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- Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is driven away on a motorbike at the end of a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
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Opposition leader joins rally calling for Venezuela presidential election results to be overturned
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press
Sat,08/03/24-1:08PM , 274 Reads
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela's capital Saturday, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.
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- Mourners attended the wake of mayoral candidate Armando Perez in Maravatio, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Perez, a member of the opposition National Action Party, and another mayoral hopeful for Maravito were both fatally shot the previous day within hours of each other (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Organized crime attacks on local candidates raise fears Mexico may face its bloodiest elections ever
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press
Sat,03/02/24-11:10PM , 153 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ever.
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- A bullfighter performs at the Plaza Mexico, in Mexico City, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Bullfighting returned to Mexico City after the Supreme Court of Justice overturned a 2022 ban that prevented these events from taking place in the capital. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Bullfighting resumes in Mexico City before a full crowd while activists protest outside
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press
Sun,01/28/24-12:30PM , 582 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — With protesters outside a full arena, bullfights resumed in Mexico City on Sunday after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and suspended the events
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- A worker hangs the most traditional style of "piñata," a sphere with seven spiky cones, that will be filled with fruit and candy at a family-run piñata-making business in Acolman, just north of Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. This style of piñata has a religious origin, with each cone representing one of the seven deadly sins, and hitting the globe with a stick is a symbolic blow against sin. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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In Mexico, piñatas are not just child's play. They're a 400-year-old tradition
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press
Fri,12/22/23-11:04PM , 495 Reads
ACOLMAN, Mexico (AP) — María de Lourdes Ortiz Zacarías swiftly cuts hundreds of strips of newsprint and colored crepe paper needed to make a piñata, soothed by Norteño music on the radio while measuring pieces by feel.

“The measurement is already in my fingers,” Ortiz Zacarías says with a laugh.
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