Naasón Joaquín García, leader of the La Luz del Mundo church, was arrested Monday and charged with 26 felony counts ranging from human trafficking and production of child pornography to rape of a minor. Garcia and a church member named Susana Medina Oaxaca, 24, were arrested Monday after landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Alondra Ocampo, 36, is another church member who was arrested... 

Hurricane Patricia, the strongest Category 5 and most dangerous storm that has ever been recorded, has made landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico, spreading panic among thousands of people along its path as it barrels across the country. “The eye of the hurricane has already made landfall in Emiliano Zapata” in Jalisco state, near the major port of Manzanillo, said Roberto Ramirez, the National... 

A joint operation between US special forces and the Mexican Federal Police has resulted in the discovery of two firearms manufacturing units in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Drug traffickers and the mafia in the state of Jalisco had succeeded in manufacturing over 100 AR-15 assault rifles using high-tech equipment and parts imported from the United States. Eighteen functioning rifles were seized... 

The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead. ­“We have activated a national animal health emergency with the goal of diagnosing, preventing, controlling and eradicating the Type A, sub-type H7N3 bird flu virus,” the country’s agriculture ministry said. The...