Nine-year-old Alessia Ramos gently pets a hamster at a Mexican hospital where animals ranging from Australian parakeets to a Siberian Husky are being used to...

Latin America

Mexican mayor weds a reptile — and couldn’t be happier!

AFP - July 2, 2023

As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional...

Latin America

Alert level raised in Mexico due to Popocatepetl volcano activity

Tico Times - May 22, 2023

Mexican authorities raised the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano (central Mexico) on Sunday due to increasing activity that could affect aviation and even...

Latin America

Mexico Official arrested in fatal fire that claimed the lives of 40 migrants

AFP - April 17, 2023

A top Mexican immigration official has been arrested over a fire at a detention center last month that killed 40 migrants, according to federal...

immigration

Mexican Immigration Centers: A Look Inside the Prisons Disguised as Shelters

AFP - March 31, 2023

Luisa thought she was entering an office to regularize her stay in Mexico, but suddenly found herself detained. The death of 39 migrants in...

Latin America

Mexicans Exchange Messages and Condolences via app After Death

AFP - February 12, 2023

In Mexico, the country of colorful skulls and Santa Muerte, an app offers its users to send posthumous messages and record their last wishes...

Latin America

Nine migrants drown in US-Mexico border crossing attempt

AFP - October 11, 2022

At least nine migrants drowned and dozens of others were rescued after attempting to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico into the United...

Latin America

US lifts policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico

AFP - October 11, 2022

The US Department of Homeland Security announced Monday night it will end a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their applications...

Big money

Bitcoin use on rise to launder drug money, report says

AFP - March 11, 2022

Drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia are increasingly using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to launder money, the UN-linked International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said...