Mexican authorities set up emergency shelters and cruise ships shifted course as Hurricane Rina strengthened off the Caribbean coast today, following a projected track through Cancun and the resort-filled Mayan Riviera, Mexico’s most popular tourist destination.

A woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit.

A top-level investigation was under way today after a huge gas blast devastated a resort hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, killing seven people, including five Canadian tourists.

Tropical Storm Karl dumped heavy rains on the Yucatan Peninsula today as it moved toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it is expected to pick up steam and become a hurricane threatening Mexico’s central coast by the weekend.

MEXICAN police discovered six dead bodies in a cavern near the tourist resort of Cancun, three of them cut open with their hearts removed.

The mayor of top Mexican tourist resort Cancun was charged with drug trafficking links today.

WOMEN’S rights activists called on tourists to boycott the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, saying authorities there failed to protect the rights of an 11-year-old rape victim who is carrying the baby to term.

Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico’s oil industry.

Hurricane Dean strengthened into a 160mph Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage today, as its first rain and winds began hitting the coasts of Mexico and Belize.

Hurricane Wilma inched toward Florida today as winds and rain continued to whip Mexico's devastated Caribbean coast.

Mexico’s popular Cancun resort area has taken a battering from Hurricane Wilma as tourists huddled in hotels and shelters amid howling winds and shattering glass.

Hurricane Wilma weakened slightly as it roared toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and southern Florida today, leaving at least 12 people dead in its wake and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands in coastal areas from Honduras to the Florida Keys.

Hurricane Emily stranded thousands of tourists along Mexico’s luxurious Mayan Riviera and left hundreds of local residents homeless yesterday, forcing many to remain in crowded, leaky shelters.

Tropical Storm Michelle reached hurricane strength today as it churned through the Caribbean after drenching Honduras, Nicaragua and Jamaica with four days of rains that killed six people, left 26 missing and forced more than 115,000 to flee their homes.

Federal prosecutors in Mexico and the United States have captured of a former police officer who became one of Mexico’s top drug lords.