2021-01-17 Mexican Farmers Find Large Statue of Mystery Woman
Farmers were digging among fruit trees on a farm on Mexico’s coast when they found a big surprise: a stone statue almost two meters tall. The female statue may represent…
2020-10-17 Mexico Experts Find 2,000 Ruin Sites near Maya Train Route
Experts in Mexico said Wednesday they have found more than 2,000 pre-Hispanic ruins along the proposed path of the president’s “Maya Train” project on the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists discovered the…
2020-08-24 Mexico Targets Junk Food as Obesity Takes Toll Amid Pandemic
Several Mexican states have proposed or approved bans on junk food sales to children. The country has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity as well as a high…
2020-08-02 Tools Found in Mexico Suggest Earlier Human Arrival in North America
Stone tools found in a Mexican cave suggest people were living in North America as early as 26,500 years ago, much earlier than past research has shown. Scientists recently reported…
2020-04-13 US Expels Thousands of Asylum Seekers to Mexico Over Virus Fears
The administration of United States President Donald Trump is using a public health law to limit the number of people who can seek asylum in the U.S. People seeking safety…
2020-03-08 Climate Change Hurts Mexico’s Corn Production
Around 9,000 years ago, human beings began growing corn for the first time near Tehuacan, in what is now the central Mexican state of Puebla. In the years that followed,…
2019-11-08 Killings Show Mexico’s Drug War Is Worsening
People in the Mexican town of La Mora are afraid that more violence is coming from drug traffickers who control the area. La Mora has been holding funerals for and…
2016-02-17 Pope Francis Attracts Crowds at US-Mexico Border
Pope Francis is finishing a six-day trip to Mexico by saying Mass near the Mexican-United States border. The pope will say Mass in the city of Cuidad Juarez. The city…
2014-09-06 Mixed Signals at US Border with Mexico
Since last October, tens of thousands of children have entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian. This was two times the number as the year before. Methodist…