With an investigation barely under way, Mexican journalist protection groups are already expressing fears that authorities will not consider the brutal killing of a photojournalist as being related to his work — even though he fled the state he covered fearing for his safety.

The ‘Martian Panic’ was a myth for which mainstream media was largely responsible, writes Terry Prone

Tens of thousands of tourists have been stranded in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco by floods brought on by a tropical storm.

The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico with torrential rains yesterday, flooding towns and cities and setting off landslides in a national emergency that caused at least 34 deaths.

Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel have drenched Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains, flooding towns and cities and sparking a national emergency that authorities said had caused at least 33 deaths.

Michael Weissenstein reports from Mexico City on the arrest of drugs cartel baron Morales

Tropical storm Helene headed north along Mexico’s Gulf coast early today, posing a threat to areas where thousands of people were still recovering from flooding spawned last week by hurricane Ernesto.

Tropical Storm Ernesto has weakened to a tropical depression as it moves inland over Mexico, killing seven people and dumping rains in the mountains of Mexico’s flood-prone southern Gulf region.

Tropical Storm Ernesto has hit Mexico, killing two people as it moved inland and began drenching the flood-prone southern Gulf region.

Hurricane Ernesto has come ashore on Mexico’s Caribbean coast near the border with Belize, after hundreds of tourists left beach resorts and fishermen abandoned low-lying villages to avoid the threat.

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found dumped on a northern Mexico highway in what appeared to be the latest carnage in the escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels.

Dozens of bodies, at least some of them mutilated, were found today dumped on a motorway near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, officials said.

A few years ago, a Bantry friend nonchalantly pointed at the full moon as we hurtled towards his hometown and predicted a night of violence, destruction and half-eaten chicken suppers.

Five gunmen sprayed three passenger buses with bullets in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz, killing seven passengers before being chased down and shot dead by soldiers.

Mexican marines have captured a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, the navy announced.

Mexican authorities have fired nearly 1,000 police officers to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

SUSPECTED drug traffickers dumped 35 bodies at rush hour beneath a busy overpass in the heart of a major city as gunmen pointed weapons at drivers.

Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city and dumped the bodies of 35 murder victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.

Seven of 10 oil workers missing in the Gulf of Mexico were found alive, according to Mexico’s state oil company, three days after evacuating their disabled rig in a tropical storm and escaping in an enclosed life raft.

A magnitude-5.7 earthquake has shaken Mexico’s Gulf coast. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Hurricane Igor barrelled north-eastwards toward Canada early today, leaving behind power cuts, grounded boats and downed trees in Bermuda and kicking up dangerous surf on the US Atlantic coast.

Authorities in central Mexico were on alert today for possible mudslides and flooding as the remnants of Hurricane Karl pushed inland hours after the storm swept on to the Gulf coast and killed two people.

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.

Tropical Storm Alex is gaining strength as it swirls across the Gulf of Mexico today on a path towards Mexico’s north-eastern coast.

Mel Gibson’s new film has caused over 200 prisoners to be moved around Mexico.

Mel Gibson is making a film about Mexican prisoners.

ONE person was killed and five injured in Mexico after a Roman Catholic bishop apparently lost control of his vehicle and ran them over.

One person was killed and five injured in Mexico after a Roman Catholic bishop apparently lost control of his vehicle and ran them over.

RESIDENTS in this community of 3,000 believe their town is ground zero for the swine flu epidemic, even if health officials are not saying so.

A Mexican village close to a pig farm believes it was the source of the swine flu now threatening to throw the world into a panic.

World health officials today raced to extinguish a new flu strain that has already spread to five countries and is jumping borders.

Hurricane Dean limped across Mexico today as a weakened tropical depression, but still dumped torrential rains that flooded rivers and drenched mudslide-prone mountains.

A sprawling Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days and quickly stretched across to the Pacific Ocean, drenching the central mountains with rain that swelled rivers before weakening into a tropical storm.

Hurricane Dean raked the Mexican mainland Wednesday and battered evacuated oil platforms, forcing thousands to flee as it regained some of the force it unleashed on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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.

Thousands of tourists were confined to their hotel rooms today, sheltering from high winds and driving rain as Hurricane Dean tore into Mexico.

A bus carrying Mexican tourists plunged off a 650ft cliff today, killing at least 60 people in a crash police said could have been caused by brake failure on the steep mountainous roads.

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.

Tropical Storm Stan strengthened to a hurricane today and barrelled toward Mexico’s Gulf coast, threatening a major port and forcing the evacuation of several oil platforms.

MEXICAN state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has recovered about two-thirds of the estimated 5,000 barrels of oil that spilled last week into a river feeding the Gulf of Mexico.

The price of crude broke through the $54 barrier today, following speculation fuelled by a pipeline explosion in Mexico.

A cargo ship pulled away from the Mexican port of Veracruz after two Greenpeace activists locked themselves to an anchor chain to block the importation of genetically-modified corn from the United States.