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.

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...

In Chimalhuacán, a mud-choked slum 12 miles past the eastern edge of Mexico City, it is difficult to note any resemblance to the colorful favelas that dot the rolling hills of Rio de Janeiro and ...

Many people still wore face masks and Mexico City restaurants sanitized diners' hands as they arrived. Home to around 1 million people, Neza is infamous for being next to a huge open-pit garbage dump.

Jose Castillo, an urban planner and architect in Mexico City, says that Ciudad Neza, home to 1.2 million people, should serve as a model for other blighted urban areas and slums.

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 ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...