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Mexico frees 6 water rights activists after years in prison

Associated Press

In this Oct. 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks following a ceremony signing the &quot;America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018&quot; into law in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump’s 10 ‘Terrorists’: The evolution of a statistic

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

A man sits atop the U.S. border wall as he prepares to help other migrants climb over to San Ysidro, Calif., in order to surrender to the U.S. Border Patrol, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants who traveled with recent caravans want to seek asylum in the U.S. but face a decision between crossing illegally or waiting months, because the U.S. government only processes a limited number of those cases a day at the San Ysidro border crossing. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Build a wall — on Mexico’s southern border

By Ethan Epstein - The Washington Times

Mexico ‘evaluating’ US offer to pay for deporting migrants

Associated Press

Shadows of rescue workers and volunteers are cast on the wall of an apartment building covered with the spray painted words in Spanish: &quot;Evacuation route&quot; in the southern neighborhood of Tlalpan in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The 7.1 magnitude quake on Sept. 19 left the complex's 500 residents, mostly government employees, without a home after one of the 11 buildings collapsed and the others were damaged. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mexicans displaced by quake: ‘This is like a horror story’

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and NATACHA PISARENKO - Associated Press

The working press is under assault as Mexico faces a rising tide of violence generally, fueled in large part by clashes between large and powerful drug cartels. (Associated Press/File)

Mexican journalists in danger with little government protection

By Nicole Ault - The Washington Times

Angela Buitrago of the international experts group, left, hugs a relative of the 43 missing students, in Mexico City, Sunday, April 24, 2016. In a report released Sunday, the group said there is evidence that Mexican police tortured some of the key suspects arrested in the disappearance of the students. The 43 students have not been heard from since they were taken by local police in September 2014 in the city of Iguala, Guerrero state. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Report: Mexican police tortured suspects in students’ case

By MARK STEVENSON and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at a house party in Bedford, N.H., June 30, 2015, file photo, (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) ** FILE **

Trump criticizes border policy as well as trade agenda

By BOB CHRISTIE and KIM PIERCEALL - Associated Press

Central American migrants caravanning through Mexico seek greater protection for transiting migrants as tens of thousands have disappeared while making their journey through Mexico, where they are vulnerable to extortion and abuse by police and gangs. (associated press)

Migrants traveling in Mexico attacked by armed gangs

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Flowers adorn the fresh grave of slain 18-year-old Antonio Sanchez Valencia as mourners bury another victim from the same shooting in Apatzingan, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ** FILE **

Mexico official: Top capo nabbed in western Michoacan state

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press

Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for a special audience with members of the dioceses of Cassano allo Jonio, southern Italy, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis laments ‘Mexicanization’ of Argentina; Mexico decries drug comment

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama hosts a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The president is looking to his southern neighbor for help implementing the changing policies on immigration and Cuba. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Enrique Peña Nieto offers Obama help with amnesty documents

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto gives his second state-of-the-nation address inside the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico opens bidding for outsider oil exploration

By E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press

This May 3, 2014, photo shows Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi left, who is being held at Tijuana's La Mesa Penitentiary. The 25-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran is being held on weapons charges for mistakenly crossing the border with a shotgun, handgun and rifle in his vehicle. If Tahmooressi is convicted, he faces six to 21 years in a Mexican prison, his lawyers said, adding that alternatively the case could be dropped if the Mexican Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City requests dismissal. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Alejandro Tamayo)

Veterans: Boycott Mexico over Marine arrest

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

US looking into Mexican exports, price of sugar

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Vigilantes say Mexico government persecuting them

Associated Press

Mexico makes clear it will hold on to ‘El Chapo’

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 photo, Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City, Mexico. Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was captured overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico makes clear it will hold on to ‘El Chapo’

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, armed men belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), stand guard at a checkpoint at the entrance of Antunez, Mexico. The government announced that it had reached a deal with vigilante leaders to incorporate the armed civilian groups into old and largely forgotten quasi-military units called the Rural Defense Corps. Vigilante leaders met Tuesday Jan. 28, with government officials to hash out details of the agreement. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file)

Mexican vigilante legalization plan carries risks

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press