Americas

Claudia Sheinbaum was born to Jewish parents, but she has played down her heritage on the campaign trail.

The documentary “State of Silence,” premiering at the Tribeca Festival, uses personal stories to explain the bleak situation for journalists in Mexico.

Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change.

Claudia Sheinbaum was projected to win the presidential race in a landslide victory, which was a vote of confidence to continue the leftist policies of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Here are five key insights into Mexico’s new president as people wonder whether she will diverge from Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies or focus on cementing his legacy.

See results and maps for Mexico’s 2024 presidential election.

A climate scientist and former mayor, Ms. Sheinbaum became the first woman and Jewish person elected as president of the country.

Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

Since September, the Marubo, an isolated Amazon tribe, were connected to high-speed internet through Elon Musk’s Starlink. Jack Nicas, The New York Times’s Brazil bureau chief, visited the tribe’s remote Indigenous villages to see what the internet has changed for them.

Convicted in the murder of six women (though he boasted of killing many more), he died of unspecified injuries after being assaulted in prison.