Reporting from Iguala, Mexico — You can’t sit down and talk with the mayor of Iguala these days. He’s on the lam. Implicated in the possible massacre of 43 college students, Jose Luis Abarca took a ...

Nearly two months after the disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero, southwest Mexico, the government is racing to show that justice is being done, that the bodies have been found and the killers ...

Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico — On a Saturday afternoon, Iguala’s market is not as crowded as it once was. The grills at the entrance are sizzling but empty, and for months the stalls have held the same ...

Newly reported text messages are shedding fresh light on the unsolved cartel massacre of 43 students in Mexico, revealing military and government officials were complicit in covering up the murders.

Over a decade after 43 students from a rural teaching college vanished in southern Mexico, a new arrest has stirred fresh scrutiny and reopened old wounds. On Thursday, Mexican authorities detained ...

To be sure, many Mexicans and quite a few foreign visitors have little sympathy with the country's militant schoolteachers, whose idea of protest often involves snarling traffic for hours or blocking ...

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