Seven inmates died amid unrest at a prison in the eastern Mexico state of Veracruz, authorities said Sunday, with 11 other prisoners suffering injuries. The fighting first broke out Saturday afternoon ...

Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez, a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s ruling Morena party, was gunned down Sunday in Texistepec, Veracruz. She was leading a caravan of supporters. According to the Associated ...

TEXISTEPEC, Mexico — Gunmen killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her, the second such local candidate killing in ...

Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek pulled off the kind of surprise that even paparazzi didn't see coming. The two Oscar-winning actresses were spotted traveling low-key, on a commercial flight, at Mexico ...

Ranchers from Mexico’s eastern state of Veracruz know a way to buy cheap cattle: Drive to a remote part of the Chiapas-Guatemala border and purchase cows being brought illegally across. But behind the ...

When Hernan Cortes first landed in Mexico in 1519, he brought with him an African slave he’d bought in Cuba. Thousands more would follow in the coming centuries, forever changing the face, the rhythms ...

Drug traffickers and a repressive state government make Veracruz one of the deadliest places for journalists in Mexico. Most now shun hard-hitting reporting, but still risk abduction and murder.

Like the Tucson and Santa Fe before it, Hyundai's third crossover SUV—and easily its largest—is named after a sunny tourist destination. In this case, the Mexican state of Veracruz on the Gulf of ...

XALAPA, Mexico — Regina Martínez’s death was brutal. Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from moving from her modest ...

XALAPA, Mexico — My whole life, the smoky, vinegar-laced scent of pickled jalapeños — and their little-known origin story — has been lingering under my nose. I grew up with immigrant parents in ...

"Los Jaraneros" basically means "the jarana players." This song is all about the celebration of music and dance — when people go to a fandango, a party where people get together to dance, to play and ...