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Crowd in Mexico stops gay couple from being arrested as they chant ‘I’m gay too’ at cops
A gay couple were handcuffed by armed police “for kissing” on a beach in Mexico. A series of videos of the incident, posted to Facebook, appear to show police ushering the couple into the back of a vehicle as a crowd of fellow beachgoers chant “I’m gay too” in solidarity.
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Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds
The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies.
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Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19, symptoms mild
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he has tested positive for COVID-19, making the announcement as his country registers the highest levels of infections and deaths to date
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Pink seesaws across US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020
Creators say they hope the work encourages people to build bridges between communities
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Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies
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A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalist’s story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico
A consortium of international journalists has come together to carry on Regina Martínez’s investigative work.
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The disappeared: Inside families’ risky search to uncover the truth behind Mexico’s mass graves
What happens when a loved one simply vanishes? In Mexico, sixteen people go missing every day. These families turned to the government and the police to no avail, before discovering the grim answer for themselves
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Mexico issues arrest warrants on sixth anniversary of disappearance of 43 college students
Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers whom they believe may have participated in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students, head of the investigation said on Saturday.
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Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones
The tactic has become widespread on battlefields overseas and now appears to be proliferating to organized crime.
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Mexico moves to ban junk food sales to children, citing obesity as coronavirus risk factor
With 56,000 dead of covid-19, Mexico states ban the sale of junk food to minors as a way to reduce risk factors like obesity
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
It was a simple stroke of serendipity that led to the discovery in Mexico of the earliest underground ochre mine in the New World, which a new journal article describes as a vast prehistoric industrial complex as much as 12 millennia old, where Paleonindians prospected for the valuable red iron-rich mineral that is a major factor in human evolution.
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We've just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet
The 3000-year-old site of Aguada Fénix is the oldest and largest Mayan monument to be discovered and dates from a time before the society had a powerful ruling class
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Oldest and largest ancient Maya structure found in Mexico
Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectangular elevated platform built between 1,000 and 800 BC in Mexico's Tabasco state.
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The Remarkable Power of the Prickly Pear
A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.
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How a trickle of water is breathing life into the parched Colorado River Delta
In the long-dry Colorado River Delta in Mexico, environmental groups are using small amounts of water to restore wetlands and forests one area at a time.
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Mexican president vows to bail out the poor, not big companies, in coronavirus response
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would focus his response to the coronavirus outbreak on helping the poor rather than major companies as the virus spreads in Mexico, and that he would unveil more details on Tuesday. Officials counted 367 cases on Monday, up from 316 the day before, with a total of four deaths, including two people who had diabetes.
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Instead of a new airport, Mexico might build one of the world’s largest urban parks
Can the 30,000-acre Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco in Mexico City restore the water systems of the region and serve as a model for others around the world?
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Mexico City’s ‘walking fish’
While gaining traction as a symbol of Mexico City, these curious amphibians offer hope for healing the human body, but face near extinction in the wild.
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Why were two Mexican butterfly activists found dead?
Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.
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Aerial Views of Mexico's Dystopian Housing Developments
These developments' rigorous geometries conceal a lack of human amenities.
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