Humans have eaten grains for many thousands of years. 

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the Pacific Coast has jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Central America.

I FIND myself dreaming of Mexican breakfasts weeks before I travel.

A long-simmering volcano exploded with a series of powerful eruptions outside one of Guatemala’s most famous tourist attractions, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high, spewing rivers of lava and sparking evacuation orders for more than 33,000 people.

Authorities are investigating a mass grave in southern Mexico containing 167 bodies that may have been dumped there at least 50 years ago, a Mexican official said.

Authorities say they’ve found the bodies of 167 people in a southern Mexican cave, and forensic experts believe the remains are at least 50 years old.

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck off southern Mexico today.

There is only a year left before December 21, 2012, when some believe the Mayans predicted the end of the world.

Rescue efforts resumed today for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico as a landslide in a neighbouring state killed 16 people.

Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica.

A massive wave of mud and water swept through a Mexican village, leaving up to 16 people missing and feared dead after heavy rainfalls caused a hillside to collapse into a river, officials said.

THOUSANDS of people were plucked from rooftops in southern Mexico yesterday as water receded after flooding that left 800,000 homeless in Tabasco state, authorities said.

A huge military operation swung into action on Mexico’s flooded gulf coast today trying to rescue more than 300,000 people cut off by rising waters.

A week of heavy rains unleashed massive flooding in south-eastern Mexico, killing at least one person and forcing tens of thousands to flee the rising waters for shelters in Tabasco and Chiapas states.

A strong earthquake shook parts of southern Mexico last night, sending thousands of residents fleeing from buildings into the streets.

THE five men imprisoned over the Shell gas project yesterday hit out at Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy over riot gardaí being deployed to Mayo.

Mexico celebrated the first of two Day of the Dead celebrations today with elaborate food- and flower-laden altars designed to guide the spirits of the deceased in their annual journey back to Earth.

There was a violent shudder and a roar, and then the side of a volcano gave way, burying two villages under a rush of mud and flood waters.

Rescue workers today searched for victims of a mudslide near a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists in Guatemala, as the death toll from flooding sparked by heavy rains climbed to 79 across the country and 65 in neighbouring El Salvador.

Hurricane Stan knocked down trees, ripped roofs off homes and washed out bridges in south-eastern Mexico – but the storms it helped spawn proved far more destructive, killing more than 65 people in Central America.

The Zapatista rebels embarked on a historic transformation today at a mass meeting intended to take them out of their jungle hideouts and into the cut-throat world of Mexican politics.

Five people have died after eating poisonous mushrooms in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas over the past week, doctors and hospital officials said today.

Heavy rains forced rescuers to suspend attempts to save two young brothers who have been trapped for more than four days in a deep Mexican cave.

Italy’s government insisted Tuesday it will keep its troops in Iraq despite a demand by militants holding an Italian journalist hostage that Italian forces pull out within 48 hours.

A judge in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas has released six paramilitary members convicted of taking part in the 1997 massacre of 45 rebel sympathisers, sparking fear among refugees who had fled the bloodbath.

Police in southern Mexico have found the bodies of five Guatemalan immigrants who died trapped inside an abandoned truck

More than 20 prisoners sewed their lips shut yesterday to pressure officials to release them from Cerro Hueco jail in Mexico.