Officials said the fight erupted following a dispute between leaders of two rival groups, including one led by a member of the Zetas drug cartel. The 60-year-old penitentiary houses 3,800 inmates, twice its capacity.
The bound body of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar was discovered on Tuesday with her head covered in bags in the state of Puebla. She was a 32-year-old mother of two, snatched from her home in the middle of the night.
Costa Rica vehemently denied rumors in Cuban migrant camps that the government was involved in a price-fixing scheme to increase the price of the tickets.
A second independent forensic investigation rejected on Tuesday the Mexican government's conclusion that 43 students who went missing in 2014 were incinerated at a garbage dump.
Wearing a straw hat, a polo shirt and jeans, Jorge slices the bulbs with a razor blade, releasing a sticky paste -- the raw material of a growing heroin epidemic feeding addicts in the United States and fueling violence in Mexico.
Mexican police arrested up to 24 members of the Sinaloa drug cartel in a joint operation with the United States that also netted a cache of heavy weaponry and drugs, officials said Sunday.
Mexico's economy expanded more than forecast for the fourth consecutive quarter in the final three months of the year as domestic consumption rebounded amid record low inflation.
Mexican authorities on Thursday deported a U.S. teenager known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal Texas drunk-driving accident, a month after the fugitive was caught at a resort.
San Cristóbal de las Casas is home to several hundred members of Mexico's growing Muslim community. The small, indigenous city in southern Mexico will greet Pope Francis in three weeks.
