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- Adriana Veliz searches for the queen bee from the most recent group of bees rescued by the SOS Abeja Negra organization, in Xochimilco, Mexico, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. “We do these rescues because it’s a species that’s in danger of extinction,” said Velíz. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Let it bee: The women on a mission to save Mexico City's bees
By MEGAN JANETSKY - Associated Press
Wed,06/14/23-11:03PM , 652 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — "Knife,” Adriana Velíz says with the concentration of a brain surgeon.

Shrouded in a white bee suit, she lies stretched out on the ground in one of Mexico City’s most buzzing districts. Taking the knife, she pries open the side of a light post and flashes a glowing red lantern on a humming bee hive.
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- Roxana Ruiz shouts slogans during a march in memory of Diana Velazquez, who was making a call outside her home in 2017 when she was disappeared, raped and killed, in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico, July 2, 2022. Ruiz, who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday, May 16, 2023.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Mexico prosecutors withdraw case against woman sentenced to prison for killing man raping her
By MEGAN JANETSKY - Associated Press
Sat,05/20/23-10:44PM , 679 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.
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- A Venezuelan migrant uses an emergency blanket as cover from the rain, near the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Saturday, May 13, 2023. As the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions, migrants are adapting to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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End of Title 42 hasn't stopped migrants' push north to US from across the Americas
By MEGAN JANETSKY - Associated Press
Sat,05/13/23-11:23AM , 505 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For weeks, Solangel Contreras raced.

The Venezuelan migrant and her family of 22 trudged through the dense jungles of the Darien Gap and hopped borders across Central America.
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- Mothers with disappeared children march to demand government help in the search for their missing loved ones on Mother's Day in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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As Mexicans observe Mother's Day, parents of disappeared demand answers
By MEGAN JANETSKY - Associated Press
Wed,05/10/23-5:53PM , 338 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last time Sonia Cruz saw her 14-year-old son, it was just a few days after Christmas. He walked out onto the street at 8 p.m. in their small town in northern Mexico going to meet his girlfriend, but he was dragged into a black truck that sped away.
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