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The standoff at Gate 36: Texas sends in the troops to block migrants from seeking asylum
Immigration enforcement has long been the domain of the federal government. Texas is trying to change...
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This mega-city is running out of water. What will 22 million people do when the taps run dry?
The challenge in Mexico City, built amid lakes by the Aztecs, had long been getting rid...
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'Dehumanizing': Mexico's president lashes out over Texas immigration law
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called Texas' immigration law 'dehumanizing,' as U.S. courts weighed whether...
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L.A.'s Oaxacan community rallies after wildfire devastates a region of Mexico famed for its mezcal
A deadly wildfire that devastated rural Oaxaca has struck an emotional chord in Los Angeles, home...
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Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines
Soldiers and civilians have been killed in separate incidents in recent months involving 'narco mines' planted...
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California man first in U.S. to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gases
Michael Hart is the first person to be charged in the U.S. with smuggling potent greenhouse...
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Is the Mexican government hiding how many people have gone missing?
Critics say the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is trying to downplay how...
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The prison that helped build 'the city at the end of the world'
At the southernmost tip of Argentina's Patagonia sits 'the prison of the end of the world.'...
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Opinion: Many Americans believe migrants bring fentanyl across the border. That's wrong and dangerous
Illicit imports of the opioid drug responsible for a fatal overdose crisis largely come from Mexico....
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In the Mexican city that once perfumed the world, a push to revive vanilla
In Papantla, Mexico, once a major vanilla-producing city, the spice is still strongly tied to people's...
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The vanilla queens of Mexico
Vanilla is deeply rooted in the identity of Papantla, a city in eastern Mexico where reinas...
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Murder of presidential candidate in Tijuana 30 years ago still obsesses Mexico
The son of slain presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio asked that his killer be pardoned, but...
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Opinion: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is defying a U.S. Supreme Court order. That's frightening
The Republican governor has continued putting up razor wire and impeding federal agents at the U.S.-Mexico...
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This 'Top 100' best chef wants Guatemala to get back to its Indigenous roots
Guatemala's Debora Fadul, one of the 'Top 100' world's best chefs, is on a mission to...
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Inside the world of the ultra-wealthy Mexicans who own exotic animals
In Sinaloa, Mexico, home to one of the world's most powerful drug cartels and famed for...
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The muxe, Mexico's 'third gender,' are part of a worldwide LGBTQ+ movement
The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman....
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Opinion: Organized crime threatens Latin America's democracies and fuels migration. The U.S. can help
The release of Peru's former dictator, Alberto Fujimori, reflects emboldened criminal groups there and in countries...
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Mass shootings in Mexico become an issue in the presidential race
Many Mexicans find it difficult to square recent mass shootings with official statistics showing that homicides...
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A 100-foot drop, a death-defying ritual: Mexican children learn how to fly
Children across Mexico grow up learning the voladores ritual, where they fly around a 100-foot tree.
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Mandas, dances and rain: This year's Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe attracted millions to Mexico City
Ecclesial communities, entire families and neighborhood groups begin arriving at the Basilica in the first days...
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In Catholic Argentina, the incoming president has a rabbi -- and likes talking about it
Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei has shown public interest in Judaism, incorporating shofars at campaign rallies and...
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'Everything's like a gamble': U.S. immigration policies leave lives in limbo
Millions of immigrants — those here legally as well as unauthorized migrants — find their lives...
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Could immigrants be America's new swing voter group?
A first-of-its-kind survey of more than 3,300 immigrants nationwide confounds some of the conventional wisdom surrounding...