Mexico

Claudia Sheinbaum officially took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president and the first of Jewish heritage.

Claudia Sheinbaum has been sworn in as Mexico’s first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programs but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence.

While the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, thousands are making Mexico their final destination.

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence.

Migrants will be able to schedule appointments on the CBP One app from the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, extending the zone from northern and central Mexico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has eluded the reach of U.S. enforcement for decades as the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.

Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of incoming Hurricane Beryl.

El Tri has been stunningly eliminated in the Copa America group stage following a scoreless draw to Ecuador on Sunday.

U.S. government inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan will gradually resume, U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar announced Friday, a week after they were suspended over an assault on inspectors.

The 43-year-old was with another person in the whirlpool bath at a resort in Puerto Peñasco when both were shocked, local officials said.

Mexican authorities say they have found the remains of some of the 63 miners who were trapped 18 years ago in a coal mine in northern Mexico.

Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California.

Amid Mexico’s heat wave and drought, suffering birds are getting air-conditioning and monkeys with heatstroke are being rescued by non-governmental groups. The government is being a bit more protective of captive animals at state-run zoos, where hyenas and lions are getting ice pops made of frozen meat. It’s not the only frozen treat: One rescue group is feeding distressed birds...

Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its next President, making her the first woman to have that position.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity.

Climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum held an irreversible lead Sunday in the race that would make her Mexico’s first female president, according to an official quick count.

The scene was one of chaos and confusion as voters, many of whom had not pre-registered online, faced hurdles in their efforts to cast ballots.

Polling stations have opened in Mexico in a presidential election that will likely bring the country’s first female president.

Mexico will choose its next president on Sunday and there is every indication the country will elect its first woman leader.

A high gust of wind toppled the stage at a campaign rally Wednesday evening in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, killing at least five people, injuring 50 and trapping others, the state’s governor said.