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Mexico's president vowed to end the drug war. Instead he's doubled the number of troops in the streets

MEXICO CITY — After cartels unleashed a wave of violence across Mexico last week, killing civilians, blocking roads with burning vehicles and setting dozens of stores on fire, the government here responded as it often does to an outbreak of lawlessness: It sent in the troops.

Los Angeles Times

Mexico records deadliest year yet for journalists, with 18 murders so far -report

MEXICO CITY - This year will be the deadliest on record for journalists in Mexico, with 18 killed so far, human rights organization Article 19 said in a report Thursday.

Reuters

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Trans Citizens Fight for ‘the Right to Exist’ in Mexico

Unable to change their ID documents to reflect their gender, trans residents in Chiapas & 12 other Mexican states are denied certain rights.

Texas Observer

Murders at the border and attacks in Jalisco and Guanajuato stun Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Dramatic bouts of violence and mayhem in two regions of Mexico this week have left at least 12 dead and dozens of businesses torched, dramatizing the ability of crime gangs to wreak havoc and shatter the semblance of normality almost anywhere in the country without warning.

Los Angeles Times

'Extravagant' abandoned hotel haunted by its architect and it's illegal to enter

The creepy Posada Del Sol in Mexico City was meant to be a centre for artistic minds to meet but has become a place filled with ghosts, from its designer to a little child

Daily Mirror

Volunteer networks in Mexico aid at-home abortions without involving doctors or clinics. They’re coming to Texas.

Before abortion was legal in parts of Mexico, an extensive “accompaniment” system grew to help women safely terminate pregnancies on their own. Its organizers are now moving abortion-inducing medication across the border and helping replicate the system in the United States.

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Listen: Abortion is considered basic health care in Mexico City. Its clinics are open to U.S. women.

Private clinics offer abortions at a fraction of the cost in the United States. City public health clinics may be more difficult to navigate but offer abortions free of charge, including for noncitizens.

The Texas Tribune

'The government didn't do anything': Mexican, Brazilian monkeypox responses draw concern

Francisco's lesions started after returning home to Mexico City from California in late June: First, two spots on his buttocks. Then, a week later, lesions all over his body, his mouth so full of sores that he could barely talk or drink water.

Reuters

Cops Seize 1.6 Tons Of Cocaine Destined For L.A. In Record Mexico City Bust

Police arrested four suspects who come from the state of Durango. Three of them have criminal records.

Zenger

Mexico travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

Crescent-shaped and tapering like an ocean-flanked chilli pepper, Mexico has pure, tropical beaches fringing each coast, creative, colourful cities, unforgettable festivals and Mayan ruins worth the detour

The Independent UK

‘I think they’ve got the pieces,’ says Juan Toscano-Anderson of Boston Celtics’ title aspirations

Far from Massachusetts or San Francisco Bay in Mexico City, Juan Toscano Anderson talked about the Celtics with us.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mexico returns 8 bodies of migrants in Texas truck tragedy

A Mexican air force plane has landed at an airport near Mexico City bearing eight bodies of the 53 migrants who were found dead in a truck in Texas last month

The Independent UK

Big gunbattle on edge of Mexico City wounds 2 officers

Officials in Mexico City say two police officers were wounded when police engaged in a a shootout with more than a dozen gunmen armed with a

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Luis Echeverria, a Mexican leader who was blamed for massacres, dies at age 100

The former president, blamed for some of Mexico's worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed.

Reuters

After storm damage, Mexico readies new roof protecting important Aztec ruins

For 14 months, a team of more than 80 engineers, surveyors, restorers, architects and archaeologists have been toiling to protect part of one of Mexico's most important and ancient sites, the Templo Mayor complex - which the Aztecs believed to be the center of the universe.

Tribune News Service

Mexico probes ex-President Pena Nieto for possible use of illicit funds

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s federal prosecutors are investigating former President Enrique Pena Nieto for the use of potentially illicit funds, the first known case against an ex-leader by an administration that pledged for years to crack down on graft at the highest levels of government.

Daily Mirror

Woman left with horrific burns inside her mouth from ice lolly

Maria Cadena, 27, had washed down the lolly with a tequila shot to try and ease her pain, but made the burns even worse while at a festival in Mexico City

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Los Angeles Times

The 53 migrants who died in Texas included this college-educated Honduran couple

MEXICO CITY — Alejandro Miguel Andino Caballero had almost completed his university studies in marketing. His fiancee, Margie Támara Paz Grajeda, had earned a degree in economics. Both viewed education as a means to launch careers and surmount humble origins in Honduras, where endemic poverty, crime and corruption have long…

Reuters

Four Aztec child burials sites discovered in Mexico

In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five centuries ago.

Benzinga

Weed, Snoop Dogg And A Sony Deal: Mexican Rapper Alemán And His Road To Viral Success In Music And Business

Relaxing at home, famous Mexican rapper Erick Raul Alemán Ramirez, a.k.a. Alemán, grabs a bong of Paleolithic dimensions, fills it with weed and lights it up.

Reuters

After two-year hiatus, Mexico City conducts mass ceremony for same-sex couples

Hundreds of Mexican same-sex couples married on Friday, marking the first time that the annual mass ceremony in Mexico City ahead of its Pride parade has taken place after being cancelled for two years due to the pandemic.

Bangkok Post

Mexico's cart ban marks generic shift

In April, the government of Mexico City's central Cuauhtémoc alcaldía, or borough, mandated that all its rótulos -- the hand-painted signs decorating street vendors' kiosks -- be erased.

Los Angeles Times

With Netflix’s ‘Chosen One’ crash, Tijuana loses two pillars of its arts scene

MEXICO CITY — Raymundo Garduño Cruz was an actor, director, producer and baseball fanatic who often placed bets on games between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Reason

Mexico Court Fines Google ~$200M Over Defamatory Google-Hosted Blog Post

From Mexico News Daily Friday: Mexico City court has ordered tech giant Google to pay more than 4 billion pesos (US $196.4 million) to a Mexican lawyer for allowing defamatory information to be published about him on a blogging platform it owns. Ulrich Richter Morales, a criminal lawyer, initiated legal…

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