For example, the poem near the book’s beginning, Vine a Los Angeles (I came to Los Angeles) melds the Aztec origin myth I ...

Las Cruces, in southwestern New Mexico, is nourished by the Rio Grande River and the fertile Mesilla Valley, surrounded by the Chihuahuan Desert and backed in the east ...

The people responsible for the chaos in Los Angeles are a tiny, radical minority out of step with one of the nation's most dynamic and productive demographics.

Nuevo Laredo celebrated its 177th anniversary with a series of events this weekend. In a festive atmosphere that included solemn ceremonies, music, gastronomy and many surprises, residents of the ...

Five months later, on Feb. 2, 1848, Mexico and the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which carved a jagged new border, nearly 2,000 miles long.

But the reality is that the mass Mexican flag-waving isn’t just a PR blunder. They aren’t just waving those flags because they don’t want to be deported back to Mexico. The message they are sending is ...

The U.S. actually paid for the states it acquired from Mexico after winning the war and in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo even agreed to pay the debts they owed American citizens.

The flag of Mexico has become ubiquitous on the streets of America as a protest symbol against Donald Trump and his government’s immigration policies. Which makes sense given that many people in Texas ...

The conflict officially ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where Mexico ceded a vast amount of land, including California, Texas, and other southwestern territories, to the United States ...

When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on Feb. 2, 1848, Mexico ceded about half of its territory to the United States, mainly parts of what are now Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

It ended with a decisive U.S. victory and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which led to the acquisition of vast territories in the West, including present-day California, Arizona and New Mexico.