MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA

Medical staff walk through an outdoor passageway at the Hospital de Jesus, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. It's the oldest continuously operating hospital in the Americas that was founded by Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Hospital founded by Spanish conqueror persists 500 years later in Mexico’s capital
The Hospital de Jesus in Mexico City’s bustling historic center covers most of a city block. Its faded unassuming yellow facade, characteristic of the middle of the last century, obscures a medical center founded 500 years ago by Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés.
 
Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened
Mexico City’s chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization.
 
People attend a stargazing and comet-watching gathering at Joya-La Barreta ecological park as comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS flies overhead in Queretaro, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
The dark sky over an urban park in central Mexico attracts stargazers who worry it might not last
As night descended in an ecological park in central Mexico, tiny stars appeared in the sky one by one, aligning into constellations. Juan Carlos Hernández adjusted a telescope looking for the soon-to-be-visible Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet.
 
Victoria Sámano, center, Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, right, and Yamileth Adriano — all trans women — serve meals at Casa Lleca, the LGBTQ+ shelter they operate in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Samano founded the shelter in 2020 in an effort to help LGBTQ+ people and sex workers who were unhoused or at risk of losing their homes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A kitchen staffed by trans women is a refuge for Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community
At Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in Mexico City, a community kitchen has emerged to provide employment opportunities to trans women and serve surrounding residents in the area.
 
President Claudia Sheinbaum waves to supporters in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, during a rally on her inauguration day, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as 1st female president of Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum has been sworn in as Mexico’s first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programs but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence.
 
FILE- This photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
US Treasury sanctions a chain of ice cream shops and a pharmacy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as investments by drug traffickers.
 
Juana Salazar Segundo walks through sewage-infused floodwaters in Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Residents of Mexico City suburb are anxious after living over a month in black sewage water
Sewage-infused floodwaters have invaded streets, homes and businesses in Chalco, a low-income suburb southeast of Mexico City, for over a month.
 
Hotels stand along the shore before the arrival of Tropical Storm Ileana in San Jose de los Cabos, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Figaredo)
Tropical Storm Ileana heads toward Los Cabos resorts bringing heavy rains
Authorities in Mexico’s Los Cabos area have been warning people to stay inside. Tropical Storm Ileana began pounding the Baja California peninsula with rain on Friday. Ileana formed Thursday off the Pacific coast and was moving north.
 
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.
 
Music fans wait for Mexican singer Danna Paola's performance during the HERA HSBC music festival in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)
At Mexico’s Hera music festival, women were both at the forefront and behind the scenes
Mexico City’s Hera HSBC music festival brought together an all-female lineup of both Latina and international talent including Kesha, Demi Lovato and Camila Cabello.
 
Mexican-Triqui artist Carlos CGH, wearing a black and red “gabán,” a garment native to the Triqui people in western Oaxaca, performs during a celebration of Indigenous peoples at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariana Martínez Barba)
In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap
Carlos CGH is an Indigenous artist in Mexico who aims to conserve his native Triqui language through rap. The Triqui people are native to the western part of Oaxaca.
 
This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 4:40 p.m EDT and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Ernesto in the Atlantic Ocean south-southwest of Bermuda, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (NOAA via AP)
Hurricane Ernesto weakens into tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters
Hurricane Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds.
 
Miztli Valencia, 15, attends the annual “Mis XV” or “My Fifteenth” birthday celebration for patients who are currently in treatment for a serious disease or have overcome cancer, at the Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)
How a Mexico City hospital transforms into a coming-of-age celebration for its patients
At a local children’s hospital in Mexico City, volunteers clad in white and blue nurse uniforms scurry to attend to birthday girls and boys. They curl hair, do makeup, and adjust bow ties.
 
Wisin the “puppy luchador,” is embraced by a child as he greets fans at a lucha libre event at the Institute of Youth, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Wisin was originally created by the institute to motivate children to exercise but his character evolved into a viral meme across Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Meet Wisin — Mexico’s latest viral meme and the ‘puppy luchador’
With floppy ears and a tail on his costume coming unstitched after all the wrestling, Wisin the “puppy luchador” has captured the imagination of fans across Mexico.
 
Sonia Estefania Palacios Diaz, left, and Lizbeth E. Pineda Castro, right, clean the roof of a house used to collect rainwater in the Iztapalpa neighborhood in Mexico City, Sunday, July 21, 2024. (AP Photo/ Marco Ugarte)
In Mexico City, women water harvesters help make up for drought and dicey public water system
Driven by prolonged drought and inconsistent public water delivery, some Mexico City residents are changing the way they get water.
 
Venezuelan migrant Cristo Perez, 33, sits in the sun at a migrant camp outside the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Venezuelan migrants in Mexico worry for their loved ones as political unrest roils their homeland
Living in makeshift camps in the heart of Mexico City, many Venezuelan migrants grow increasingly anxious for their friends and family back home.
 
FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addresses the European Jewish Association's conference in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris to impersonate her is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead just three months away from November's elections. The video gained attention after Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday, July 26, without noting it was originally released as parody. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Elon Musk calls Maduro a ‘dictator’ in tech billionaire’s latest blow-up against foreign leader
 
Dr. Sarahí Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian Bellantta Lubin, at the Bassuary medical clinic in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, east of Mexico City, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Hernández Pacheco has turned her family-run clinic into a safe haven for Haitian migrants whether they are planning to stay in Mexico or continue the journey north toward the U.S. (AP Photo/Mariana Martínez Barba)
With Haitian migration growing, a Mexico City family of doctors is helping out
At a clinic in the working class neighborhood, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City, Doctor Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian migrants.
 
Elexus Reddout and her father, Jeremy, enjoy the waves between Murdoch's and Pleasure Pier Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in Galveston, Texas. Tropical Storm Alberto has formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the first named storm of what is forecast to be a busy hurricane season. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Alberto, season’s first named tropical storm, dumps rain on Texas and Mexico, which reports 3 deaths
Tropical Storm Alberto has formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the first named storm of what is forecast to be a busy hurricane season. Authorities in Mexico reported three deaths from its rains.
 
Mexico's future President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Mexico’s incoming president says surveys show support for controversial judicial reforms
In a move reminiscent of her political mentor, incoming Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has displayed a series of surveys commissioned by her political party that she says show a wide majority approve of controversial judicial changes.
 
FILE - U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar arrives to give a press conference at his residence in Mexico City, Oct. 17, 2022. Salazar warned Thursday, June 13, 2024, that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the U.S. will face “great consequences.” (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
US diplomat warns of great consequences for migrants at border who don’t choose legal pathways
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the United States will face consequences.