Millions of Mexicans pay for everything from food to medicine with cash from relatives working in the U.S. Now, the money may allow them to get car loans in a country where a large swath of the population has no access to credit.
Authorities have expanded the search for 43 missing students in Mexico who vanished after they were abducted by corrupt police in 2014, a government official said.
A new study found that Mexico's skyrocketing homicide rate in recent years has reversed a trend of rising life expectancy among men and halted gains for women.
TEMIXCO, Mexico – When gunmen burst into her home, the freshly-installed mayor of Temixco, south of Mexico City, Gisela Mota, told them to leave her family alone and surrendered to them, witnesses recalled.
A central Mexico state took over police command in several towns on Sunday after a mayor was assassinated, a crime described as a gang threat to other mayors.
They are among the 5,000 people who are listed as "disappeared" in Tamaulipas, the northeastern Mexican state with the most missing people in Mexico, where a total of 26,000 have vanished amid a brutal, nearly decade-old drug war.
A record 79 private companies, including Engie of France and Pacific Exploration and Production Corp. of Colombia, have qualified to bid in the Dec. 15 auction now that Mexico's new laws have opened oilfield development to private companies.
A Coca-Cola advertisement has caused a furor in Mexico as an indigenous group said Wednesday the images of young white people building a Christmas tree in its community had racist connotations.
A bill moving through Costa Rica’s legislature would tighten the rules meant to keep the country’s beaches open to everyone, setting minimum standards for...
Deep in northern Costa Rica, near the Nicaraguan border, a slow-motion environmental catastrophe is unfolding with the speed and impunity of a gold rush....
