Oct 23 Watch 4:05 How the ingredients for a catastrophic storm came together for Hurricane Patricia By PBS News Hour Hurricane Patricia may be one of the most dangerous storms to ever hit the Western Hemisphere, with winds of 190 miles an hour. William Brangham learns more about the forecast from Bob Henson of Weather Underground. Continue watching
Oct 23 Watch 5:46 Hurricane Patricia makes slow-motion assault on Mexico coast By PBS News Hour Police and fire units combed the Mexican resort community of Puerto Vallarta Friday morning, urging people to flee Hurricane Patricia, which has been called the strongest storm ever seen on the continent. David Alire Garcia of Reuters talks to Judy… Continue watching
Oct 22 Watch 7:48 Mexican priest offers shelter for Central American migrants on a perilous path By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 U.S. deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to government figures obtained by The Associated Press. Continue reading
Sep 25 The time I found death, innocence and a sense of fierceness in Mexico City By Adriana Zehbrauskas I spent two years photographing a Mexico City neighborhood called Tepito, also know as El Barrio Bravo "The Fierce Neighborhood."… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch 4:54 Accidental killing of tourists highlights Egypt-U.S. tension over military aid By PBS News Hour On Sunday, 12 tourists were accidentally killed by Egyptian government forces, who mistook the group for Islamist militants and fired on them with an Apache helicopter. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch 1:48 How to protect the vulnerable eggs of Mexico’s sea turtles? Drones. By PBS News Hour More commonly, aerial drones can be used by governments for spying on enemies. And now in Mexico, they're being used to keep an eye out for and protect unhatched sea turtles. Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
Sep 05 The dy(e)ing art of Mexico’s Mixtecs By Carey Reed For centuries, the indigenous Mixtec people of Mexico's Oaxaca region have used the purple dye that comes from milking a sea snail to make their brightly colored clothing, but the snail – and their way of life – is in… Continue reading
Aug 21 Police: Man who beat homeless Mexican said ‘Trump was right’ By Associated Press BOSTON -- The Mexican government condemned an attack on a sleeping homeless man that police said was committed by two brothers, one of whom said that Donald Trump was right about deporting "all these illegals."… Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch 5:32 How the ‘quietest’ drug epidemic has ravaged the U.S. By PBS News Hour Former Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones examines the dramatic surge of heroin use in the U.S. in his new book, "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic." Quinones paints a graphic portrait of the national problem in a… Continue watching