MEXICO CITY — Friday marked arguably the most important day on a Mexican calendar that's bulging with patriotic parades, patron saint parties and local lark. But scores of mothers marched this morning through the heart of Mexico City, demanding government action to find the estimated 25,000 people who've gone missing in recent years.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Speaking Friday morning to a gathering of elite students, politicians and assorted VIPs with a message aimed at a far less privileged country overall, President Barack Obama described a hopeful Mexico that demands an end to old stereotypes.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's migrating mummies have made it home at last. After a hapless and perhaps unprofitable four-year sojourn in the United States, the desiccated corpses of 36 humans have returned to Guanajuato, the central highlands city where their hearts last beat.

MEXICO CITY — After nearly six months of smooth sailing, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's once seemingly unsinkable reform agenda has hit serious headwinds. Striking teachers in the impoverished southern state of Guerrero have launched fierce resistance to Peña's national education reforms, with protests that threaten to spread across southern Mexico at the least. Meanwhile, the opposition National Action Party, or PAN, whose dozen-year hold on Mexico's presidency ended when Peña took office Dec. 1, has suspended active participation in the “Pact for Mexico,” a multiparty alliance that's anchored the government's strategy.