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Damaged buildings stand after hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico.

Hurricane Otis turns popular Acapulco into a scene of chaos

Photographs and videos showed ravaged hotel rooms, doors ripped from hinges and furniture scattered throughout city streets.

  • Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Elda Cantú

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A soldier stands on a poppy field during eradication supervised by the Mexican Army on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico.

Mexican president studies legalisation of opium poppy farming

Farmers had lost income because traffickers are switching to buying fentanyl from Asia, rather than paying people to grow poppies needed for heroin.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is grappling with record violence in Mexico.

Two arrested in murder of Mexican federal judge

The assassination of the judge and a separate attempt on the Mexico City police chief have both been attributed to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, at the launch of the Mayan train project.

Mexican President goes full-steam ahead with Mayan train

Indigenous residents were originally receptive to the idea of the "Mayan train" through the region's jungles. Then they learnt the whole story.

Girls sit next to a cross to remember murdered women in Mexico City, during the national "A day without women" strike on Monday.

President says no new steps needed to prevent murder of women

Obrador says his women's rights policies are enough and alleges his opponents are cynically taking advantage of them to try to hurt his government.

  • Peter Orsi