Mexican

Carmen Aristegui, a leading journalist in Mexico, fights government corruption and the rise of fake news with astonishing resilience and courage. Shot over the course of four years, Juliana Fanjul’s intimate documentary portrait captures first-hand the dangers faced by those who dared to speak truth to power under the controversial presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto.After her report on Peña Nieto’s swanky mansion, which had been paid for by a firm that was awarded the country’s first high-speed rail contract, Aristegui was…

"Skin tone is uniquely related to how Mexican immigrants are understanding their interactions with and treatment by U.S.-born whites," says Helen B. Marrow. Credit: Shutterstock While racism is often a focus of concern in the U.S., skin tone—separate but related to race—plays a lesser known but important role in discrimination, according to new research. …

| Tai Manzano's debut YA graphic novel, Sing With Me is described as a "queer rom-com set in Mexico, sparks fly when a pair of siblings meet their matches: two fierce players training for the upcoming charrería nationals." It has been pitched as "Check, Please! meets Yuri on Ice". Elizabeth Lazowski at Chronicle has acquired world rights to Sing With Me and publication is scheduled for 2025. Tai Manzano's agent Tamara Kawar negotiated the deal while at ICM Partners. Sing With Me, a 2025 Queer Mexican Romcom Graphic Novel…

As a Mexican American, I love being from two worlds. I feel lucky to have been born in Florida, growing up in a beachside city in all the state’s humid glory. I feel proud knowing how to make tamales and enchiladas and rooting for two soccer teams during the World Cup.But recently, I’ve been wondering whether there’s more to who I am. My mother was born in Ñuu Snuviko, also known as San Juan Mixtepec, a small pueblo in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. It translates to the “place where the clouds descend” in Mixteco, my…

Michael Moreno, a reputed member of the Mexican Mafia, has been jailed for more than nine years on a charge that he helped orchestrate a novel but ultimately thwarted alliance with a Mexican drug cartel that wanted to trade money and drugs for protection in prison and muscle on the streets.After pleading guilty this year, Moreno, 65, stood before U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder on Wednesday dressed in a white jumpsuit, hands shackled to the waist, his salt and pepper hair cropped short. The judge asked if he…

Hatzín is an adolescent kid from Mexico City, first met arriving in northern Mexico near the US border. Played by Hatzín Navarrete – at the time of casting a non-professional actor – he’s there to collect the remains of his father, a man he barely knew, who was seemingly killed in an industrial accident. Offered a box and an identification card with a barely discernible photo of the dead man, Hatzín sets off on the long journey back, but changes his mind and jumps off the bus when he sees a man who looks like the picture…

A shake-up of Mexican trade officials has clouded prospects for a quick resolution of a dispute with the U.S. and Canada over what are seen as Mexico’s nationalist energy policies.The changes at the Economy Ministry are part of an effort by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to put people who support his stance in charge of negotiations, according to people familiar with the situation.…

In under an hour, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, and Mercedes AMG Petronas’ George Russel and Lewis Hamilton will take their positions at the front of the grid at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, in time for the start of the Mexican Grand Prix at 1 PM PT. The race is being broadcast through ESPN. There are some other options available though for people traveling abroad and tuning in from other countries, including a free United States GP live stream. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning in to…

The authorities were listening when Ramon Amaya called his wife from the Pomona city jail. Amaya, a gang member nicknamed Happy, said on a recorded line that he hoped a judge wouldn’t release him before he was sent to the county’s main lockup in downtown Los Angeles. “I’m gonna tell the judge, ‘F— you, keep me,’ ” Amaya said, adding that he’d “spit in his face” to make sure he was kept in custody. And he complained about the “nasty” macaroni he’d been fed in jail. “I should stop eating,” he told his wife, “because I’m…

Sheriff’s deputies led Luis Garcia from his cell to the visiting room at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. The man waiting on the other side of the glass partition introduced himself as Gabriel. “I’m here for...,” the man said, then raised his palm to the glass. To Garcia, a gang member who has admitted to selling drugs and running extortion rackets behind bars, the gesture was unmistakable: The man had come on behalf of the Mexican Mafia, the prison-based crime syndicate whose symbol is a black hand.…