Historians estimate between 2,000 and 10,000 enslaved people used this route to freedom in Mexico, compared with an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 who fled north to the free states of the United States.

The Underground Hunt for Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin. Story by José de Córdoba ... Behind it was a well-lit tunnel, tall enough to walk through, leading down beneath the house.

Archaeologists in Campeche, Mexico, have found an underground structure beneath a Maya ball court, as well as offerings on top of a Maya pyramid at another site.

The new hip-hop musical tells the story of the 4,000 and 6,000 enslaved people who fled to Mexico between 1829 and 1865 -- and the Spanish-speaking allies south of the border who defended them ...

New Mexico has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy over the renewal of a permit for the federal government’s only underground repository for nuclear waste.

Archaeologists Discover Entrance to the Zapotec Underworld Beneath a Church in Mexico New scans of the site have confirmed the existence of an “underground labyrinth” ...

In 1984, a series of explosions in underground gas pipelines rocked the town of San Juan Ixhuatepec, on the northern edge of Mexico City. The blasts devastated a third of the town, killing 452 ...

The Underground Hunt for Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin Iván Archivaldo Guzmán evades capture by using tactics he learned from his father, ‘El Chapo’ By Steve Fisher and ...