Just a week after he topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people, Carlos Slim faces a sweeping new set of regulations in the telecommunications market which he controls almost exclusively.
Mexico's Supreme Court narrowed that country's allowable speech yesterday, determining in a 3-2 vote that two Spanish-language insults used to disparage homosexuals were not protected under freedom of expression laws.
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Fourteen people are dead, up to 100 injured and another 30 remain trapped beneath the rubble, after an explosion tore through the Mexico City headquarters of the state-owned Pemex oil company.
A U.S. Marine imprisoned in Mexico for bringing a banned shotgun into the country will be released from custody today, reports Fox News, which championed his cause back home.
Kimberley Strassel on corporate America's role in the fiscal cliff, Allen Frances on the cost of the DSM-5, Tim Padgett on Mexico after the end of the world, Terry Glavin on Richard Engel, and Paul Bogard on the danger of the night shift.
As if Walmart wasn't already having a rough day in the media, The New York Times just published a devastating piece on the company's habit of paying off Mexican officials to get what it wants.
Just when you thought drug running couldn't get more extreme, U.S. border patrol officers find 33 cans of marijuana in the desert near the border that they believe were fired from a cannon in Mexico.
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Joe Nocera on Obama's new cabinet, Jonah Goldberg on Mohamed Morsi, Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum, Peter Hakim on Mexico, and Sarah Ditum on gender-neutral toys.
Discovered: How to bring a sail boat up to 70 mph; mole-like creature lived 45 million years longer than thought; missing Mexican silver found in old European currency; species languish on shelves for years before being "discovered."
There wasn't any planning or any undercover sting operations when the Mexican Navy took out Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the Zetas, the country's most fearsome drug cartel, on Monday night. They say it was all a matter of chance.
Just hours after the Mexican Navy said they killed Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the infamous Zetas Cartel, a state prosecutor has now said that Lazcano's dead body has been stolen.
On Monday, the Mexican navy announced the capture of a suspected Zetas cartel leader who has his fingerprints on everything from jail breaks to the murder of American jet-skier David Hartley in 2010.
The death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in New Mexico earlier this week appears to be the result of a tragic accident.
Activist Jose Antonio Vargas hit a brick wall this morning, as New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan endorsed the newspaper's policy of using the term "illegal immigrant": "It is clear and accurate; it gets its job done in two words that are easily understood," she wrote.
Mexican police announced they've arrested one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the nation, the second major bust of a cartel leader this month.
It turns out 22-foot long, 10-foot deep tunnel that 131 Mexican prisoners supposedly used to break out of jail on Monday was all a sham ... perpetrated by the prison guards who let them walk out through the front door.
Like a scene out of a Tim Robbins movie, 132 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison after digging a tunnel ten feet deep through the floor of an old carpentry workshop and cutting the fence to open the path to freedom.
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of another cartel leader on Tuesday evening, but we're just hoping they actually have the right guy this time.
Confusion still reigns over Friday's shooting of a U.S. embassy vehicle in Mexico, and while authorities figure out what happened, they're keeping the 12 Mexican federal police officers involved in custody.
Author Judith Freeman wants $25,000 from Mitt Romney since, as she wrote in The Los Angeles Review of Books,in the 1880s her great grandfather, William Flake paid for Miles Romney's bail when they were both locked up for polygamy.
An attack on a U.S. embassy vehicle that reportedly wounded two Americans now appears to be a mix-up by Mexican police who were pursuing kidnappers, and that the car was either targeted by mistake or caught in the crossfire between police and suspects.
In the last month, reports of underground drug tunnels from Mexico to the U.S. have enraptured the press.
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Sunday's arson attack on a Mexican newspaper office was the third this month, which is terrifying, but the fact that it targeted a weekly society publication makes it a mysterious follow-up to two attacks very clearly meant to discourage coverage of organized crime.
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The Mexican cartels' tunnels under the U.S. border keep getting better and better—at least for the cartels.
Well this is terrifying: Apparently two Mexican new agencies were peppered with gunfire and grenades this week--the thanks they get for reporting on an organized crime ring.
Ventilation, electric lights, and wagons so your arms don't get tired from carrying all those drugs—those wonderful upgrades were found in a drug-smuggling tunnel from Sonora, Mexico to Arizona by the Mexican army this week.
In one of the more sad and disturbing things you'll hear from Mexico today, an Associated Press intern named Armando Montano, 22, was found dead in an elevator shaft in Mexico City over the weekend.
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This is slightly embarrassing. Mexican authorities celebrated the arrest of a man they claimed to be the son a powerful drug cartel leader on Thursday, but then admitted they were wrong and had actually arrested a car salesman.
It's been a big week for reporting on Mexican drug cartels in The New York Times, where reporters on two stories kept themselves safe by replacing direct danger with lots of hard work.
It's amazing that Mexico's Zetas drug cartel managed to launder money through as huge a U.S. horse-racing operation as it allegedly did for as long as it allegedly did, seeing as how one of its horses was named Number One Cartel.
Like any city, El Paso, Texas, makes goofy, oversimplified tourist maps for visitors, but in 2010 it oversimplified the map so much that it deleted its violence-plagued neighbor to the south, Ciudad Juarez.
Marco Avila, a reporter in Sonora, Mexico was buried over the weekend after being found in a black garbage bag. He's the sixth current or former journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month.
How exactly do you cope with the very real (but unreal) fact that 49 decapitated bodies were found on the side of a road or that your country has a murder training camp? Shrug it off, apparently, as some Mexicans have according to The New York Times.
A new study says that for the first time since the Great Depression, there may be fewer Mexican immigrants coming into the United States than there are moving from the United States back to Mexico.
The New York Times released a mammoth investigation that accuses Wal-Mart de Mexico of using millions to bribe Mexican officials, and then spending years covering their tracks.
The Nation on the health toll of the oil spill, USA Today on the EPA's failure with smelting, Mother Jones on seabirds, and The New York Times on greening Europe and reading Thoreau
The New York Times on pollution in Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times on green big-rigs, Scientific American on renewable energy in Hawaii, Bloomberg Views on food safely, and Capital New York on bioluminescence
The Pope makes his first journey to Latin America with a three-day trip to Mexico. Next stop: Cuba.
Pope Benedict XVI had some fighting words for Mexican drug cartels ahead of his visit to the country today
Details are sketchy so far, but the United States Geological Survey reports a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the region of southwestern Mexico, about 100 miles east of Acapulco, at midday on Tuesday.
Onetime baseball star Jose Canseco is having such a good day he wants to hug a stranger -- in fact, he's feeling so touchy-feely he's begging his Twitter followers to hug him and looking for feel-good signs from Mother Nature.
That deadly Mexican prison riot on Sunday was no random act of violence but rather a calculated escape plan carried out with the help of guards, authorities said, taking a lot of the power out of one of the country's main tools to fight drug violence.
At least 44 inmates at a prison just outside Monterrey, Mexico, are dead after a riot broke out in the early morning hours.
Mexican troops seized 15 tons of methamphetamine in a western state of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which if sold in the U.S. would be worth $4 billion.
What would make President Obama return some $200,000 in campaign donations? Oh, its connection to a drug smuggler and "casino czar" who fled to Mexico will about do it.
A Cessna pilot in Mexico appeared so calm while landing a plane without its propeller that we watched the whole video of his miraculous save and could only identify the disaster point by the change in engine sound.
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