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In this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 photo, tourists climb the pyramid at the archeological site in Coba, Mexico. Amid a worldwide frenzy of advertisers and new-agers preparing for a Maya apocalypse, one group is approaching Dec. 21 with calm and equanimity ó the people whose ancestors supposedly made the prediction in the first place. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

New Agers journey to Mexico for Mayan 'new era'

Last updated Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 4:30pm

MERIDA, Mexico — The crystal skulls have spoken: The world is not going to end.

American seer Star Johnsen-Moser led a whooping, dancing, drum-beating ceremony Thursday in the heart of Mayan territory to consult several of the life-sized crystal skulls, which adherents claim were passed down by the ancient Maya.

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Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), gives a thumbs up as he speaks to supporters at the party's headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday July 2, 2012. Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Mexico’s former ruling party voted back to office

Katherine Corcoran, Mark Stevenson The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 2, 2012 - 9:28am

MEXICO CITY — The party that ruled Mexico with an iron grip for most of the last century has sailed back into power, promising a government that will be modern, responsible and open to criticism.

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A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder after a seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. According to the Mexican army, 15 tons of pure methamphetamine were seized at the ranch, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009. (AP Photo/Bruno González)

Mexican troops seize 15 tons of pure meth

Arturo Perez, Mark Stevenson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 12:42pm

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

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Carmen del Consuelo Saenz, fifth from right, alleged 'accountant' of the Zetas drug cartel, is presented to the media with 10 other alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Authorities in Mexico said Thursday they detained Saenz Tuesday in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz. (AP Photo/German Garcia)

Narcos, meet hackers: 2 ‘anonymous’ groups spar

Mark Stevenson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 7:26am

MEXICO CITY — One of the world’s most secretive movements is taking aim at a just as clandestine mafia, right out in the open.

Crime, Anonymous, Drug cartels, Drug Trafficking, Hackers, Mexico, Protests, International Read more Comments

Mexican ex-candidate freed by kidnappers

Mark Stevenson, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 20, 2010 - 2:54pm

MEXICO CITY - A former Mexican presidential candidate was freed Monday seven months after his kidnapping, telling reporters outside his Mexico City home that he is well and forgives his captors.

Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a top Mexican political power broker who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1994, gave no details about his abductors in what was the highest-profile and most brazen kidnapping in Mexico's recent history.

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