The Mexican government delivered to Nigeria on Tuesday an ancient bronze sculpture seized by customs agents at Mexico City airport as its buyer tried to bring it into this country. The sculpture, from the 6th century southwestern Yoruba city of Ife, shows a man wearing woven pants and a hat, sitting with his legs crossed and holding […]

Mexico’s President Andres Obrador on Wednesday said that he would like to see a conflict between the U.S. and Iran resolved peacefully via dialogue, and asked those involved to say “no to war.” Iranian forces fired missiles at military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a […]

A prison riot left 16 inmates dead and five wounded in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas on New Year’s Eve, local authorities said Wednesday. Prisoners fought each other with handguns and knives, which were seized after the fight, the state’s Public Security Ministry said. “On Tuesday afternoon a fight occurred inside the Regional Center […]

Sixteen inmates were killed and five wounded in a prison riot inside a Mexican prison Tuesday, one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system, according to news reports. The brawl broke out at about 2:30 p.m. during visiting hours at the Regional Center for Social Reintegration, a men’s prison in […]

Human remains discovered last month at a farm outside the city of Guadalajara have been confirmed as belonging to at least 50 people, authorities in Mexico’s west-central state of Jalisco reported. Jalisco state prosecutors said recovery work at the farm in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, which began Nov. 22 after the initial discovery, concluded Friday as […]