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Mexico City

Justice
Mexico’s supreme court rules in favor of Ely, a depressed elephant at a zoo
4:16
Music
Classical composer Gabriela Ortiz brings her distinctive, rhythmic Latin American style to Carnegie Hall
5:47
Lifestyle
Mexico City’s bike culture is thriving
5:21
Food
A visit to an all-fungi restaurant in Mexico City
4:16
Elections
Mexico makes history electing its 1st woman president: Claudia Sheinbaum
47:57
Elections
What a female president could mean for Mexico
6:00
Environment
Once the epicenter of hydraulic engineering, Mexico City is now running out of water
4:21
The CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City is designed for 80 people, but it's currently hosting 500, with most of them sleeping on gym mats in the shelter's basketball court.
Immigration
Shelters for migrants in Mexico City overwhelmed as US changes its asylum rules
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet.
Migration
Biden seeks allies on migration crisis at US-Mexico border
The beach at the popular tourist resort of Puerto Peñasco in the state of Sonora, Mexico, September 2018.
Energy
Mexico’s clean energy plan could run into trouble at leaders’ summit
Relatives of the 43 missing students from the rural teachers college march holding pictures of their missing loved ones during a protest in Mexico City, Dec. 26, 2015. 
Human rights
43 students from a rural Mexican college disappeared 7 years ago. This deep dive delves into what happened to them.
Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada. 
Music
Mexican crooner converts heartbreak into joy — and music
Migrants leave Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, early Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the US border.
Migration
Thousands of migrants heading north to the US-Mexico border face a ‘collapsed’ asylum system, advocates say
A pregnant person wearing a red shirt holds her belly, wearing a face mask and gloves.
Commentary
For pregnant women, getting the COVID-19 jab is a challenging choice
Two subway cars are show fallen from an elevated train track with rescue workers all around.
Top of The World
Mexico metro overpass collapses, killing 23 and injuring dozens
A nurse shows an elderly man a syringe prepared with a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, before he is inoculated at the Americas Cultural Center in Ecatepec, Mexico, April 3, 2021.
COVID-19
Thousands of medical workers left behind in Mexico’s vaccination program 
A display of a variety of guns on a table made from unauthorized parts
Violence
President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’
People wait in a long line at an oxygen distribution warehouse near downtown Mexico City.
COVID-19
Mexico’s COVID-19 wards are full. Many patients who can’t get oxygen die at home.
Several rows of outdoor seating are shown with cars in the distance and a movie project shining bright in the distance.
Arts, Culture & Media
The pop culture that got us through 2020
Dressed in protective gear to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, a medical worker massages a patient, at a military hospital set up to take care of COVID-19 patients.
COVID-19
COVID-19 takes its toll on Mexico’s health workers
COVID-19
Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so
A public service announcement encouraging face masks is flanked by marigolds and terciopelo flowers at Mercado de Jamaica.
Jobs
In Mexico, shuttered cemeteries mean financial ruin for thousands of flower farmers
With sports contests being frequently canceled due to the pandemic, many spectators have cherished the chance to watch lucha libre from their cars.
Sports
‘You get fired up’: Mexico City fans savor lucha libre wrestling at drive-in venues
Fernando Lozano, co-owner of La Abuela tortilla shop in southern Mexico City, stands inside his bakery.
Education
Mexico City tortilla shop provides free Wi-Fi for kids to access virtual school
A child looks at a TV screen in a living room with orange painted walls.
Development & Education
Pandemic learning in Mexico requires thinking outside the screen
A crowd carries two caskets.
Women & Gender
Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown
Residents listen from a bench, background, as Percibald García reads children's books aloud outside the high-rise buildings in the Tlatelolco housing complex, in Mexico City, on July 18, 2020.
COVID-19
This Mexico City architect transformed an empty public square into a storytelling stage
A woman wearing a white shirt signs a black silhouette during a demonstration for mothers of enforced disappearances
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, the unending drug war takes its toll with thousands of disappearances 
Tianna Spears says she faced racial discrimination by US border officials while working as a US diplomat posted in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Global Politics
Former US diplomat attests to racial discrimination in diplomatic corps
A woman stands by a display of fruit
Food
As the coronavirus drags on, Mexico’s food prices soar
A police officer is shown holding several protective face masks and handing one out to a woman standing adjacent.
