In latest trip to Mexico, Obama hints at shift in balance of power

MEXICO CITY - For generations, Mexico has been widely seen in the United States as a Third World neighbor, a source of cheap labor, illegal immigration and drugs.

Mexico aims to get trains on track

PUEBLA, Mexico - Mexico's 19th-century leaders spent lavishly to bring the railroad to their young republic, eager to show the world they were building a modern, technologically advanced nation.

Mexico's trains will run again, president promises

PUEBLA, Mexico — Mexico’s 19th-century leaders spent lavishly to bring the railroad to their young republic, eager to show the world they were building a modern, technologically advanced nation.

Guest-worker program seen as a possible model for US

OJOCALIENTE, Mexico - When Oscar Reyes heads north for seasonal work every spring, he no longer pays a smuggler to sneak him through the desert past the U.S. Border Patrol.

A path to the middle class in Mexico

Nissan workers wait for a company-provided bus in Aguascalientes.

A path to the middle class in Mexico

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico - For 12 hours, Luis Moreno moved camshafts along the assembly line at the vast Nissan plant here, 30 seconds for each one. Now he was coming home in the dark, just as he'd left.

Middle class a surging force in Mexico

QUERETARO, Mexico - A wary but tenacious middle class is fast becoming the majority in Mexico, breaking down the rich-poor divide in a profound demographic transformation that has far-reaching implications here and in the United States.

Kidnaps spur some in Mexico to implant own tracking chips

The tracking chips are about a half-inch long and the width of a boiled spaghetti noodle, and are implanted in fatty tissue of the upper arm. Critics say the chip strategy is worthless.

Kidnaps spur some in Mexico to implant own tracking chips

QUERETARO, Mexico - Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as "Boss Diego," perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip that the kidna…

'La Barbie' brags about his Mexico drug deals

MEXICO CITY - A ritual is performed when drug lords are arrested here. They are paraded before the news cameras, often with black eyes and fresh bruises, and then stand shackled and grimacing between a pair of masked police.