Born, raised and living in Tepito, the toughest slum in Mexico City, Alfonso Hernandez for decades has been the official chronicler of one of the most stigmatized of all Mexican neighborhoods.

Slums such as Barrio Azul represent fertile ground for recruiting cartel foot soldiers. The neighborhood is a microcosm of the city's social ills, with poverty and rampant crime.

VALLE DE CHALCO, Mexico — The rush of rainwater and sewage came in the dead of night, quickly filling the two-room home Josefa Martinez shares with an invalid grandson on the tattered fringe of ...

Superbarrio emerged from the rubble of the 1985 earthquake that devastated Mexico City — especially ravaged were the city’s “barrios,” as the slum neighborhoods of the city are known.

Mexico City is the largest and most populous city in North America. That's right - more people live there than in New York or Los Angeles or Chicago. It is simply a ginormous city. A city home to ...

"It was a pure wasteland," she said. Residents banded together to demand services in the 1970s, and a government programme to formalise ownership provided land titles, experts say. Neza's reputation ...

Mexico promised affordable housing for all. Instead it created many rapidly decaying slums Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times By Richard Marosi UPDATED: November 26, 2017 at 5:41 PM PST ...

The water dribbling from the tap is not enough for Miriam Guerrero to clean her fingernails, let alone wash down her hair salon in a Mexico City slum as the country fights a deadly flu virus.

Surrounded by tight security, Rudy Giuliani swept through Mexico City's toughest slums yesterday on a made-for-TV mission to replicate his crimefighting success south of the border. The ex-mayor ...

The Polanco District of Mexico City is very high-end and beautiful. It is worth visiting this picturesque neighborhood to get a sense of how Mexican celebrities, politicians and businessmen live.

In Mexico state, which surrounds Mexico City, developers have completed only 36 of the 235 developments started between 2005 and 2012, leaving 200,000 to 500,000 people in limbo, according to ...