Veracruz, Mexico News

June 1, 1660: Quaker Mary Dyer hanged on Boston Common for heretical preaching. 1914: Eighty militia men refuse to board train as reinforcement for US invasion of Veracruz, Mexico.

Gisela Genschow grew up in Hamburg, Germany's major port city and home to The Hamburg Ballet.

A vessel captain in charge of towing Shell's troubled oil drilling rig, the Kulluk, when it left a Seattle shipyard back in June said Tuesday that the gear was more than strong enough, the crews were qualified and that under the right conditions, a winter transit through the Gulf of Alaska could have been done safely.

Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.

The people of CunduacA n and Huimanguillo, which have a combined population of 300,000, will present a class action lawsuit against Pemex in June.

"Oh! It is so good to fly, at 2 in the morning, at 2 in the morning, it's so good to fly, oh mama! To fly and let yourself fall, into the arms of a lady ... The witch grabs me, she takes me to her home, she sits me on her lap, she gives me kisses ... 'Oh, tell me, tell me, tell me: How many creatures have you consumed?' 'Nobody, nobody! I only wish ... (more)

Regina Martinez had a premonition that she was courting danger in the months before her death.

Watauga County Schools announced Tuesday that Dr. David Fonseca will stay on as interim superintendent through June 30, 2014.

The plaintiffs are bringing the class action lawsuit under a 2011 reform of the Mexican constitution that allows a large number of people with a common interest in a matter to sue as a group.

The pre-Columbian Mexicans baked with corn, their staple food. The very indigenous tamales are one of the most ancient and traditional dishes which are still cooked and eaten throughout the country in the 21st century: a simple corn dough, with or without flavourings, sweet or salty, is wrapped in corn husks or perhaps banana leaves and then ... (more)

A view of Mexico's volcano Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl mountain as pictured from an airplane on November 17, 2012.

In 2010 I wrote a story about a new religious cult that appeared to be emanating from Mexico's terrible prisons and among members of the drug world.

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Mexico's main opposition parties said on Tuesday they would restart talks with the government on economic reforms after last month accusing the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party of trying to buy votes in a local election.

After Ana Delia Antanio-Chavez, a 31-year-old mother of two, was strangled to death in her home April 15, employees at her 6-year-old son's school and members of the family's church donated enough money to cover the cost of her funeral, as well as the expense of returning her body to her hometown in Veracruz, Mexico.

Sunday, May 5, marks Cinco de Mayo, a holiday most Americans celebrate by downing margaritas or cracking open a few Coronas.

There were 8,000 of them. The best fighting men in Europe, the pride of the French army.

The saying is, "On Cinco de Mayo, everybody's Latino!" For more than two decades, the Maru Montero Dance Company has hosted an annual May 5 festival to commemorate Mexico's victory in the 1862 Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.

Mexican President Enrique PeA a Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are going through a crisis of confidence similar to the one provoked by Watergate in the early 1970s.