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People dance at the Chapultepec Scenic Garden during a cost-free, harassment-free, judgment-free event by the New Network of Dancers collective or NRB, in Mexico City, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
No booze, no cover, no judging: Inside Mexico City’s free dance parties
A new network of dancers in Mexico City is offering cost-free, harassment-free, judgment-free spaces for gathering. Known as Nueva Red de Bailadores (New Network of Dancers), the collective has a bold message: Dance as you feel freer.
 
A man waits for his drug's lab results at the Check Your Substance booth that offers free drug testing, where people can confirm their drug does not contain adulterants or fentanyl, at a three-day electronic music festival in Mexico City, late Friday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)
Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico’s pioneering drug harm reduction programs
Since the mid-1980s, a number of organizations, primarily in northern Mexico, have launched informational campaigns and community-oriented interventions aimed at addressing drug use from a public health and social justice perspective, rather than a security one.
 
People play poleana, a board game invented in prison, before a tournament in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
A board game born in Mexican prisons is bringing together people from all walks of life
A board game with ancient roots that established a foothold nearly a century ago in Mexican prisons is spreading in popularity outside the walls and trying to shed the stigma of being merely a pastime for prisoners.
 
Owner Duan Fan poses in his Chinese restaurant “Nueve y media,” in the Roma Sur neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Chinese migrants flock to Mexico in search of jobs, a future and, for some, a taste of freedom
While the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, thousands are making Mexico their final destination.
 
FILE - An aerial view of a migrant tent encampment set up on the plaza of the Santa Cruz y La Soledad Catholic parish church, in La Merced neighborhood of Mexico City, Dec. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
US border policy spurred migrant camps hundreds of miles away in Mexico’s capital
U.S. immigration policy has shifted the migrant landscape in Mexico City, far from the shared border. The teeming capital that was merely a transit point for some migrants has now become a temporary destination.
 
FILE - A police officer searches and checks the documents of a man living in the Kiwanis Community, during a preventive patrol in search of gang members in Soyapango, El Salvador, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. A May 2023 report by the human rights organization Cristosal, tallied 153 incarceration deaths during the first year of the state of emergency in El Salvador. No victim had been convicted of the alleged crime that put them behind bars. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
Detainees in El Salvador’s gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail
Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador’s gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention.