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Monterrey

People gather at a playground amid water shortages in Monterrey, Mexico.

In the north of Mexico, water cuts to cope with shortages hit poor communities hardest 

Environment

Extreme heat and drought have left water in short supply in Monterrey, Mexico, but not everyone is feeling the pinch. Some poor neighborhoods seem to be facing far more restrictions on water usage than wealthier ones.

The Nature Conservancy hopes to plant perhaps 100,000 native agave and pine trees in the forests around Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest metro area.

Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water

Business
A Mexican demonstrator holds a corn cob on "Día Nacional del Maíz" (National Corn Day). Mexicans have an expression: "sin maíz, no hay país” (without corn, there is no country). Mexico has been increasingly reliant on US imports since NAFTA took effect.

Trump’s gamble: Mexico could actually gain more from a NAFTA redo

Economics
A worker walks past the Carrier plant in Santa Catarina, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. One of Trump's campaign promises was to prevent further Indiana-based Carrier jobs from moving to Mexico.

Mexican officials aren’t so worried about Trump’s vows to bring jobs back to the US

Economics
Three sisters form the band The Warning

These Mexican sisters give Metallica a run for their money

Music
Pamela Brown and Mariano Nuñez at a Hague conference on private international law. They've been working on cross-border child abduction cases together for 15 years.

How a Texas legal aid lawyer is bringing kidnapped children home from Mexico

Justice

Lawyers on both sides of the US-Mexico border are using the Hague Convention on children to reunite families.

Lolita Bosch is behind the website Nuestra Aparente Rendición (NAR), which puts a face to the victims of cartel-related violence in Mexico. Bosch, from Spain, has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years.

Volunteers put a human face on Mexico’s drug violence

Conflict & Justice

Author Lolita Bosch created a website, Nuestra Aparente Rendición, or “It seems we have surrendered,” to track the people killed in Mexico’s drug war. She wanted their memories to be more than a passing reference, and she wanted to get people talking about the violence and its aftermath.

Lolita Bosch is behind the website Nuestra Aparente Rendición (NAR), which puts a face to the victims of cartel-related violence in Mexico. Bosch, from Spain, has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years.

Volunteers put a human face on Mexico’s drug violence

Conflict & Justice

Author Lolita Bosch created a website, Nuestra Aparente Rendición, or “It seems we have surrendered,” to track the people killed in Mexico’s drug war. She wanted their memories to be more than a passing reference, and she wanted to get people talking about the violence and its aftermath.

Children practice tae kwon do at an after school program in Cuidad Juárez, funded by the Merida Initiative.

How do you fight organized crime in Mexico? With small business loans and after-school programs

Business, Economics and Jobs

For the last six years, a little-known infusion of American tax dollars has played a part in the fight against organized crime in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Part of the money for the Merida Initiative is used to keep young people out of drug cartels and help boost the economy.

Rigo Tovar: an Appreciation of a Mexican Pop Star

Arts, Culture & Media

Reporter Betto Arcos looks back at Rigo Tovar, a big pop music figure in Mexico in the 1970s and 80s. Betto used to listen to his music and was invited to write a personal essay for a newly published book on Rigo Tovar called “Rigo es Amor.”