Mexico

Migration
Migrants say crossing Mexico has become increasingly challenging
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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
Argelia Gil Samaniego has been practicing highline for a couple years, but the Cruz del Diablo was by far her most ambitious effort yet.
Sports
Hundreds of feet in the air, Sonoran highliners face fears and find balance
Sparse trees seen near Orizaba Peak in Mexico
Climate Change
As Mexico’s last glaciers melt, communities that depend on mountain springs scramble to find solutions
"Water is for the people" reads a sign in defense of Indigenous land and water rights at a large gathering in Ahuacatlán, Puebla state, Mexico.
Justice
Indigenous communities score victories against two mining projects in Mexico
President Joe Biden waves towards the White House balcony in Washington
Top of The World
US, Canada and Mexico to hold talks at the White House
Commuters drive amidst morning haze and toxic smog as schools and some coal-based power plants close down in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
Heavy smog shuts down schools in India’s capital
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
Students stand in a line in front of the US Supreme Court with signs that read "Home is here"
Immigration
A new generation of DACA youth depends on Biden for support
Figures of a 7-year-old migrant girl walking with a woman and unidentified man silhouetted at night
Borders
Many asylum-seekers are returned at the US-Mexico border under Title 42. Advocates call it a ‘sham.’
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’
A police officer drives a large blue and white police vehicle through town
Critical State
Federalism in violence: Part II
Sandra Martínez stands in a plant-filled patio of the Las Golondrinas Hotel.
COVID-19
Mexico’s battered tourism sector teeters fine line between economy and public health
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
Reporters Shirin Jaafari and Jorge Valencia will talk to The World's senior editor Daisy Contreras about some of the foreign policy issues at stake in the 2020 election.
2020 US presidential election
Discussion: What’s at stake in the 2020 election?
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
Oaxaca's landmark Santo Domingo church and the former convent that houses the state's largest museum have been cordoned off as part of pandemic mitigation measures.
Politics
Megaprojects and austerity measures are transforming southern Mexico
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
The logo of Lear Corporation, a Michigan-based car seat maker, near a man walking with a face mask
COVID-19
Mexico faces US pressure to reopen American factories amid coronavirus
A Mayan temple is seen on a foggy morning.
Commentary
Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland — should it?
protestors in the front of the national palace in mexico
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, Guerrero’s displaced get a little closer to home
A man and a woman fill out forms with Mexican passports in the frame
Immigration
Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico — here’s what happened
A line of people stand along a fence. Behind them, a high rise office tower reads "Wells Fargo"
Immigration
As Trump knocks Mexico on immigration, López Obrador keeps quiet
The Next Chapter for the Mexican Drug War
Full Episode
Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to a crowd
Global Politics
No honeymoon period for Mexico’s incoming president
Caravan Migrants Face Mexican Protesters on Road to U.S. Border
Full Episode
A young man waits for a ride, looks at the camera.
Tensions rise in Tijuana as migrant flows strain Mexican border shelters
Cloth banners and a yellow truck block a road.
Indigenous Mexicans spurn presidential vote with blockades, bulldozers
Young woman in plain room, dirt floor, holding birth certificate
Immigration
There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship
Ahead of North Korea Summit, President Trump Spurns U.S. Allies
Full Episode
an illustration of people behind bars
Amnesty for drug traffickers? That’s one Mexican presidential candidate’s pitch to voters.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spars with Univision reporter Jorge Ramos before his "Make America Great Again Rally" at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa, August 25, 2015.
Jorge Ramos: We can’t “be neutral” with a president like Trump
"Little LA" in Mexico City
Culture
Visit a slice of Mexico City increasingly known as ‘Little LA’
State Education Budgets Across the Country Are in Crisis. Here’s Why.
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Now Playing: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Arts, Culture & Media
Revueltas
Arts, Culture & Media
Calexico/Mexicali
Arts, Culture & Media
Gael Garcia Bernal
Arts, Culture & Media
Gael Goes Norteño
Arts, Culture & Media
A Story You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Modeling
Arts
Meet Doña Luz Jiménez, the forgotten indigenous woman at the heart of Mexico’s cultural revolution
One person inspects a piece of metal, while another person holds a cart containing a more of the same pieces of metal.
Business, Finance & Economics
New NAFTA talks aim to clear pathway to toughest issues
Woman sitting at table with two small children, holding up phone with another woman on video call
Global Politics
An American family finds their way in Mexico after deportation
Magali Torres
Education
For one immigrant in Florida, a DACA fix would mean ‘peace of mind’
Galax factory workers
Made in America: Trade policy in the Trump era
Full Episode
Solid-looking building with US flag in front, fences, and many people waiting outside
Global Politics
With papers, my brother-in-law could be worth more than a dollar a day to the world
Mexico City
Environment
When disaster hits home: The Mexico City quake one month on
A man drives an oxcart past the rubble of what was once a traditional-style home in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca.
Environment
In Oaxaca, thousands of aftershocks mean no one’s getting much sleep
Moving day, Mexico City
Environment
A nervous Mexico City struggles to recover from the earthquake, while engineers canvass the city for damage
Mesh fencing with children behind, looking onto US side
Global Politics
Can environmental protection and border security coexist? Not through an impenetrable wall, say Arizona advocates
A person sits on the roof of a little house while looking at the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Mexico City, Mexico September 20, 2017.
Environment
Desperate search for survivors after powerful earthquake in Mexico
Large photo installed on one side of metal fencing looks out over Border Patrol SUV
Arts
Mexicans and Americans bond over a giant baby and a border wall
Photograph of a black and white wedding photo, bride laughing in groom's arms
Justice
He’s been deported twice. This third time, his family is leaving the US with him.
Erick Silva Palacios
Global Politics
Young, undocumented and trying to ‘keep my sanity’
A woman takes part in a march to mark the anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos a in the state of Guerrero in Mexico City, Mexico February 26, 2017.
Justice
Mexican officials turned spyware on international investigators
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer patrols along the secondary fence between the U.S. and Mexico in San Diego, California, U.S. April 21, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump says he’s committed to the wall. But is he really?