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Mexico Death Count Due to COVID Exceeds 100,000
Mexico is the now the fourth country to record 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
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Storyteller Entertains Kids in Mexico City Apartment Complex
Percibald Garcia recognized that confinement during the coronavirus lockdown is especially tedious for children.
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Gunmen Wound Mexico City Police Chief; 3 Dead
Heavily armed gunmen have attacked and wounded Mexico City’s police chief in a brazen operation that left three people dead
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Powerful 7.4 Quake Rocks Mexico
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the resort town of Huatulco in Mexico.
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Mariachis Show Support for Mexico's Healthcare Workers
A group of mariachis played songs outside a hospital in Mexico City to show support for medical workers battling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump Policy Puts Migrants in Danger in Mexico, Advocates Say
Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.
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Half of Trains in Mexico Found Carrying Migrants
Mexico said Thursday it has found migrants riding on about half of trains inspected.
While the largest number of migrants were detained while walking — 41,649 between June and Dec. 22 — many migrants walk along tracks hoping to hop onto a passing train.
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Actor Alejandro Sandí, French Man Let Go a Day After Abduction
A French citizen and a Mexican actor who played secondary roles in the Telemundo TV narco series “El Senor de los Cielos” were let go by their abductors Monday, a day after robbers snatched them and stole the SUV they were driving in near a popular mountain peak west of Mexico City. The Mexico State prosecutor’s office confirmed in a...
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Journalists Sue Trump Administration Over Border Surveillance Program
Five American journalists subject to controversial surveillance tactics at the border are now suing the Trump administration for allegedly violating their constitutionally-protected rights.
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Bolivia's Crisis Turns Deadly Again as 5 Killed in Clash
Bolivia’s political crisis turned deadly again when security forces opened fire on supporters of Evo Morales. At least five people died and dozens were injured, threatening the interim government’s efforts to restore stability following the resignation of the former president in an election dispute. Most of the dead and injured Friday in Sacaba, near the city of Cochabamba, had been...
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Hamilton Clinches F1 Championship No. 6 at US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas
Lewis Hamilton secured his sixth Formula One championship with a second-place finish Sunday at the U.S. Grand Prix, a race won by his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.
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30,000 Unidentified Corpses Causing ‘Crisis' in Mexico: Agency
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Thursday there are more than 30,000 unclaimed and unidentified corpses, and an uncalculated number of skeletal remains, piling up at morgues across the country. The governmental commission said there is “a crisis in the area of forensic identification,” because morgues lack funds, personnel and equipment to properly examine bodies. Mexico’s mounting wave of homicides...
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Mexico Backs Off Effort to Capture ‘El Chapo' Son After Gunbattle
Mexican security forces backed off an attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious shootout with cartel enforcers that left at least eight people dead and more than 20 wounded, authorities said Friday. The gunbattle Thursday paralyzed the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state and left the streets littered...
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Thousands Mourn Mexican Singer José José at Homage
Thousands of people lined major boulevards Wednesday to catch a glimpse of the hearse bearing the ashes of singer José José, who was memorialized in a tribute at the majestic Palace of Fine Arts and a Mass at one of Latin America’s most important Roman Catholic shrines.
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Auction of Seized Jewelry Helps Mexico's Poor
Hundreds of pieces of jewelry seized by the government were auctioned off in Mexico City on Sunday under a program aimed at helping poor and elderly residents.
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Puerto Ricans Try to Forge Movement to Oust Governor
On a colonial plaza behind the governor’s mansion, a small group of men and women laid out the shoes of people who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, each decorated with a blue flower. The shoes were first laid out on the steps of the U.S. territory’s capitol last year as a protest against government refusal to acknowledge the...
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Diplo's ‘Mad Decent Block Party' Abruptly Canceled: Gillette Stadium
Diplo’s “Mad Decent Block Party” music festival scheduled to take place at Gillette Stadium this month has been abruptly cancelled, the stadium announced Wednesday. Gillette Stadium tweeted the event was canceled “due to circumstances beyond our control.”
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‘Mad Decent Block Party' Abruptly Cancelled
A father and daughter in Mexico City had plans to see the “Super Mega Ultra Giant Mad Decent Block Party Festival” at Gillette Stadium, but the music festival was nixed at short notice.
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Mexican President Gets Little Backlash for Migrant Crackdown
Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard are raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes of weeping Central American mothers piled into police vans along with their children and overflowing detention centers with deplorable conditions. Such scenes have caused an outcry in the United States, but in Mexico there has been little backlash against the government of...
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Tens of Thousands Join Gay Pride Parades Around the World
Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world on Saturday, including a boisterous party in Mexico and the first pride march in North Macedonia’s capital. Rainbow flags and umbrellas swayed and music pounded as the march along Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma avenue got underway, with couples, families and activists seeking to raise...