Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A Voice of Mexico Past, Present and Future

What will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures?

Mario Gutierrez looks to win Triple Crown for Mexican family, Canadian friends

One win away from thoroughbred history, Mario Gutierrez is riding for his family in Mexico and his friends in Vancouver.

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, dies at 83

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters, whose panoramic novels captured the complicated essence of his country's history for readers around the world, died on Tuesday in Mexico City. Fuentes received wide recognition in the United States in 1985 with his novel “The Old Gringo,” a convoluted tale of the American writer Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared during ...

Mitt Romney's family history in Mexico

Travel 200 miles south of the U.S. border in Mexico, past impoverished areas and treacherous drug cartel territory and you'll find a settlement in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua with sprawling homes and families who moved there from the U.S. over a hundred years ago. After polygamy was outlawed in 1980, they fled to Mexico where husbands could [...]

Painkillers On the Rise In New Mexico

The use of a class of prescription painkillers shot up dramatically in New Mexico during the past decade. And the 2010 sales rate of oxycodone in Lincoln and Otero counties was the fourth highest per capita of the state's 13 three-digit ZIP codes.