Veracruz, Mexico News

Mexican singer Gloria Trevi arrives for her wedding in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday, Dec.

If you've missed out on the avant-gardish art of the past couple of decades - some people make a point of doing so - you now have a one-stop chance to catch up on the good parts.

If you haven't been following the many activities and projects of Mel Gibson , let me get you up to speed.

Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and the state-run oil ...

Valentin Cruz had never thought about organ donation until his brother died. Now the donation will help others.

The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujos brujos -- witch doctors -- in his family.

Mexican prosecutors say they have arrested a suspect wanted by the FBI in the 2004 rapes of two young girls in Pennsylvania.

Viva Gibson : A Mexican governor spilled the beans on a new Mel Gibson film that will be shot in Veracruz, where Apocalypto was filmed, next year.

Is everyone ready for another Mel Gibson -directed period movie? THR is reporting a very odd bit of news tonight.

A Mexican governor says Mel Gibson will make a movie at a prison in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz next year.

This time of year is when the lines usually swell at Ivette Reyes's money transfer business, as customers transmit extra money to their relatives in Mexico.

A biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, known as PZ "Little Paul" Myers, has no claim to fame beyond an infantile expression of bigotry that went viral, much like a flu virus.

AFTER MORE than 10 years of planning, and some false starts, it looks as if Mexico will finally gain the petrochemical investment it needs.

The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum is hosting the critically acclaimed traveling exhibition, "The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present," through July 4, 2010.

A twist of fate helped Jorge and Mildred Bolanos find the right location for their La Capilla Restaurant, formerly La Chapelle, at the corner of Main and Church streets in Old Town Manassas.

Goldgroup Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the Company has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with NGEx Resources Inc.

By Kirsten Korosec Nov 25, 2009 Halliburton's biggest Mexican customer, Petroleos Mexicanos , is reducing its exploration plans in the Burgos field and others in Veracruz and southern Mexico, a move that will squeeze the oil field company's profits in the fourth quarter.

Children play in one of a Tlacotalpan park. The strikingly pretty town in Veracruz state is characterized by its colonial-style architecture such as the church of San Miguelito, below.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:31 a.m. Economy expands: Mexico's economy, battered by the financial crisis, expanded for the first time in a year during the third quarter, growing 2.93 percent from the second quarter, official data showed Friday.

High tides recently cut off the Boca Grande section of Cartagena, in Colombia. Scientists say Latin American cities are at higher risk because sea levels will rise most near the equator.