The Argentine artist shared her time with fans and the press upon her arrival in Mexico. Cazzu will perform four shows in the ...

El Gran Museo del Mundo Maya de Mérida translates to The Great Museum of the Mayan World of Mérida. With more than 1,160 artifacts on display, the museum combines ancient textiles, religious elements, ...

The Mérida Initiative is a bilateral security cooperation agreement between Mexico and the United States The Mérida Initiative celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Yet since it began providing ...

Freda Moon has traveled Mexico from top to bottom, by car and by sailboat, and has been writing about the country for The New York Times since 2009. Even as tourism to the Yucatán Peninsula skyrockets ...

Nestled in the Andes Mountains and transected by the Chama River, Mérida is one of 23 states in Venezuela. It is home to the city and state capital, also named Mérida (officially Santiago de los ...

For a Mexican city whose reputation tends to concentrate on its gilded age of the early 20 th century, some hundred years later, Mérida is experiencing a second coming. Between new hotels, restaurants ...

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of ...

Catedral de San Ildefonso, also known as the Mérida Cathedral, is the oldest cathedral in Mexico. Completed at the end of the 16th century, the structure stands tall on the site of an ancient Maya ...

Mérida is the Yucatán Peninsula’s cultural epicenter, a genteel mix of provincial and cosmopolitan with a friendly small-town feel, despite its 777,000 residents. As a woman traveling alone, I hadn’t ...

Here’s why critics want to reassess U.S. security assistance to fight drug-related violence Mexican lawmakers just voted to legalize recreational marijuana, a move that raises new questions about U.S.