Mexico

Authorities in Mexico City declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday after pollution reached potentially hazardous levels.

Two women wear face masks on May 16th, 2019, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Research has found that migrants and refugees don't spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions.

The story of Mexico's latest crackdown on U.S.-bound Central American migrants began long before Trump's presidency.

Three reasons why the president might have decided to withdraw his acting director's name from the senate nomination process.

If President Donald Trump were to close the border, these people's daily lives (and in many cases, their livelihoods), would be deeply affected.

Operating out of Mexico City, Nan de Migel is one of the few artists producing contemporary R&B south of the U.S. border

The Spanish government rejected the Mexican president's demand, suggesting Spain's invasion of the Americas shouldn't be judged through our modern lens.

One of Mexico's biggest indie-pop artists discusses her new album and the state of the music industry for Latinx artists.

After an incorrect report spread on WhatsApp, a mob lynched two men in Acatlán de Osorio, Mexico. Fact-checkers came in and tried to uncover the truth of what happened.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 11 asylum seekers who have been returned to Mexico, alleges Border Patrol agents did not assess whether the migrants had reason to "fear for their lives."

The president has proposed cutting the salaries of public officials, including his own, slashing federal budgets, and laying off 70 percent of non-unionized federal workers.

The powerful painkiller has led to a considerable spike in overdoses in some border cities, but users are finding little support in trying to combat the scourge.

Members of a caravan of Central American migrants walk along a highway on their way toward the United States on January 20th, 2019, in Huixtla, Mexico.

A group of 150 migrants had approached the border barrier in an attempt to cross, and, after the tear gas was fired, the clash escalated.

Patrick Ball has advised nine truth commissions, four U.N. missions, and dozens of advocacy groups in more than 30 countries. And his non-profit, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, "represents, without a doubt, the world's top people doing statistical work on human rights violations."

A defunct nightclub in the south of the city now hosts the thousands of migrants who arrived in the two caravans from Central America.

Migrants planning to cross, both legally and illegally, say they fear Customs and Border Patrol detention. But because asylum-seekers entering legally are also detained, many still decide to cross the border illegally.

Though the government has opened a large indoor shelter in Tijuana for members of the caravan, around 350 migrants remain in a tent village against the border.

A pilgrim arrives on his knees at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City during the annual celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint, on December 12th, 2018.

Ajo, Arizona: Heavy-duty, non-biodegradable canteens—occasionally insulated with clothing or blankets to prevent chafing—scatter the desert in the Tucson sector of the United States border with Mexico.

Juan Carlos Lopez is braving local violence so that indigenous workers can get a share of the profits.

A lengthy transition period has given Mexicans a preview of how the fiery leftist leader will run his six-year term.

The State of Mexico is a nexus for a dispute between the government and the women-led activists of one of the country's largest indigenous groups.