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Mexican bullfighter Diego Silveti touches an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the bullring chapel before a bullfight in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
AP PHOTOS: Those devoted to bullfighting in Mexico feel recent bans harm a sacred tradition
For Diego Silveti, a fourth-generation matador, bullfighting is a vocation, a path that he embraces despite knowing it might kill him. “I am willing to lose my life if necessary,” Silveti said. “For my legacy, for my significance, for what God has commanded me to do.”
 
Parishioners carry a religious float with a statue of St. Mark during a month-long event honoring the saint, outside St. Mark's church in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Thousands flock to central Mexico to celebrate Saint Mark’s Day
Thousands have flocked to the city of Aguascalientes in central Mexico, where a monthlong fair named after Saint Mark starts every year in mid-April.
 
The dead body of man, his arm marked with a tattoo of the Virgin of Guadalupe, lies covered on a street in La Costerita neighborhood of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Mexican president blames the US for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States in part for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week.
 
Purepechas Indigenous people carry a flame through the mountains, from Erongaricuaro where residents kept the flame alive for one year, to the residents of Ocumicho in Michoacan state, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. To mark the new year, based on an ancient lunar calendar, a new flame will be lit during a “New Fire” ceremony on Feb. 2. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group welcomes the New Year with ancient ‘New Fire’ ceremony
Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve. It was a little different than the West’s traditional New Year.
 
Mexican Army soldiers walk around the burnt-out remains of several trucks that were torched during a protest against a raid targeting illegal logging and sawmills in the pine forests outside of Huitzilac, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. Morelos state prosecutors said the raid involved at least 300 officers of the state police, the National Guard and the army. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Hundreds of police, soldiers raid illegal logging camps on southern edge of Mexico City
Hundreds of police and soldiers have raided illegal logging camps on the southern edge of Mexico City and seized four illegal sawmills.
 
Olivia Mora cries over the casket of her brother Hipolito Mora during his wake at his home in La Ruana, Mexico, Friday, June 30, 2023. Hipolito Mora, the leader of an armed civilian movement that once drove a drug cartel out of the western state of Michoacan, was killed Thursday on a street in his hometown. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
As Mexican town mourns slain anti-gang leader, brother warns community would take up arms again
The younger brother of the slain leader of an armed civilian defense movement in Mexico is warning that he and others who fought with Hipólito Mora will take up arms again if the government does not provide swift justice.
 
Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack
The killing of 26 people in an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico is the deadliest such attack in a decade and has led to calls for change in a prosperous state that has become a cartel battleground.