Mexico News

By Mica Rosenberg

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans are jumping to the defense of the jalapeno pepper, maligned by U.S. health inspectors in a salmonella scare but loved by millions in its ancient home and growing in popularity north of the border.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it found a jalapeno pepper contaminated with the strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people and warned everyone across the United States to stop eating them.

But the warning did little to dampen the appetite for jalapenos in Mexico, where the spicy green pepper is heaped on tacos and sandwiches at almost every street corner.

Peru's Southern Copper Corp. on Thursday said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from the year-ago period amid strikes and higher fuel and production costs.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico : A Mexican police official says gunmen have killed a state prison director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

It is not often that undocumented immigrants sneak into the United States and then alert authorities to their whereabouts, but three men trapped in a sweltering rail car had little choice and used a cell phone ...

More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.

Brownsville police officers duck away from flying debris as they try to move an awning out of a downtown street in Brownsville, Texas.

It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak.

A group of four South Koreans and one Chinese were freed by their kidnappers in Mexico on Wednesday morning, where they had been held since July 14.

U.S. and Mexican officials are investigating whether a concrete barrier inside a drainage tunnel running under Nogales led to a costly flood on the Mexican side of the border.

At least 22 people have been killed in two highway accidents in northern Mexico, EFE news agency reported on Tuesday citing officials and media reports.

A man accused of the shotgun killing eight years ago of a 17-year-old girl over a perceived slight will face trial for murder and assault with a firearm, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Fifteen minutes after KeKe the African elephant died in May, the Dallas Zoo received its first fax imploring that Jenny, her lone companion, be moved to an elephant sanctuary.

Five South Koreans were abducted in a Mexican border city, officials said Tuesday.

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Oil prices rose Monday on concerns that potential new sanctions against Iran may escalate tensions in the Middle East, and as traders kept an eye on a tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico.

It's hotter than the Sahara out there. Well, not quite, but Texas and the African desert do have something in common when it comes to explaining the area's summer swelter: Latitude 30.

It looks like any Southern California traffic jam - except you can buy a cappuccino and a 4-foot statue of Jesus from your car while watching dogs sniff vehicles for drugs.

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said Friday that it is honoring U.S. Sen.

"Cocaine?" a hustler working Tijuana's seedy Avenida Revolucion called out on a recent night, his voice not the least bit muted.

There is a fierce behind-the-scenes battle for influence over presumptive Democratic candidate Barack Obama's Hispanic and Latin American agenda, and some Democratic strategists say that its outcome could ...