Mexico News

Mexican cartels have established business alliances with gangs operating in places like Afganistn and Turkey, in order to obtain and smuggle drugs to supply Europe and North America, according to investigator Edgardo Buscaglia, a fellow at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico .

On Thursday, a freight train derailed in southern Mexico. It wasn't just any cargo train, though: It was La Bestia - "the Beast" - the infamous train many Central American immigrants ride through Mexico on their way to the United States.

Ceremonial masks and colorful Oaxacan animals are the focus of the last two shops on this gallery tour .

Army soldiers captured a regional boss of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel in the central state of Puebla, Mexico's defense department said.

Authorities said Friday they had rescued eight Salvadoran migrant youths who had been kidnapped by an equally youthful gang in northern Mexico.

By its very name, the AltaMed fundraiser East L.A. Meets Napa and Beyond appears to focus on the grapes of Northern California more than those of Mexico.

An eagle flies over Bali's Barat National Park, in this award-winning image taken by a camera attached to a drone.

Four people are dead following the crash of a small plane in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

U.S. Marine reservist Andrew Paul Tahmooressi appeared before a Mexican judge for only the second time since he was arrested here April 1 for entering Mexico with military-grade weapons.

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, a newly arrived person who was caught in Arizona by the U.S. .

A U.S. effort to discourage immigrants' repeated attempts to enter the country illegally by dropping them back in Mexico hundreds of miles away from where they were caught has been sharply scaled back after producing relatively modest gains.

Police rescued 165 Central American and Cuban migrants from kidnappers in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican authorities said Thursday.

In September President for up to $30 million. Mexican President Jos Joaqun Herrera, aware in advance of Slidell's intention of dismembering his country, refused to receive him.

As violence and cartel activity is becoming increasingly common near the border, citizen vigilante groups in Mexico--armed with rifles and machetes--are attempting to curb the crime on their own.

An ancient megalopolis built in a drained lake rimmed by mountains, Mexico City consistently flies under the radar.

Brian Duran, 14, of Comayagua, Honduras collects his line-dried laundry at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, June 3, 2014.

Authorities in southern Mexico say a cargo train derailed without causing any injuries to about 1,300 Central American migrants who had jammed onto the freight cars on their way north toward the United States.

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Two days of gun battles in a southern Mexican town have left 13 people dead, officials said Thursday.

Mexico City, July 10 Mexico's Health Secretary Mercedes Juan plans to present the results of Mexico's efforts to fight obesity and diabetes to the UN in compliance with international agreements, officials said.

A decade ago, Jose Hernandez got a DUI in Richmond. He cut a deal with police to dismiss his case if he worked as an informant, setting up drug deals and introducing the dealers to undercover officers, his attorney said.