For centuries, the port of Veracruz and its neighbouring city of Xalapa were the gateways to New Spain. Viceroys and serfs, china and silver, all moved through this once mighty port on the Gulf of ...

Located on the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz City is a historic and culturally rich coastal hub that has served as a key maritime gateway since the 16th century. Off its shores lies a small island marked ...

Awash in the sounds and sights of the past, the state and city of Veracruz are refreshingly, movingly Mexican—home to some of the country’s most spectacular (and mysterious) archaeological haunts and ...

This first-person historical perspective was submitted to us by Bellvue resident and adventure cyclist Charles Lynch. Imagine living five hundred years ago during Spain’s Golden Age of maritime ...

Reporting from Veracruz, Mexico — The callers to the radio program were voicing their support for the Matazetas, the Zeta killers. Better they fight among themselves. Let them kill each other.

At least 28 people burned to death in the port city of Veracruz when an inferno was ignited by tons of illegally stored fireworks, once again turning Mexico’s love of pyrotechnics into deadly chaos.