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Mexico explains 5 easy steps to register online as a candidate for a spot on the Supreme Court
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials laid out five easy steps Monday for registering online as a candidate for one of nine spots on Mexico’s Supreme Court, or any one of hundreds of federal judgeships. There was even a short video that made the process look easy. If you're a Mexican...
More than 1,000 mariachis belt out classics like 'Cielito Lindo' in a Mexico City plaza
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 mariachis gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza Sunday, strumming guitars and singing classics like “Cielito Lindo” to end a mariachi congress celebrating the musical form. The number of musicians apparently topped the previous record of 700...
Gunmen kill a navy rear admiral in Mexico, one of the highest-ranking officers slain in a decade
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen on Friday killed a navy rear admiral in Mexico, one of the highest-ranking officers slain in the country in a decade. Mexico's navy said that a rear admiral — which is just below full admiral, the navy’s highest rank — had been shot to death in the...
A 14-year-old boy last seen in a kidnap video is among the 11 found dead in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country's south. In the video, posted...
Police find 11 bodies dumped by a highway in southern Mexico and 4 more in the resort of Acapulco
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in a southern Mexico region rife with drug cartel violence have found 11 bodies, including two minors, dumped by a highway, prosecutors in the state of Guerrero said Thursday. Also Thursday, authorities in the nearby resort of Acapulco said four bodies,...
Mexico Supreme Court rejects last-ditch effort to limit judicial overhaul
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court dismissed a proposal Tuesday to reduce the scope of a contentious judicial overhaul making all judges stand for election. The failed effort would have required only Supreme Court justices to compete in elections instead of all of the...
Mexico's National Guard kills 2 Colombians and wounds 4 on a migrant smuggling route near the US
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Guard fatally shot two Colombians and wounded four others in what the Defense Department claimed was a confrontation near the U.S. border. Colombia's foreign ministry said in a statement Sunday that all of the victims were migrants who had...
Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family's chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs with fertile mud from the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City. ...
Bam Adebayo scores 32 points to help the Heat beat the Wizards, 118-98 in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Bam Adebayo scored 20 of his 32 points in the first half and the Miami Heat beat the Washington Wizards 118-98 on Saturday night in the 14th NBA regular-season game in Mexico. Adebayo had 14 rebounds and shot 12 of 24 from the field. Jimmy Butler added 18 points,...
A leader of Mexican folk saint cult 'La Santa Muerte' is killed at an altar to the skeletal figure
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed and eight injured in the attack in the city of Leon, in Guanajuato state, the...
