Mexico

Migrants and asylum seekers are seen after spending the night in one of the car lanes off the San Ysidro Crossing Port on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on April 24, 2021. A group of migrants asked U.S. migration authorities to allo

National

As More Migrants Arrive, U.S. Expands Efforts To Identify And Admit Most Vulnerable

4:11pm May 12, 2021

More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable.

Emergency personnel search for survivors after a raised subway track collapsed Monday night in Mexico City.

World News

Mexico City Metro Train Derails, Killing At Least 23 And Injuring Dozens

11:08am May 04, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The subway train derailment occurred on Line 12 at Olivos Station in Mexico City. Photos from the scene show two train cars dangling precariously from the elevated track.

Pedestrians walk past Mexico's Consulate General in Los Angeles in October, shortly after ex-Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda's arrest at Los Angeles International Airport at the DEA's request. Charges were later dropped.

U.S.-Mexico Efforts Targeting Drug Cartels Have Unraveled, Top DEA Official Says

9:51pm May 03, 2021

by Brian Mann

A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.

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Vials of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego in December. Mexicans have gone to California, Florida and other states seeking vaccines as their country has struggled to roll them out.

Some Mexicans Travel To U.S. For COVID Vaccines As Their Country's Rollout Stumbles

2:34pm March 26, 2021

by Carrie Kahn

Some Mexicans with family ties or dual citizenship in the U.S., or who can afford the airfare, head north of the border to get vaccinated faster than the months of waiting for one back home.

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Maverick, a bar in Mexico, sits empty amid the pandemic. Missing its patrons, it launched a website recreating different sounds from the bar experience. The idea ended up touching many around the world.

This Bar Missed Its Patrons. Its Idea To Reach Them Touched Others Around The World

2:12pm March 26, 2021

by Kat Lonsdorf

One bar in Mexico decided to start a website recreating some of those sounds at your favorite bar for those confined at home. It was an idea that took off around the world.

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A woman lines up to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Mexico City on Feb. 17.

Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada

3:34pm March 19, 2021

by Tamara Keith

The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors.

Millions of monarch butterflies arrive each year in Mexico after travelling, in some cases, thousands of miles from the United States and Canada.

What Happened To The Butterflies? Climate, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Migration

9:41am February 26, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new report.

A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to almost 4 million people and shut down airports and roads.

National

Millions Lose Power In Texas, Northern Mexico As Blackouts And Bitter Cold Continue

1:12pm February 16, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the Texas National Guard to move people without heat and power into shelters.

A Salvadoran girl sits inside a camp for asylum-seekers on Sunday in Matamoros, Mexico, where some 600 people who left Central America have been waiting for immigration court hearings.

Biden Team Unveils New Asylum System To Replace Trump's 'Remain In Mexico'

11:46am February 12, 2021

by Alana Wise

President Biden has called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out.

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A male vermillion flycatcher perches atop an open branch on one of the many charred mesquites on our land, La Isla.

Arts

Learning To Love Bird Photography, Thanks To A 'Competitive Collaboration'

12:07pm January 24, 2021

by Gemina Garland-Lewis

Over just 10 days in November, Gemina Garland-Lewis photographed 42 bird species with her partner on their land in Mexico. It wasn't until recently, she writes, that birds made her "tick."