CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he can understand why U.S. voters in an economic crisis turned to the opposition party, but he hopes the Republicans will eventually accept the need to protect the planet’s climate for...

JUST one day without massacres, beheadings or shootouts. On its 200th birthday on Wednesday, Mexico wanted its citizens - and the world - to forget its vicious drug war and remember the country’s epic history, music, whimsical folk art and...

A leftist guerrilla movement responsible for many kidnappings and attacks inside Mexico is secretly receiving funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, U.S. and Mexican intelligence officials told The Washington Examiner. The group, called the...

Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky’s actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it’s 2010, Mexico’s bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating...

The navy scored the biggest victory yet of Calderon’s three-year struggle to stem drug violence when its special forces killed a top drug lord this week, showing how it is breaking out of its traditional role and moving inland. Naval troops shot...

Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center. Twenty-three suspects were arrested in Thursday’s raid, said Miguel Angel...

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said. Investigators have not determined a motive for the shootings late Monday in...

On this, the day when hope springs eternal, President Zelaya is back in Honduras, more specifically at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. How he got there, no one is telling. His supporters are in the streets. The current leader, installed by...

A Sony Music office in Mexico has been raided after the label refused to hand over the recordings of one of Latin America’s biggest artists, Alejandro Fernández. Police took over 6,000 CDs that Sony refused to return, even though Fernández’...

Brazil and neighbors finally issued this past Friday, a statement warning “foreign military forces” against threatening the sovereignty and integrity of any South American country and “in consequence regional peace and...