakout as gang rams vehicles into prison in Mexico

The incident is one of the most dramatic breakouts the country has seen in recent years.

02/12/2021

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Mexico's iconic Los Angeles dance hall reopens

Mexico City's iconic Los Angeles dance hall reopens after the easing of Covid-19 related restrictions. Revellers return to the dancefloor to the sound of mambo.

28/11/2021

Design

Meet the 11-year-old Mexican schoolboy tattooing the people of Peubla

He's only 11 years old, but the Brandon Burgos – whose father allows him to tattoo on the condition he gets good grades at school – already has around 30 creations to his name.

22/11/2021

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Mexico City comes back to life with Day of the Dead parade

In Mexico City, thousands of locals and tourists attend the Día de los Muertos parade which was cancelled last year.

02/11/2021

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Massive Day of the Dead commemorations in Mexico

The streets of downtown Mexico City turned into a festival on Sunday as thousands of people, many in costume, watched the Day of the Dead parade, an event that was suspended last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

01/11/2021

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Day of the Dead preps ramp up at market place

Just a few days away from the beginning of the annual Day of the Dead celebrations, Mexico City residents are out looking for sugar skulls, candy and paper decorations to decorate the burial places of their departed relatives.

29/10/2021

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Mexico City prepares for Day of the Dead parade

Preparations for the Day of the Dead parade are underway in Mexico City, after it was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

25/10/2021

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2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico

A group of about 2,000 mainly Central American migrants continued their mass exodus from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula Sunday, reaching a town about 16 miles away.

25/10/2021

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Statue swap in Mexico City as indigenous woman replaces Colombus

It comes as Mexico moves to erase symbols of the Spanish colonial era.

13/10/2021

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80 homes evacuated after Mexico landslide

A section of mountain on the outskirts of Mexico City gave way, plunging rocks the size of small homes onto a densely populated neighbourhood.

11/09/2021

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A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday night

A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday night

08/09/2021

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Mexican Supreme Court decriminalises abortion in 'historic ruling'

The decision annulled parts of the penal code in Coahuila, a northern Mexican state bordering Texas.

08/09/2021

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Strong earthquake hits near Acapulco, buildings sway in capital city

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Acapulco, Mexico on Tuesday night, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City more than 300 km away.

08/09/2021

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Mexico's National Guard detain Haitian migrants as they walked through the southern state of Chiapas

Dozens of migrants on Thursday were detained by officers of Mexico's migration authorities and the national guard, as they walked through the southern state of Chiapas on their way to the United States

03/09/2021

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At least 8 dead after Hurricane Grace hits Mexico's gulf coast

At least eight people, including children, died and three were missing after mudslides and flooding, said Cuitláhuac García, governor of Mexico's Veracruz state.

22/08/2021

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Venezuela's government and opposition hold talks in Mexico City

Venezuela's government and opposition discuss ending sanctions and holding elections in a bid to end a crippling political and economic crisis.

14/08/2021

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Mexico marks 500th anniversary of Spanish conquest of Aztec empire

President Obrador wants Spain to apologise for the conquest that caused the near-extermination of its indigenous peoples but Spain has refused.

14/08/2021

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Mexico march celebrates World's Indigenous Day

Hundreds of Indigenous people dressed in traditional clothing marched down Paseo de la Reforma, one of Mexico City's main avenues, to the National Palace to demand inclusiveness from the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

10/08/2021

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Masked man threatens to kill national news presenter in Mexico

In a video, a masked man claiming to represent Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel threatened to kill a news anchor for what he called unfair coverage.

10/08/2021

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US-Mexico border event brings families together

More than 200 families from El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, gathered Saturday with relatives from across the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border.

20/06/2021

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Derailed freight train that crushed homes

A freight train has derailed and toppled onto houses alongside the tracks in western Mexico, killing one resident and injuring three others.

17/06/2021

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Mexico president appears to hold key majority in elections

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party will have to rely on votes from its allies in the Workers Party and Green Party, but together they were expected to capture between 265 and 292 seats in the 500-seat chamber.

07/06/2021

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Gigantic sinkhole appears in central Mexico, worrying locals

A sinkhole that has been growing dozens of meters daily since last weekend is worrying the residents of a rural area of the Mexican state of Puebla, in the center of the country.

02/06/2021

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Mexico City subway after a train plunged from an overpass

A rail car which was left dangling from an overpass after part of Mexico City's metro collapsed, was transported in a convoy on Tuesday after it had been carefully lowered to the ground

05/05/2021

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Mexico City bridge collapses with metro train on it

At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when an elevated metro line collapsed in the Mexican capital on Monday as a train was passing

04/05/2021