What is La Merced Market? La Merced is one of the city's largest markets. It is also quite old and can be traced back to the 1860s. A majority of the market is fruit and vegetables, but it is also ...

Mexico City is full of food markets, and most of them are places of wonder. Cleaver-wielding butchers jammed in shoulder-to-shoulder with spice merchants and vegetable-sellers carefully tending their ...

Mexico City’s love affair with food – from street-side tacos to warm, fluffy tamales that give off a puff of aromatic steam when released from their husks – is abiding and all-encompassing, and no ...

La Merced isn't just the name of the market or the old monastery the market was named for, it's the name of the whole area, which makes it easier to find. Not that you'll need it: this is one of ...

A video recorded by X user Blass shows a powerful nighttime fire burning through streets near the La Merced market. The ...