Mexico City Metro Train Derails, Killing At Least 23, Injuring Dozens The subway train derailment occurred on Line 12 at Olivos Station in Mexico City. Photos from the scene show two train cars dangling precariously from the elevated track. Scott Neuman
U.S.-Mexico Efforts Targeting Drug Cartels Have Unraveled, Top DEA Official Tells NPR A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths. Brian Mann
This Bar Missed Its Patrons. Its Idea To Reach Them Touched Others Around The World One bar in Mexico decided to start a website recreating some of those sounds at your favorite bar for those confined at home. It was an idea that took off around the world. Kat Lonsdorf
Some Mexicans Travel To U.S. For COVID Vaccines As Their Country's Rollout Stumbles Some Mexicans with family ties or dual citizenship in the U.S., or who can afford the airfare, head north of the border to get vaccinated faster than the months of waiting for one back home. Carrie Kahn
Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors. Tamara Keith
What Happened To The Butterflies? Climate, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Migration The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new report. Jaclyn Diaz
Biden Team Unveils New Asylum System To Replace Trump's 'Remain In Mexico' President Biden called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out. Alana Wise
Mexico Will Not Charge Former Defense Chief With Drug Trafficking Retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested in October at Los Angeles International Airport by U.S. law enforcement, outraging Mexican officials who demanded and obtained his extradition. Mark Katkov
Mexico Surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths The milestone comes just two days after the country reported one million confirmed coronavirus infections. Mexico is only the fourth country to surpass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. Scott Neuman
Russia And China Among Countries Holding Off On Congratulating Biden Leaders in the Kremlin and Beijing, as well as in Mexico and Brazil, have conspicuously not congratulated the president-elect, instead waiting for legal challenges to be resolved. Scott Neuman
