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When Felipe Calderon, the former president of Mexico and the architect of its decade-long drug war, sat down to talk with families of the dead and missing seven years ago, Maria Herrera Magdalena was there, lambasting him for starting a deadly conflict that her country folk never asked for. Four years ago, when those same […]
The president of Mexico’s Senate smiled into the camera and flipped the lid of his red Tupperware. No costly expense account meals for me, proclaimed Martí Batres, a senior ally of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as he took to social media to challenge legislators to embrace austerity by bringing their own packed lunches. In […]
Chain explosions rocked a fireworks factory, killing 24 in the city of Tultepec, which is renowned for its mesmerizing and dangerous pyrotechnic shows. Among the deceased were first responders who rushed to the scene. The blasts struck the factory, which has been operating without a license, at 9:40 am on Thursday. As firefighters, police officers […]
Emilio Álvarez Icaza stands in the center of Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Square, rallying the crowd with promises to reform the federal government by tackling “chronic impunity” and eliminating “friends with benefits.” The 52-year-old sociologist is the leader of Ahora (“now” in Spanish), a collaborative movement he launched in February 2017 to revamp Mexico’s political system. […]
Published time: 29 Sep, 2017 05:55 An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale has struck off the coast of southern Mexico, 119 kilometers (73.9 miles) from Tres Picos. The quake had a depth of 21.7 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). It comes less than two weeks after Mexico was hit by […]
