The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has targeted 18 individuals linked to drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, who is currently serving a 40-year prison term for the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena in 1985. 

Zapopan’s revered Virgin of Zapopan statue has visited the Windy City for the first time. 

A Guadalajara businessman who plead guilty to money laundering in San Antonio, Texas, invested some of his ill-gotten gains in the film “The Passion of Christ.”

The 11 million undocumented workers residing in the United States – nearly 60 percent of whom are Mexican – could gain citizenship within 13 years under reforms to immigration law being prepared by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators.

Jorge Bergoglio, who became the first Latin American Pope on Wednesday, has long faced accusations of collaborating with the military junta that ruled Argentina with an iron fist from 1976 to 1983.

Six out of ten Mexicans would prefer to have a pope from Latin America, according to a survey conducted by GCE.  As well as a younger pontiff, many would like him to be charismatic, humble, intelligent and liberal-minded.