Top of The World
Coronavirus restrictions start to loosen in Europe; Oil-producing nations agree to 10% cut in output; Trump’s coronavirus promises largely unfulfilled
Manuel Rueda,19, portrayed Jesus in a reenactment of the Catholic observation of the Stations of the Cross in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. The event usually draws thousands of worshippers and tourists but was moved behind closed doors this year.
COVID-19
Mexico City’s Passion play usually draws thousands. This year, attendance is virtual.
A waiter carries a round tray with bottles of Mexican beer at a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on June 20, 2017.
COVID-19
Some countries are banning alcohol sales in their lockdowns — leading shoppers to panic-buy
A couple kiss in the Pantitlan metro station as Mexico's government is seeking to minimize public disruption in its response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico, on March 17, 2020.
COVID-19
Experts concerned Mexico not taking enough COVID-19 precautions
A woman holds a pink cross during a protest to mark International Women's Day at Zocalo square in Mexico City, Mexico, March 8, 2020.
Women in Mexico take to the streets to protest femicide
A group of American voters gathered at a BBQ restaurant in Mexico City to watch the Democratic presidential debate broadcast from Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 25, 2020.
Elections
For overseas voters, a primary of their own
People gather in a memory of seven-year-old Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, who went missing and whose body was discovered inside a plastic bag, at an anti-femicide monument, in Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 19, 2020.
Thousands join march to fight against femicide in Mexico
People wearing face masks look for products at a supermarket, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, Feb. 19, 2020.
COVID-19
Airbnb hosts try to navigate coronavirus challenges  
Samantha Flores, a trans woman, stands at the entrance to the Vida Alegre, a day center for older LGBTQ people in Mexico City that she cofounded.
LGBTQ
This senior center is helping Mexico’s ‘invisible’ LGBTQ seniors
protest
Five years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, their case remains a grim, unsolved mystery
protest
Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know
a custom vw beetle in mexico
Culture
Goodbye, old friend: VW Beetle ceases production
Angkor Wat is shown by a pond at sunrise.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
Buildings shrouded in smog with a red orb in the sky
Environment
Environmental emergency declared in Mexico’s smog-choked capital
protestors in the front of the national palace in mexico
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, Guerrero’s displaced get a little closer to home
A sign says "Welcome to the United States" as cars line up underneath it
Immigration
Trump administration ‘seems disinclined to cooperate,’ says former US ambassador to Mexico
Yalitza Aparicio mira hacia un lado con su mano en el menton.
Yalitza Aparicio: “Siempre crecí orgullosa de quien soy.”
hundreds of people stand in line at a gas station on a sunny day
Mexicans support president’s fight against fuel theft despite long lines for gas
three men stand on podiums, two with their fists in the air
Sports
Teammates from Harvard recall protest at 1968 Mexico City Olympics
A woman, a child and man spread their arms out like airplanes on the roof of a building as they pose for a silly family photograph. Behind them are dark storm clouds.
Lifestyle
A year after quake shattered their home and lives, this family rebuilds
three people split quesadillas
Food
In Mexico City, if you want cheese in your quesadilla, you have to ask
Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his wife Beatriz Gutierrez Muller raise their clenched hands on a stage in Mexico City.
Mexico leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador vows no tolerance on corruption after historic election win
Daniel, Me Estás Matando performs on a Monday night in David Aguilar's Mexico City apartment.
Music
This apartment may be the best place to hear live music in Mexico City
Photo of a photo of family in front of wall with penguins painted on it
Immigration
The Mexican government says it will help people who are deported, but they often are left to make it on their own
"Little LA" in Mexico City
Culture
Visit a slice of Mexico City increasingly known as ‘Little LA’
You step into this container, and connect with someone through video conference, in an identical container, somewhere else in the world.
Arts
How a golden shipping container became one man’s portal to the world
A portrait of inmate Carmela Rodriguez Reyes in Mexico.
Conflict
Women filling Mexico’s prisons are the ‘lowest rungs of the drug trade’
Modeling
Arts
Meet Doña Luz Jiménez, the forgotten indigenous woman at the heart of Mexico’s cultural revolution
Migrants sleep on the ground at dawn at the Hermanos en el Camino shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca. The buildings here are too damaged by the recent earthquakes to enter.
Conflict
Mexico’s earthquakes complicate life for Central American migrants fleeing violence
Denisse
Justice
Meet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion