‘Canelo’ Alvarez pummels Berlanga to retain super middleweight boxing belts Undisputed super middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez outpoints challenger Edgar Berlanga. Al Jazeera · Sep 15, 2024
What is the fallout from the US arrest of the drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada? Experts warn that attacking the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders could lead to violence, not to mention tense foreign relations. Al Jazeera · Aug 8, 2024
Total solar eclipse frenzy grips North America The eclipse will be visible along a path starting in Mexico and then crossing through the US and into Canada. Al Jazeera · Apr 8, 2024
‘I’m not afraid’: Ecuador’s assassinated presidential candidate who fought the cartels Killing of Fernando Villavicencio ahead of elections comes as country struggles with surge in drug-related violence The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2023
Mexico City's thirst for water lays bare inequalities, changing climate Every day, at a well near her home in Central Mexico, Isabel Solis fills plastic jugs with river water and loads them on her donkey to lug home for the day's cooking, cleaning and drinking. Reuters · Apr 27, 2023
Ukraine's Zelenskiy urges Mexico to help deliver his peace plan Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday urged Mexico to help make the case in Latin America for his peace plan for Ukraine, even as tensions persist within the country's ruling party about offering support to Kyiv. Reuters · Apr 20, 2023
Mexican probe into missing students beset by delays and failure, watchdog says Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation. Reuters · Mar 31, 2023
Mexico government to challenge Supreme Court suspension of electoral reform The Mexican government said Sunday it would challenge the Supreme Court's temporary suspension of parts of a controversial electoral reform pushed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Reuters · Mar 26, 2023
Analysis-Venezuela revived opposition talks highlight strengthened Maduro position Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro will enter upcoming talks with the South American country's opposition in a strengthened position that could be bolstered further by a deal to release more than $3 billion in humanitarian funds, analysts said. Reuters · Nov 29, 2022
In Mexico, Aztec dig sets new records as royal mystery deepens An extensive cache of Aztec ritual offerings found underneath downtown Mexico City, off the steps of what would have been the empire's holiest shrine, provides new insight into pre-Hispanic religious rites and political propaganda. Reuters · Nov 24, 2022
Strong nighttime earthquake jolts sleeping Mexicans, at least one death reported A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Mexico early on Thursday, claiming the life of a woman in Mexico City who fell and hit her head as residents evacuated their homes during the country's second major temblor this week. Reuters · Sep 22, 2022