Relics found in 23 lead boxes in Mexico City cathedral
Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City’s Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral said Friday they found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics like small paintings and wood or palm crosses. The niches were covered with clay panels and were hidden under plaster. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said they may have been placed there to provide divine protection for the cathedral or the city.
news.yahoo.comSearch for missing activists intensifies in western Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Concern grew in Mexico Thursday over the fate of two environmental and community activists who disappeared last week in a dangerous corner of western Mexico. Farmers blocked roads on the border between the western Mexico states of Michoacan and Colima to protest the disappearance of lawyer Ricardo Lagunes and schoolteacher Antonio Díaz.
mlive.comMexican president says he'll consider 'El Chapo' request
Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence. Guzman, 64, was sentenced to life behind bars in the United States for a drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades. Guzman has lived in poor conditions in prison since his 2019 conviction, said José Refugio Rodríguez, a Mexican lawyer who claims to represent him.
news.yahoo.comMexico tourist train to require 6,500 military guards
The environmental and financial costs of Mexico’s Maya Train tourism project are already massive, but authorities revealed another, unexpected cost of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet project on Tuesday. The Defense Department said the project will require over 6,500 soldiers and National Guard officers to permanently guard its tracks and stations, out of the country's total 166,000-member combined force. In comparison, that is more than double the number of officers assigned to drug eradication nationwide, and more officers than are assigned to all but three of Mexico's 32 states.
news.yahoo.comBiden says he's ‘surprised’ classified documents were found in former office
Speaking at a press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday, President Biden said he was “surprised” to learn that any government records were in a private office he used after his term as vice president. Biden said he doesn’t know what’s in the documents and his lawyers “have not suggested” the president ask about the materials.
news.yahoo.comLeaders of US, Canada, Mexico show unity despite friction
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North American Leaders Summit.
Correction: Biden-Classified Documents story
In a story published January 10, 2023, about the Justice Department's review of potentially classified documents in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number boxes seized by the FBI during its August search of Mar-a-Lago.
Biden has summit with Mexican President López Obrador days after 'El Chapo' son's fentanyl trafficking arrest
Migration is a big talking point for President Biden's summit Monday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held days after the arrest of the son of "El Chapo" in Sinaloa.
foxnews.comBiden makes first visit to U.S.-Mexico border since becoming president
Ahead of a North American leaders summit in Mexico City, President Biden made his first visit as president to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. There, he met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who handed Mr. Biden a letter asking him to more strictly enforce immigration laws. Weijia Jiang reports from Mexico City.
news.yahoo.comViolence paralyzes Mexican stronghold of Sinaloa drug cartel
Organized crime paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel, as alleged cartel members carjacked residents and set vehicles ablaze on Thursday in apparent response to the arrest of a cartel leader. The operation comes just days before López Obrador will host U.S. President Joe Biden for bilateral talks followed by a North American Leaders' Summit with Biden and Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau.
news.yahoo.comHandicraft vendors block roads to Mexico's Chichen Izta ruin
Hundreds of handicraft vendors in southern Mexico blocked access roads to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza for the third day Wednesday. “They prohibit the vendors there from speaking Maya,” said Arturo Ciau Puc, an activist with a local farm group known as CIOAC. The ruin site is operated by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, and its boundaries are somewhat vague, with local communities claiming some of the land.
news.yahoo.comVillage in Mexico angry after spring water well catches fire
People in a village just north of Mexico City complained of a persistent odor of gasoline for weeks, but even they were surprised when the community’s spring-water well burst into flames and began belching dense black smoke
washingtonpost.comGang leader freed in Mexico prison attack that killed 17
Mexican authorities on Monday raised the death toll from an attack on a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas to 17, a brazen operation that appeared designed to free the leader of a local gang. Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said 10 of the dead were prison guards who were attacked by gunmen who arrived early Sunday in armored vehicles and fired on the entrance and inside dormitories. Rodríguez identified the inmates who escaped as being with the Mexicles gang, which she associated with the Caborca Cartel.
news.yahoo.comMassive turnout in defense of Mexico's electoral authority
Tens of thousands of people have packed the capital’s main boulevard to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority in the largest demonstration against one of the president’s efforts during his nearly four years in office.