Here are the five largest slums in the world: Neza-Chalco-Itza: One of Mexico City's many barrios, Neza-Chalco-Itza is the largest slum in the world with roughly four million people. Slums in ...

Millions of people from Mexico’s countryside come to the capital to build settlements and slums, adding to the ongoing expansion of one of the world’s biggest cities. Around the world ...

But Mexico fell disastrously short of creating ... payments that rose even as their neighborhoods deteriorated into slums. The Times visited 50 of the affordable-housing developments from Tijuana ...

The streets of the slum are more alive by day and by night than any other part of Mexico City, with death a daily reality due to the bloody gang rivalries in drug trafficking and many other ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...

Chalco and neighboring Ixtapaluca, once charming colonial towns, became some of Mexico's worst slums. During his presidency in the late 1980s, Carlos Salinas de Gortari made the communities models ...

A metal cross marks the spot where the body of a murdered woman was thrown on the side of the road leading into the sprawling hillside slums ... and most dangerous in Mexico.

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City, the young ...