U.S. District Judge David Carter sentenced Florencia member Francisco Flores, 24, to life in prison on Wednesday, saying that he “preyed on victims because they were black and for no other ...

The documents unsealed this week call Arturo Castellanos a Mexican Mafia member and the undisputed leader of the Florencia 13 criminal street gang in south Los Angeles County.

As the first opera by a Mexican composer and, astonishingly, the first Spanish-language opera commissioned by a major U.S. opera company, Daniel Catán's "Florencia en el Amazonas" had by its very ...

The robbery and killing of LAPD officer Fernando Arroyo Jan. 10 was allegedly the work of Florencia 13 (F13), a Latino street gang largely controlled by the Mexican Mafia.

Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.

Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez is a freelance writer in New York focused on the economics and politics of developing countries. She is a recent graduate of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland ...

The Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas,” which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Thursday, is well-traveled; it has had several productions and been seen in ...