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6 More Graves Found Near Mexican Town Where 43 Students Vanished

12:16pm October 16, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

Nineteen graves have now been found near Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero. Authorities said DNA tests showed that 28 bodies recently discovered in five graves were not those of the students.

Groups of rural and community police arrive in the city of Iguala on Tuesday to help in the search for 43 students who disappeared after a confrontation with local police on Sept. 26.

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43 Missing Students, 1 Missing Mayor: Of Crime And Collusion In Mexico

7:04pm October 10, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

The town at the center of the students' disappearance has a history of political and police corruption. The mayor's own mother-in-law said he was on a drug gang's payroll, earning $155,000 a month.

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A woman wears a black veil and carries a cross reading in Spanish "Assassin State," as thousands march down one of the capital's main boulevards to demand that the government find the 43 students who disappeared in southern Guerrero State.

Authorities Find Four New Mass Graves In Mexico

3:34pm October 10, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

It's still unclear whether the bodies that have been found belong to the 43 students who went missing nearby.

A student of Guerrero State carries a portrait of a disappeared person, during a protest in Mexico City, on Wednesday.

In Mexico, Protesters Demand Return Of 43 Missing Students

7:46pm October 08, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

Meanwhile, authorities said they still have not been able to identify 28 bodies found in clandestine graves.

Relatives of students reported missing after a violent confrontation in Iguala with police, pass the time near a makeshift altar as they wait for news of their loved ones at the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico.

Mexican President Says He's 'Indignant' Over Case Of Missing Students

3:38pm October 06, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

Over the weekend, police found the mass graves that are thought to contain the bodies of some of the students.

A Mexican navy marine guards the road that leads to the site where an alleged clandestine mass graves were found near the city of Iguala, Mexico.

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Mass Graves Found In Mexico, Near Place Where 43 Students Went Missing

3:08pm October 05, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

The students were last seen being forced into police vans. The mass graves gave rise to fears that the missing students may be dead.

Waves hit the coast of Los Cabos, Mexico, on Sunday as Hurricane Odile nears landfall in the largely tourist area of the Baja California peninsula.

Mexican Resort Town Pummeled By Powerful Hurricane Odile

1:02pm September 15, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The Category 3 cyclone, the strongest on record to hit the region, slammed the tourist destination of Cabo San Lucas and will weaken as it moves up the Baja California peninsula, forecasters say.

Migrants at a shelter in southern Mexico say that Mexico's interior checkpoints are making it harder to travel north. Some have given up on reaching the U.S. and are trying to stay in Mexico.

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Mexican Crackdown Slows Central American Immigration To U.S.

9:24pm September 12, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

Under pressure from the United States, Mexico has begun arresting and deporting tens of thousands of Central Americans long before they reach the U.S. border.

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In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, diver Susan Bird, working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, brushes the Naia skull found at the site.

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Ancient Skeleton In Mexico Sheds Light On Americas Settlement

2:40pm August 28, 2014

by Scott Neuman

DNA from a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl found in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula shows the same markers found in modern Native Americans.

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Born In The U.S., But Struggling To Acclimate In Mexico

10:04am December 02, 2013

by Amy Isackson

An estimated 300,000 kids born in the U.S. are now living in Mexico because their parents were either deported or went south of the border when jobs in the United States dried up. Schools in border areas aren't equipped to educate these children, who may be Mexican but don't feel Mexican.

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