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Mexico’s most popular president in decades is retiring. What will he leave behind?
3 months ago

Mexico’s most popular president in decades is retiring. What will he leave behind?

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Many Mexicans will feel a deep sense of loss when folksy, charismatic, nationalistic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador leaves office on Sept. 30 — and that’s no surprise. A supporter of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sporting a tattoo of the president arrives for a march to show support for Lopez Obrador’s administration in Mexico City, …

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A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Claudia Sheinbaum, who will be Mexico’s first woman leader in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence, captured the presidency by promising continuity. Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. A supporter of presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum takes a selfie with a campaign …

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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
6 months, 3 weeks ago

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Associated Press  

May 24 - 30, 2024 Bolivians paid tribute to Jesus Christ in one of the country’s biggest and most extravagant festivals, featuring a mixture of Catholicism and Indigenous beliefs. Due to rising sea levels, about 300 Indigenous Guma families are set to relocate from Gardi Sugdub island on Panama’s Caribbean coast to homes on the mainland built by the government. …

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A violent, polarized Mexico goes to the polls to choose between 2 women presidential candidates
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A violent, polarized Mexico goes to the polls to choose between 2 women presidential candidates

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. Soledad Echagoyen, a Mexico City doctor who supports President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, says she can no longer talk about politics …

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‘We are tired, angry and mad’: 180,000 women march in Mexico City
9 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We are tired, angry and mad’: 180,000 women march in Mexico City

Al Jazeera  

By midday on March 8, 2024, small groups of women dressed in lilac, wearing purple bandanas tied around their wrists, hair and necks, started to congregate in Mexico City. ¡Somos un chingo, cuéntanos bien!” “There are so many women,” said Ileana Alvarez Mendoza, 40, who attended the march with her 10-year-old daughter, Emiliana Leyva Alvarez. A group of women at …

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The Day of the Dead in Mexico is a celebration for the 5 senses
1 year, 1 month ago

The Day of the Dead in Mexico is a celebration for the 5 senses

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The Day of the Dead in Mexico smells like cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. Gerardo Ramírez, who over the years become almost blind, sums it all up in one line: “You honor people, you connect with the past.” THE SMELL THAT GUIDES YOU FROM THE UNDERWORLD Together, two smells show dead souls the way out of the …

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Photos: Rebounding from Covid, people prepare for Christmas festivities
2 years ago

Photos: Rebounding from Covid, people prepare for Christmas festivities

Hindustan Times  

Photos: Rebounding from Covid, people prepare for Christmas festivities Citizens across the globe prepare to welcome Christmas after a two year Covid hiatus. 4 / 15 View Photos in a new improved layout People gather around a Christmas tree decorated with the colors of the Ukrainian national flag at Sophia square in Kyiv, on December 23. 7 / 15 View …

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To protest machismo, women played soccer in Mexico City’s central square
2 years, 9 months ago

To protest machismo, women played soccer in Mexico City’s central square

LA Times  

Female soccer groups play on Mexico City´s main square, the Zocalo, on Wednesday to protest the machismo in the sport.. “There’s a different way to play the sport that’s contrary to the machista practices, the discrimination, which promotes companionship and solidarity,” said Pilar Tlatempa, a 26-year-old member of Barra Feminista, one of several women’s soccer groups that organized the event, …

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500 years later, Mexico recalls but doesn’t celebrate Spanish conquest
3 years, 4 months ago

500 years later, Mexico recalls but doesn’t celebrate Spanish conquest

LA Times  

An ancient Aztec temple, foreground, and a Spanish colonial church, top center, stand amid modern buildings in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City. The plaza honors Indigenous Mexico, Spanish colonialism and the “modern” mixed-race Mexico that resulted from Spain’s conquest 500 years ago. “We are what we are because Hernán Cortés, for good or for bad, did what …

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