Latest Mexico Headlines

All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Inside the New Mexico Movie Set Where Baldwin’s Gun Fired

Oct 29 2021 // Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground of the northern New Mexico...

Repairing Mexico City’s Collapsed Metro Could Cost $40M: Grupo Carso

Oct 27 2021 // MEXICO CITY – Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso said the cost of repairing a collapsed section of a Mexico City metro rail that caused a fatal accident earlier this year could amount to some 800 million...

Man Who Fell From Sports Skybox in New Mexico, Son Get Payouts

Oct 20 2021 // A man who fell from a luxury suite at a university sports arena in Albuquerque onto concrete stairs below has been awarded $144,000 under a state-negotiated settlement, according to settlement documents obtained...

Mexican Insurtech Startup Offers Quick Claims Payments for Earthquake Damage

Sep 27 2021 // Mexican startup Super, which offers coverage for earthquake property damages, plans to expand into hurricane insurance and possibly raise a fresh funding round next year, according to chief executive officer and founder...

New Mexico Cattle Ranchers Suffer Losses from Western Drought

Sep 14 2021 // State Sen. Pat Woods saw a lot of it over this past year – cows culled from a herd and sent to the slaughterhouse because their owners couldn’t afford to feed them anymore.“It was awfully dry,” said the...

KCC Estimates Sept. 7 Mexico Earthquake Insured Losses at $200M

Sep 13 2021 // The impact from the the strong (magnitude 7.0) earthquake that occurred Sept. 7 near Acapulco City, Mexico is expected to be moderate, with insured losses of about $200 million, according to catastrophe modeling firm Karen...

New Mexico AG Takes More Steps to Intervene in Conservation of California Insurance Co.

Aug 26 2021 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has retained California legal counsel on behalf of the state and filed for leave to submit an amicus curiae brief in the conservation proceedings over California Insurance Co.CIC...

KCC Estimates Insured Loss From Hurricane Grace: $300M in Mexico, $30M in Caribbean

Aug 26 2021 // Catastrophe modeling firm the Karen Clark & Company (KCC) estimates that the insured loss to onshore properties from Hurricane Grace will be around $330 million—$300 million in Mexico and $30 million in the...

Fire on Mexico’s Pemex Offshore Oil Platform Kills at Least 5 Workers, Cuts Production

Aug 24 2021 // MEXICO CITY – Five workers were killed and six injured in Sunday’s fire on an offshore platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico operated by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) that cut about a quarter of Mexico’s oil...

Hurricane Grace Crosses Mexico, Killing at Least 8 People

Aug 23 2021 // Hurricane Grace crossed through Mexico on Saturday, leaving at least eight people dead, causing floods and power cuts to more than half a million customers, before losing force as it swept toward the country’s...

New Mexico Lawsuit Says Guards Mistook Dentures for Contraband, Beat Inmate

Aug 10 2021 // A man was brutally beaten by corrections officers and denied medical treatment at a county jail in a small New Mexico community after guards mistook dentures in the inmate’s mouth for contraband, according to a...

Mexico Seeks $10 Billion in Damages in Liability Suit Against U.S. Gun Makers

Aug 4 2021 // Mexico sued several gun makers in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supply what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading...

New Mexico Public Defender’s Office Settles Harassment Claims for $345K

Jul 30 2021 // Two lawsuits accusing an investigator in the state public defender’s office of sexual harassment have been settled.The Law Offices of the Public Defender agreed to pay $345,000 to resolve the lawsuits filed in 2019,...

Ousted New Mexico Police Chief Files Whistleblower Suit

Jul 16 2021 // Albuquerque’s former police chief is accusing top city officials of violating open record laws and a state statute meant to protect whistleblowers.Michael Geier and his former assistant, Paulette Diaz, filed a...

New Mexico City Settling Ex-Officers’ Suit over Race-Based Enforcement

Jul 6 2021 // Hobbs, N.M., will pay a $1.4 million settlement to three former police officers whose whistleblower lawsuit alleged they were subjected to racist language and directed to target minority neighborhoods.The 2017 lawsuit...

New Mexico Opening Door to New Era of Civil Rights Lawsuits

Jul 6 2021 // Efforts among a handful of states to hold police accountable for brutality and civil rights violations are expanding Thursday as New Mexico opens the door to civil rights lawsuits against government agencies in state...

City in New Mexico Suing Companies Over Lighting on Problem-Plagued Bus Route

Jul 5 2021 // New Mexico’s largest city has sued companies involved in the design and construction of a rapid transit system over light fixtures that have fallen or weren’t secured.The Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus system...

Update: Hurricane Enrique Brushes Past Mexico’s Pacific Coast

Jun 28 2021 // MEXICO CITY – The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season brushed past the coastal shoulder of southwestern Mexico Monday, keeping just off shore while sweeping the coast with heavy rains and winds that raised the...

City in New Mexico Suing Companies Over Lighting on Problem-Plagued Bus Route

Jun 22 2021 // New Mexico’s largest city has sued companies involved in the design and construction of a rapid transit system over light fixtures that have fallen or weren’t secured.The Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus system...

New Mexico Public Defender Agency Settles Gender Pay-Gap Suit

Jun 18 2021 // Several female attorneys and investigators at the state Law Offices of the Public Defender are getting raises to resolve a lawsuit that alleged unfair compensation in comparison with better-paid male colleagues.Five...