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In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane John is shown at 10:15am EDT southwest of Mexico's coast August 30, 2006. (Photo by NOAA via Getty Images)
Tomas Bravo / Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama is welcomed by Mexico's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade during his arrival to the presidential hangar at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, May 2, 2013.
PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO / EPA
Enrique Pena Nieto with Barack Obama during a tour of the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, 02 May 2013.
John Moore / Getty Images
WELLINGTON, CO - OCTOBER 11: Mexican migrant workers harvest organic parsley at Grant Family Farms on October 11, 2011 in Wellington, Colorado. Although demand for the farm's organic produce is high, Andy Grant said that his migrant labor force, mostly from Mexico, is sharply down this year and that he'll be unable to harvest up to a third of his fall crops, leaving vegetables in the fields to rot. He said that stricter U.S. immigration policies nationwide have created a "climate of fear" in the immigrant community and many workers have either gone back to Mexico or have been deported. Although Grant requires proof of legal immigration status from his employees, undocumented migrant workers frequently obtain falsified permits in order to work throughout the U.S. Many farmers nationwide say they have found it nearly impossible to hire American citizens for seasonal labor-intensive farm work. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto.
Dario Lopez-Mills, file / AP
In this Friday July 14, 2006 file photo, teachers' union head Elba Esther Gordillo gestures as she arrives to attend a meeting with education workers a day after being expelled from Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico City. Gordillo, the head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union, was arrested at an airport outside Mexico City on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, for alleged embezzlement.
JUAN CARLOS ULATE / REUTERS
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attends a ceremony to receive the Keys to the City at the National Museum in San Jose Feb. 20, 2013.
Not originally published in LIFE. The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Caption from LIFE. “At bay in Mexico, Cook blinks his good eye against photographers’ flashes.”
Caption from LIFE. "At bay in Mexico, Cook blinks his good eye against photographers' flashes."
Not originally published in LIFE. In Tijuana, Mexico, spree killer William Cook is sent back to the United States after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. In Tijuana, Mexico, spree killer William Cook is sent back to the United States after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. A crowd in Tijuana, Mexico, watches as spree killer William Cook is sent back to the United States after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. A crowd in Tijuana, Mexico, watches as spree killer William Cook is sent back to the United States after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook prior to being sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
Not originally published in LIFE. Spree killer William Cook prior to being sent back to the United States from Mexico after capture, January 1951.
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A Mayan dancer performs at the Xcaret Eco Theme Park on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Amid a worldwide frenzy of advertisers and new-agers preparing for a Maya apocalypse, one group is approaching Dec. 21 with calm and equanimity, the people whose ancestors supposedly made the prediction in the first place.
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MONTERREY, MEXICO - DECEMBER 08: Mexican singer Jenni Rivera sings during her last concert at the Arena Monterrey on December 08, 2012 in Monterrey, Mexico.
American sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right), after winning gold and bronze Olympic medals in the 200m, respectively, raise their fists in a Black Power salute, Mexico, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left.
American sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right), after winning gold and bronze Olympic medals in the 200m, respectively, raise their fists in a Black Power salute, Mexico, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left.
Daniel Becerril / Reuters
Soldiers stand in formation as a pile of marijuana and other nercotics are incinerated at the 7th Military Zone on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, June 22, 2012. More than two tons of narcotics, including marijuana, heroin, cocaine and pills, were incinerated as part of the Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas anti-drug operation, according to local media.
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A Mexican soldier pulls up marijuana plants found amid a field of blue agave in El Llano, Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco State, Mexico, Sept. 27, 2012. Members of the Mexican military conducted an operation in the area where so far they have destroyed 40 hectares of marijuana plantations and burned more than 50 tons of plants.
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Enrique Pena Nieto addresses supporters after delivering a victory speech on July 1, 2012 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria descends in the desert during the second manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos, in Roswell, New Mexico, July 25, 2012. Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space at an altitude of 120,000 ft (37.000 meters), in a stratospheric balloon. The goal is to break several records including exceeding the sound of speed in freefall.
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Tennessee Williams in Mexico in 1963 during filming of a movie from his play, The Night of the Iguana, in 1963.
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Unpublished. Women jockeys in Baja California, Mexico, 1940.
Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Women jockeys in Baja California, Mexico, 1940.
