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Volcano rumbles near Mexico City, coating towns with ash, disrupting flights
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Towering a couple of hours from one of the world's largest cities, the Popocatepetl volcano has been coating nearby towns with ash and disrupting flights at Mexico City's airport, the busiest in Latin America. Hundreds of explosions have spit lava from the...
Mexico prosecutors withdraw case against woman sentenced to prison for killing man raping her
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her. In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State...
Mexico seizes part of part railway line, sending in marines to take over
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government sent in marines Friday to take over part of a private railway line in southern Mexico. It was not clear whether the seizure of the rail line on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec constituted an expropriation. The government said it...
Mexico leader defiant after high court rules tourist train, other works not national security issues
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday the government cannot simply decree tourist trains or other public work projects to be issues of “national security,” but hours later President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published a similar order in defiance of the decision. ...
Some 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico, president says
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though nine were later found, Mexico's president and police said Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said National Guard troops...
Chicken loose on subway tracks halts service in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Service was temporarily halted on a line of Mexico City’s subway system after a chicken got loose on the tracks. Video distributed by the city’s Metro system Monday showed the electricity cut off at a station near the city’s center on Sunday. ...
As Mexicans observe Mother's Day, parents of disappeared demand answers
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last time Sonia Cruz saw her 14-year-old son, it was just a few days after Christmas. He walked out onto the street at 8 p.m. in their small town in northern Mexico going to meet his girlfriend, but he was dragged into a black truck that sped away. Five...
Biden: US-Mexico border will be 'chaotic for a while'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that the U.S.-Mexico border would be “chaotic for a while" when pandemic-related restrictions end, as 550 active-duty troops began arriving and migrants weighed whether or when to cross. The restrictions have been in place...
El Chapo's son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the powerful Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. The sanctions came the day...
Mexican high court overturns reforms rushed through Congress
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court voted Monday to overturn a pair of electoral law reforms favored by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador because Congress rushed them through to a vote without debate, or even time to read them. The 9-2 vote threatens López...
