MEXICO

The leader of a conservative Latino organization said Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s stance on undocumented immigrants needs a little work.

Described as the fastest-growing religious movement in the Americas, the cult of Santa Muerte is about seeking safe passage to the afterlife.

A U.S. official says Mexico must show results on its human rights abuse cases, such as last year's disappearance of 43 students.

While Day of the Dead festivities have been embedded in the culture of Mexican-Americans for decades, an expanding number of general audience events celebrating the holiday have popped up in recent years.

The German lender, which reported a $6.5 billion third-quarter loss Thursday, also approved sweeping austerity measures, including slashing 35,000 jobs.

The deal could turn into the largest investment China has made in the country with Latin America's second-largest economy.

“Policies like yours compel Texas to take action to protect Texans’ safety,” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a letter Monday.

Storm rains dumped nine inches of water in parts of Texas over the weekend before moving east to Louisiana.

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Hurricane Patricia dissipated over Mexico, but the storm's remnants wreaked havoc across Texas and much of the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Patricia was downgraded to a tropical storm, but the deluge from torrential rain derailed a Union Pacific train in Southeast Texas.

The strongest hurricane in history, Patricia made landfall as a Category 5 storm late Friday. It became a Category 1 storm early Saturday.

As the record-breaking storm made landfall Friday along Mexico's Pacific coast, photos circulating online captured its ferocious intensity.

The storm, which made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast Friday, is said to be the strongest in recorded history -- and could affect up to 400,000 people.

As Hurricane Patricia approached, hotels and resorts along Mexico's Pacific coast were evacuated, boarded up or turned into makeshift shelters.

The mammoth storm will likely dump plenty of rain on Texas and Louisiana, but it may be too far south to hit California, forecasters say.

Neither Cabo nor Cancun is expecting devastating impacts from the storm, but other destinations in Mexico could face serious flooding.

The Category 5 storm, which is bearing down on Mexico's West Coast, had sustained winds up to 200 mph Friday.

Officials have declared a state of emergency as the "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm nears the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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Canada has for years grown its mining empire in Latin America, largely ignoring complaints of violence, kidnapping, extortion and environmental damage.