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![Mexico: Nappies and margaritas](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico: Nappies and margaritas
The Hard Rock Hotel has added a soft touch, embracing littlies as well as adults at its Cancun resort, finds Leena Tailor.
![El Chapo's escape 'cost $74.6m'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
El Chapo's escape 'cost $74.6m'
The elaborate prison escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman may have cost US$50 million ($74.6 million) including huge bribes to prison officials.
![Drug lord escape tunnel ‘high-tech’](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Drug lord escape tunnel ‘high-tech’
The kind of tunnel that led Mexico’s most powerful drug lord to freedom would have been more than a year in planning.
![Drug lords' escape plots](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Drug lords' escape plots
The dramatic escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sounds almost too elaborate to be true.
![Rescued kiwi sailors' celebratory return](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Rescued kiwi sailors' celebratory return
"It was just a miracle. I counted we had about five ways to die. It was pretty close," said sailor Murray Vereker-Bindon.
![Mexico: A hallucinogenic fishing tale](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico: A hallucinogenic fishing tale
Tim Stewart experiences exotic flavours on his chef's pilgrimage through Mexico.
![Kiwi in Mexican Happy Meals](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Kiwi in Mexican Happy Meals
Every Happy Meal sold at a McDonald's in Mexico from this weekend will include a New Zealand kiwifruit.
![Football: Self-belief bonds young NZ team](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Football: Self-belief bonds young NZ team
Three workers are missing after the huge blaze on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed four workers and burned for hours.
![Babies DNA tested after gas blast in Mexico](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Babies DNA tested after gas blast in Mexico
Nine babies who were discovered alive after a gas blast at a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City are being DNA tested by authorities in an attempt to reunite them with parents.
![Have tequila, be friends](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Have tequila, be friends
Ana Cecilia Mijangos moved to New Zealand from Mexico with her partner Luis Cabrera in 2009 with little English and no clue about what she was going to do here.
![Mexico: Where to drink in Acapulco](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico: Where to drink in Acapulco
Kevin Pilley cradles Tequila Sunrises while watching cliff divers in Acapulco.
![Kiwi adding some spice to Mexican rugby](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Kiwi adding some spice to Mexican rugby
Kiwis can be found nearly everywhere there's a rugby ball, even in Mexico.
![José Antonio Meade Kuribreña: Scope for better NZ-Mexico friendship](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña: Scope for better NZ-Mexico friendship
Affinities, rather than the geographical proximity between two countries, are often the true basis for a close relationship, writes Wynne Gray.
![Golf: Ko handy after 68 in Mexico](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Golf: Ko handy after 68 in Mexico
Lydia Ko has made a strong start at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational tournament in Mexico City. The world number three and LPGA rookie of the year fired a four-under 68 to sit in third place.
![Mexico's focus on power couple](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico's focus on power couple
Beneath the stars as dusk fell, Maria de los Angeles Pineda and her husband were dancing. But then came word that a demonstration was forming in the town plaza.
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Stolen radioactive load found empty
Mexican nuclear official have said a stolen container of radioactive material has been found empty.
![Don't belieb it - tweets Mexico's president](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Don't belieb it - tweets Mexico's president
Mexico's president has denied a tweet by Justin Bieber saying the singer met with the president and his family prior to a show.
![Mexico floods kill 80, landslide fears](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico floods kill 80, landslide fears
The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico has risen to 80, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher.
![Mexico death toll 47; Acapulco tourists stranded](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mexico death toll 47; Acapulco tourists stranded
The death toll has risen to 47 from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time.