Nuevo León Gov. Jaime Rodriguez Calderón, whose state includes the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, says some 12 people were hospitalized following Wednesday night's riot.
For the first time its history, Mexico announced it would recognize people of African descent on its official census. What does it mean for Afro-Mexicans themselves — and why has it taken so long?
Mexican authorities said they put Ethan Couch on a plane in Mexico City. The 18-year-old, who was on probation for killing four people while driving drunk, had fled to Mexico with his mother.
On a morning radio program, the head of Mexico's extradition office also warned that possible legal challenges could delay the entire extradition process to the U.S. for four to six years.
Nearly six months after his most recent escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán has been caught, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced.
The 18-year-old and his mother were apprehended in Mexico on Monday, and were due to arrive in the U.S. on Wednesday. Ethan Couch was granted a temporary stay, but his mother was deported.
Unions are virtually non-existent in the northern Mexico factories around Juarez. But now some 300 workers are trying to unionize to push for higher wages and other benefits.
The new bridge means one of the world's only airports built across two countries now operates on the U.S.-Mexico border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana.