FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ

A lioness is carried to a transport cage at the animal refuge Ostok Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Culiacan, Mexico, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
AP PHOTOS: Tigers, jaguars and elephants are the latest to flee Mexico’s cartel violence
CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.
 
A lion sits in a cage waiting to be transported to Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, at the Ostok Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Tigers, jaguars and elephants are the latest to flee cartel violence in Mexico’s Sinaloa
A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.
 
Jesus Cuevas, a Petgas technician, puts plastic caps into a shredding machine inside a recycling center in Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Mexican startup tackles plastic waste by converting it to fuel
A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels.
 
Workers begin the installation of a temporary shelter for possible deportees from the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Mexican border states prepare migrant shelters as Trump begins deportation campaign
Mexico was raising sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to reverse mass migration.
 
Residents walk past a house damaged by Hurricane John in Coyuca de Benitez, Guerrero state, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Along Mexico’s Pacific coast, flooding from Hurricane John left devastated towns and 17 dead
Along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, floodwaters have begun to recede, leaving behind devastated towns and 17 dead, after John struck the coast once as a hurricane and again as tropical storm Desperate residents in the town of Coyuca de Benitez, about 35 miles west of Acapulco, are organizing team
 
Pedro Murillo, a diver, jumps into the sea amid the heat in Veracruz, Mexico, Saturday, June 15, 2024. Victims in Veracruz have made up nearly a third of Mexico's heat-related deaths as temperatures have reached 100 degrees in the humid Mexican gulf state. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Heat wave claims lives of at least 125 in Mexico this year, hitting country’s most vulnerable
Mexico’s health ministry has tallied at least 125 heat-related deaths this year. More than 2,300 more have suffered heat stroke, dehydration and sunburns.
 
Yeneska Garcia, a Venezuelan migrant, cries into her hands as she eats at the Peace Oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito shelter in Villahermosa, Mexico, Friday, June 7, 2024. Since the 23-year-old fled Venezuela in January, she trekked days through the jungles of The Darien Gap, narrowly survived being kidnapped by Mexican cartels and waited months for an asylum appointment with the U.S. that never came through. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Mexico’s tactic to cut immigration to the US: wear out migrants
Mexican authorities are using a simple but harsh tactic to deal with migrants trying to get to the U.S. They’re wearing them out until they give up. Mexico is driven by mounting pressure from the U.S. to block millions of people headed north.
 
Wildfires burn parts of a cemetery in Nogales, Mexico, Monday, March 25, 2024. Emergency crews are working to contain wildfires burning across parts of the High Mountains area in Veracruz state. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Forest fires burn in nearly half of Mexico’s drought-stricken states, fueled by strong winds.
Forest fires were burning in nearly half of Mexico’s drought-stricken states fueled by strong winds.
 
Mexican town buries US teenager killed by police shotgun
Hundreds of people in a southern Mexico town have bid farewell amid tears and anger to a 16-year-old Mexican-American boy shot dead by local police.