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Chimps in training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, 1960. Ham and his cohorts were picked for the Mercury program over other hominids (gorillas and orangutans) because they're smaller -- and thus could fit in the Mercury capsule -- and because, more importantly, "chimpanzees have physical and mental characteristics similar to man," as LIFE pointed out in its Feb. 10 1961 issue.
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An astrochimp is loaded into a plane at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, for a zero-gravity flight, 1961.
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A U.S. patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Mexico
Felipe Courzo / Reuters
PRI candidate Eruviel Avila, center, in Mexico City on April 9, 2011, won Mexico State's election for governor this month
AP / Marco Ugarte
Eruviel Avila, the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) gubernatorial candidate in the state of Mexico, casts his vote in Ecatepec, Mexico, Sunday July 3, 2011.
Reuters
Florence Cassez of France (C) walks with Mexican boyfriend Israel Vallarta (R) after their arrest by members of Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency's (AFI) on a ranch outskirts of Mexico City in this December 5, 2009 photograph.
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Volunteer Tim Doherty inspects an empty water jug, cast off by immigrants crossing into Arizona from Mexico, on July 31, 2010, near Green Valley, Arizona. Doherty conducts patrols for the nonprofit Samaritans, delivering water to points near the border
Alejandro Acosta / Reuters
Mexican soldiers stand guard on a street in Guadalajara City, Mexico July 29, 2010. Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a major Mexican drug trafficker, was killed during an army operation in Zapopan.
Mexican federal police and forensic experts stand next to the body of 14 year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca, under the Paso Del Norte border bridge, as US officials watch from the US side at right, in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Monday, June 7, 2010. Sergio Adrian was the second killing of a Mexican National by U.S. officials in the last two weeks.
Claudia Daut / Reuters
Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon, during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City
Eduardo Verdugo / AP
Rene Perez, of the Puerto Rican band Calle 13, performs at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City. The words on his back translate as "Green light to invade Arizona"
Omar Torres / AFP / Getty
Police officers investigate the crime scene where federal police officer Edgar Bayardo was killed in Mexico City on Dec. 1, 2009. Bayardo had recently entered a witness-protection program
Steve Raymer / Corbis
An honor guard of Mexican Army military police officers lowers the national flag of Mexico in Plaza de la Constitucion (Constitution Square) in Mexico City.
Adriana Zehbrauskas / Polaris
Pigs at the Granjas Carroll de Mexico pig farm in Perote, Veracruz, Mexico
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Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during a ceremony to commemorate International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking in Mexico City.
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A vendor waits for customers at an artisan market in Rosarito, Mexico. The tourist industry in some Northern Mexican resort towns is feeling the effects of the ongoing drug war.
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A child walks close to a measuring pile at the lake reservoir, in Villa Victoria, outside of Mexico City, on April 7, 2009. Authorities reported on Tuesday this will be one of the most serious water shortages in recent memory.
Anthony Suau for TIME
Over 2000 drug-related murders have been recorded in Mexico this year, vastly outpacing previous years. Many of the most grizzly have gone down in the desert city of Culiacan, where dozens of armed state policeman, along with the Mexican military, have been deployed in a Federal effort to contain the problem.
El Debate de Sinaloa / EPA
Mexican police examine a crime scene in Novolato, Sinaloa State, Mexico. Five victims were found.
Gregory Bull / AP
Mexican federal police officers escort detained men from a home in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Eleven alleged hit men for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel were captured.
Teran / TBWA / AP
An advertisement created for Swedish Absolut Vodka that ran in Mexico shows a map of the border of Mexico and the United States where it stood before the Mexican-American War of 1848.
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Members of Mexico's Red Cross prepare to take a body from the scene where an explosive device went off in Mexico City on February 15, 2008.
David Oziel / AP
Police officers stand next to packages of cocaine seized from a ship in Manzanillo, Mexico. The seizure, around 23.6 metric tons (26 tons) of cocaine, is considered to be one of the biggest drug busts on record.
Dario Lopez-Mills / AP
Mexico's president Felipe Calderon speaks during a press conference at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, March 5, 2007.
Steven Pumphrey for time
Viva Mexico!
Long-haul trucker Marvin Bryan and his Rx drugs
Courtesy of the Shabazz family, Xiomara Michel / AP
This undated file photo courtesy of the Shabazz family shows Malcolm Shabazz in an unknown location. Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City on Thursday, May 9, 2013.
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Offerings during part of the Day of Dead celebrations on Oct. 31, 2012, in Puebla, Mexico.
PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO / Handout / EPA
From Left: U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at the National Palace in Mexico City, on 02 May 2013.
AP / Dario Lopez-Mills
Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim speaks during news conference at the Soumaya museum in Mexico City on Jan. 14, 2013.
Mexicali Public Safety Department/AP
An improvised cannon that was confiscated earlier in the day in Mexicali, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.
Not originally published in LIFE. Suspected drug smugglers searched at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Suspected drug smugglers searched at the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs’ anti-drug smuggling effort, “Operation Intercept,” along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
The U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.
Caption from LIFE. “Pleased throng watched Cook’s ‘extradition’ at Tijuana. Since the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Mexico, he simply was pushed over the border as an undesirable alien — and into U.S. hands.”
Caption from LIFE. "Pleased throng watched Cook's 'extradition' at Tijuana. Since the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Mexico, he simply was pushed over the border as an undesirable alien -- and into U.S. hands."
Air Force photo / Master Sgt. Jack Braden
An AC-130 Spectre gunship on a training mission over New Mexico.
LM Otero / AP
Mexican immigrant Yesenia Pereyda Martinez is escorted across the bridge to Mexico by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during her deportation in Brownsville, Texas on May 25, 2010.
AFP/Getty Images
President Obama walks past an oil rig in New Mexico on March 21, 2012
Christopher Morris / VII for TIME
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico
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English Premier League team Chelsea forward Juan Mata celebrates his goal against Mexico's Monterrey during their 2012 Club World Cup semi-final football match at Yokohama, Dec. 13, 2012.
Benoit Pesle / Anzenberger / Redux
Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico.
Eduardo Verdugo / AP
A man walks past a life-size bronze statue of late Azerbaijan president Heydar Aliyev on Mexico City's main boulevard, Reforma Avenue, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012.
Reuters
People line up to buy government-subsidized eggs inside a trailer at Arbolillo neighborhood in Mexico City on August 23, 2012.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply in Hobbs, N.M., Aug. 23, 2012. Romney is in New Mexico to unveil his energy plan, which aims at energy independence for North America by 2020.
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A great white shark photographed in Mexico.
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A great white shark photographed in Mexico.
Tomas Bravo / Reuters
A man walks past a mural of trees in Mexico City, August 6, 2012
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Beauty pageant winner Jackie Lee Barnes poses poolside in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1949.
Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Weighing in for the Powder Puff Derby, Agua Caliente Racetrack, Mexico, 1949.
Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Alice Van and her husband/manager place bets at the track in Baja California, Mexico, 1940.
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Border Patrol Agent Adrian Corona looks over to Mexico from the US side of the international border near Calexico, California.
Margarito Perez / Reuters
Javier Sicilia cries while hugging family members in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 1, 2011
Cortesia / Newscom
U.S. missionary Nancy Shuman Davis was killed in northeastern Mexico
Samantha Appleton / Noor / Aurora
A Mexican woman holds her granddaughter, an American citizen. The child's parents crossed the Mexico-U.S. border into Texas to deliver their baby at a Catholic family clinic that specializes in prenatal care and delivery using natural childbirth techniques, but they had to transfer to a hospital because of complications
Marco Ugarte / AP
Soldiers parade during part of Mexico's yearlong bicentennial celebrations.
Marco Ugarte / AP
Unidentified migrants from Honduras wait for a northern bound train during their journey toward the US-Mexico border on the outskirts of Mexico City
EPA / STR
Forensic experts inspect the site in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, where Rodolfo Torre Cantu, a candidate for governor in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, was assassinated on June 28, 2010
Frank Augstein / AP
Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during a news conference in Bonn, western Germany, Sunday May 2, 2010
Shaun Botterill / Getty
Hubertus Von Hohenlohe of Mexico in action during the Mens Downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio, Italy.
AFP / Getty
Arturo Beltran Leyva, head of one of Mexico's top drug cartels, was killed in Cuernavaca along with four members of his gang in a battle with Mexican soldiers
Maya Goded / Magnum
Prostitutes stand around in the La Merced area of Mexico City
Gin Torrero and Alex Marroquin / Red Mint Photography
The new P.F. Chang's restaurant in Mexico City
QUADRATIN / EPA
The work of La Familia? An officer watches over the body of one of the three policemen killed in an attack against federal-police barracks in Zitacuaro, Mexico
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