LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mexican regional music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has proved to be anything but regional, playing a key role ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — When a male driver from a popular rideshare app asked Ninfa Fuentes for her phone number during a ride through Mexico City, she froze. But when ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women ...
The public groping of its first female president has placed Mexico’s epidemic of violence against women into sharp focus. Claudia Sheinbaum was speaking to a group of supporters in Mexico City on ...
LOS ANGELES — Mexican regional music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has proved to be anything but regional, playing a key role in ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office this week as her country's first woman leader, announced a package of reforms on Thursday aimed at bolstering women's ...
Installation view of ‘Sus Voces: Women Printmakers from Mexico’ at Highpoint Printmaking, Minneapolis (all images courtesy Highpoint Printmaking unless otherwise noted) (click to enlarge) MINNEAPOLIS ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An unnamed player for Mexican women's team Mazatlan has been banned for six years after a probe into match-fixing. The Mexican soccer federation said the ban was the result of an ...
The issue isn’t new. Women have long fought for representation in genres like hip-hop and country, and while some styles have made strides toward gender parity, Mexican regional music is among those ...
Now, women are carving their own space, often singing lyrics that differ from their male counterparts, tailored around love, heartbreak and the woman's experience. “In this particular genre, women are ...