Mexico

Mexico has recently proposed a tax on sugared beverages. Mayor Bloomberg has recently pledged $10 million dollars to the fight agains obesity. Here are 10 Mind Blowing Facts about soda in Mexico.

An explosion at a gas station in Puebla, Mexico has killed 5 people.

Controlling their own destiny, Oribe Peralta and El Tri laid it all on the line Tuesday night in Costa Rica. Thanks to a little help from the United States, Mexico still has a chance to advance despite a loss to Los Ticos.

Mexican refugee Carlos Gutierrez had his feet chopped off in 2011 by extortionists after failing to pay up. He fled to the US and plans to 670 miles for "Pedaling for Justice."

A small passenger plane carrying 14 people has been missing near Baja Mexico since Monday.

Find out when and where to watch Mexico's final WCQ against Costa Rica. El Tri currently sits fourth in CONCACAF.

A second video has emerged of another waiting room birth in Mexico. The director of the hospital where the second birth took place has been dismissed by Puebla state’s health department upon the orders of the governor.

Tonight Mexico and Panama fight in the CONCACAF World Cup qualifier. Find out when and where to watch this game!

Irma López Aurelio, 28, had been told by a Oaxaca clinic that the staff was too shorthanded to help her when she arrived.

Will Mexico be able to defeat Panama on October 11 and grab a spot at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil?

Republicans in the House of Representatives have slowed the passage of a US-Mexico treaty over a provision which would make oil and gas companies disclose their payments to foreign countries.

The Mexican border is an increasingly popular point of entry Cubans seeking to emigrate to the United States. In fiscal year 2013, 13,664 Cubans entered there, in contrast to 8,273 in 2012.

Police in Mexico have raided a house used by drug cartels to hold 73 kidnapping victims for ransom.

Migrants passing through Mexico on their way to the United States are often targets for organized crime. About 6 out of every 10 women are raped on their journey.

At a forum on child pornography, an investigator with Mexico’s federal police said that last year his department saw 11,000 cases, from which only 16 people ended up arrested for the crime.

Mexico has a corruption problem with their cops, but the country has a solution for that: Female cops. Government officials have stated that women are more likely to uphold their oath. The other criterion for their cops: The women have to be thin and tall.

A 10-year-old boy was killed Sunday while attending church services in Mexico. Heavy rains casued the building to collapse injuring over 20 attending the services.

Complaints against Televisa's recognized TV host Laura Bozzo have spread to city agencies that have penned a formal request to run the presenter out of Mexico.

Police in Los Reyes have discovered three human heads in a bag believed to be the work of self-defense squads.

A total of four police officers have been arrested in connection with the mass kidnapping and murder of 12 people from a Mexico bar.

Crocodiles ventured out of their usual habitats and into towns in Tamaulipas and Acapulco as heavy rains engorged lakes and rivers.

The Mexico City police officer who is implicated in the May 26 murder of 12 youths -- and another young man who helped lure them to the after-hours bar where they were kidnapped -- was alleged to be living far beyond the means afforded him as a cop in Mexico's capital.

For years, telecommunications companies told villagers in Talea de Castro, in the southern state of Oaxaca, that their town was too small to connect to the wireless grid. So villagers took matters into their own hands.

Mexico’s celebration of its independence day on Tuesday was a turbulent one, with reports that the government had bused in “supporters” paid with food and clothing to attend the president’s first Cry of Dolores, as well as an “alternative march” held by the teachers union to protest the official military march.

Tropical storm Ingrid touched down in Mexico just one day after tropical storm Manuel caused massive flooding on Mexico’s Pacific Coast.

Mexico is one of the fattest countries in the Western Hemisphere, with about a third of its citizens qualifying as obese. Its president thinks a soda tax can help bring that number down, but soda companies are pushing back.

Mexico hasn’t missed a World Cup since 1990. But after the team dropped Tuesday night’s match against the United States 2-0, the unthinkable might happen. Some say more than the country’s pride might take a hit.

Teachers in Mexico have been protesting for weeks, angered about new labor reforms approved by the President.

Eight children and five adults were killed and two people rescued alive from buried houses after landslides in the state of Veracruz.

“Credible fear” asylum claims from Indians nationwide have soared in the past four years – from 80 in fiscal year 2009 to 1,935 as of late June. An investigation by the newspaper the Arizona Republic suggests that some Indians who file for asylum at the border with Mexico by saying they face political persecution back home might simply be angling to gain entry to the United States. The report echoes conservatives’ fears that the credible fear claim is little more than a “loophole” in immigration law.