Mexico

Here’s a guide on how to make an altar to the dead and how to pay tribute to your ancestors for the six-day celebration.

Mexico welcomed its first woman president as Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated into office. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.

Los Angeles County is home to the largest Mexican population in the United States. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC News at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. 

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.

On September 15th, the City of Los Angeles will mark the beginning of Latino Heritage Month with the annual celebration of El Grito de Dolores – a celebration of Mexican Independence. This highly anticipated and exciting event will be hosted by this year’s Padrino, Council District 13 Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez.  The free public event will be held on the historic…

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.

After two high-scoring rounds in the Paris Olympics, Mexico’s Alan Jorge Cleland Quiñonez is out after losing round three on Monday.

A Los Angeles man is ecstatically cheering on his son, Alan George Cleland Quiñonez, as he represents Team Mexico in the Olympics’ surfing competition. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday, July 29, 2024.

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.

A U.S. government spokesperson says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has paused inspections in Michoacan until the security conditions are resolved.

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...