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The mayor of a Mexican border city says she will live at an army base for safety

12:32am June 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

The Tijuana city government said threats to Mayor Montserrat Caballero and bodies discovered in a truck were tied to her administration's results in weapons seizures and arrests of violent suspects.

A general view showing buildings shrouded by polluted air in Seoul on April 12, 2023.

Here's how NPR reporters around the world are dealing with air pollution

9:43am June 09, 2023

As Canada and parts of the U.S. confront declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, NPR reporters in Asia, Latin America and Africa share their experiences.

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UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, provides meals and legal orientation at the CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City. The shelter capacity of 100 people has been stretched above 500 in recent weeks with a growing number of migrants stuck in limbo in Mexico.

New U.S. immigration rules send asylum requests soaring in Mexico

9:28am June 06, 2023

by James Fredrick

One of the new U.S. rules says you can't request asylum unless you've already been denied in another country. Mexico is getting more applications than ever, and crowded shelters have turn people away.

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Popocatépetl volcano spews incandescent material on Tuesday. The second highest volcano in the Mexico increased its activity, and authorities raised the alert to the second-highest level.

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Popocatépetl volcano spews smoke and ash, putting millions of Mexicans on alert

3:17pm May 24, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Mexico has deployed some 7,000 soldiers to the area of the volcano, which is near Mexico City, in case an evacuation becomes necessary. More than 25 million people live within 60 miles of the peak.

A commercial for the Temu app run by production services company The Lift in Mexico City. This ad aired during the 2023 Super Bowl.

The next show you watch could be filmed in Mexico City

7:55am May 21, 2023

by James Fredrick

American and European companies are increasingly having their commercials, shows and films shot in Mexico, taking advantage of lower costs and experienced Mexican crews.

The Mexican Navy searched for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico's northern Pacific coast. Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien and William Gross were aboard the boat and have not been heard from since April 4, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A massive search for 3 missing American sailors off Mexico coast has been called off

3:08pm April 20, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

After scouring roughly 200,000 square miles with no sign of the three and their sailboat, the Mexican navy and U.S. Coast Guard have suspended the search. They've been missing for more than two weeks.

The three American sailors were expected to stop in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico's Baja California before returning to the United States.

U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican navy are searching for 3 missing American sailors

1:13pm April 15, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The U.S. Coast Guard said three sailors identified as Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien and William Gross were last heard from on April 4. They were aboard a 44-foot boat due to stop in Cabo San Lucas.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the Justice Department charged several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world.

U.S. charges El Chapo's sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking

3:17pm April 14, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

Members of the Mexican cartel are facing several charges involving fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering in New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

There will be no federal charges in Shanquella Robinson's death, the DOJ says

10:12am April 13, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Shanquella Robinson, 25, of Charlotte, N.C., was killed last October while vacationing in Mexico with friends.

Foreign Ministry officers hold portraits beside the coffins of Guatemalan migrants whose remains arrived at the La Aurora Air Force Base in Guatemala City on Tuesday. The Mexican Air Force transported the bodies of 17 migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Mexico immigration agency chief will be charged in migrant center fire that killed 40

2:13pm April 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Mexican federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster in Ciudad Juárez last month despite earlier indications of problems at his agency's detention centers.