Mexico City

Mexico's pandemic-ravaged economy, the second largest in Latin America, shrank 8.5 percent in 2020.

Mexico's sprawling capital changed its official name on Friday, from DF to Mexico City, as it launched steps to become virtually like a federal state.

MEXICO CITY – A powerful and prolonged magnitude-6.4 earthquake was registered in the south of México, shaking the populous capital at noon on Thursday, according to authorities, which have not yet reported victims or damages.

MEXICO CITY – Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital Thursday for a lung infection but he was doing well, his son and officials said.

Juan Manuel Contreras, a church singer and laid-off electrical utility worker, had been honking his car horn and shouting through a megaphone out the window for the past half hour when he turned to me with a question one might only address to a newly arrived foreigner in Mexico. "Is this your first battle?"