FERNANDA PESCE

Video journalist

Pesce covers Mexico and Central America for The Associated Press.

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Wife of Mexican sailor who disappeared in Hurricane Otis shares harrowing story

Mexican workshop is keeping artisan traditions alive, making Day of the Dead paper decorations

Residents of Mexico City neighborhood keep iconic Volkswagen Beetle cars up and running

In Mexico City, Star Wars fans prepare to duel like Jedi knights

Mexico’s spring equinox celebrated at ancient pyramids

El Salvador gets ready to vote, but the winner is clear

AP Explainer: Why the strongman of El Salvador is set to win re-election

In Mexico, the sea swallows a community

Progressive outsider wins presidency in Guatemala

Trump victory spurs worry among migrants abroad, but it’s not expected to halt migration

First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Olympic gold in Paris

Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi says she is competing in the name of women in Afghanistan who have gradually been stripped of their rights over the past three years.

Nothing could go wrong: The story behind the Paris Olympics cauldron balloon

The night the Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath. The balloon lit by the Olympic torch and set off into the sky was a risk.

Star Wars fans hone their lightsaber dueling skills at a Mexico City Jedi academy

A park on the south side of Mexico’s capital lights up with a multicolored glow of lightsabers as a man slashing a white saber through the air shouts: “Check the defense!”

Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession

A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco has brutally beat a woman to death because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s Holy Week procession.

A family run workshop keeps the legacy of the Mexican fireworks alive despite the danger

Hundreds of giant papier-mâché bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec every year in the first week of March.

Meet the newscaster in drag making LGBTQ+ history in Mexican television

From its inception, the newscast La Verdrag was meant to radically transform the way LGBTQ+ community are viewed in Mexican society.

Thousands gather to honor Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe on anniversary of 1531 apparition

Thousands of people sang the traditional Mexican birthday song “Las mañanitas” at Mexico City’s Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe to honor the virgin on the 492nd anniversary of her apparition in 1531.

The Day of the Dead in Mexico is a celebration for the 5 senses

Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down from pre-Hispanic cultures that is also a celebration for all the senses. The festivity smells of cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. It has a sweet taste.

Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt

A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process.

A mausoleum for transgender women is inaugurated in Mexico’s capital as killings continue

Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City. “You don’t have to pay rent anymore.

This red dye was so valuable it built cities. One family in Mexico is still making it the old way

One family in central Mexico is struggling to preserve the production of cochineal. It’s an intense, natural red dye so prized that after gold and silver, it was probably the most valuable thing the Spaniards found in Mexico.

Mexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises

Mexico’s Navy says it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal hooks to snag gill nets that trap vaquita marina porpoises.

She killed a man while he was raping her, and a court in Mexico sentenced her to 6 years in prison

Historic Mexico City rock and counterculture hub closes

After 27 years, the Multiforo Cultural Alicia in Mexico City has closed its doors _ marking the end of an era. It had become an iconic music venue and counterculture hub in the Mexican capital.