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Venezuela Into Copa America Quarterfinals After Mexico Victory, Jamaica Out

June 27, 2024 admin

Venezuela booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa America on Wednesday with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Mexico that ensured Jamaica’s elimination from the tournament. Mexico-based veteran striker Salomon Rondon stroked in the only goal from the penalty spot to seal all three points for Venezuela, who are top of Group…

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Mexico’s Political Assassinations Reach 37 Ahead Of Tomorrow’s Polls

June 1, 2024 admin

Ruling party hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum is widely expected to win Sunday’s vote. Mexico City: Mexico’s election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday’s vote….

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Heat Waves In Mexico Lead To Submerged Homes

May 28, 2024 admin

Tabasco is one of the areas of Mexico hit hardest by this year’s heat waves. El Bosque, Mexico: Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village slowly being swallowed by the sea — a symbol of the climate change effects being felt by the major fossil fuel producer. The school where Adrian Perez used…

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It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees

May 22, 2024 admin

It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. At least 138 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco since May 16, according to the Biodiversity Conservation of The Usumacinta group. Others were rescued by…

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The national and regional impact of Ecuador’s raids in Mexico | Explained

April 22, 2024 admin

The story so far: A political and diplomatic chasm has split Latin America. The epicentre of the crisis is Ecuador’s capital Quito; the immediate trigger was a police raid on the Mexican Embassy to arrest a political opponent convicted of corruption. President Daniel Noboa, in an unprecedented move, ordered raids on the embassy to arrest…

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Relatives of missing Mexicans say they found bags of human remains

March 26, 2024 admin

A group of mothers from the collective “Guerreros Buscadores” remain in the area where they found two clandestine crematory ovens and 27 bags with human remains during the search for their relatives in El Salto, Jalisco State, Mexico. | Photo Credit: AFP A group of relatives searching for some of Mexico’s roughly 100,000 missing persons…

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Early jacaranda bloom sparks debate about climate change in Mexicoca

February 27, 2024 admin

Jacaranda tree blooms in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico. February 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Every spring, the streets of Mexico’s capital are painted purple with the flowering of thousands of jacaranda trees. Their spectacular colours not only attract the eyes of residents and tourists but also birds, bees and butterflies that…

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11 Police Officers Killed In Armed Attack In Mexico: Authorities

October 23, 2023 admin

An armed attack left at least 11 police officers dead on Monday in Southern Mexico. (Representational) Acapulco, Mexico: Two armed attacks on Monday left at least 16 people dead, including a dozen police officers, in regions of Mexico plagued by violence related to drug trafficking, authorities said. In the southern state of Guerrero, unidentified attackers…

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Mexico Police Arrest Chucky Doll For Using Knife To Scare People

September 24, 2023 admin

The doll in handcuffs. In a very unusual incident, the police in Mexico arrested a Chucky doll which was being used by its owner to scare people, as per a report in the New York Post. Carlos “N” used Chucky, a doll that local authorities there have dubbed a “demon doll”, to terrorise residents by…

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Son Of Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Pleads Not Guilty To US Trafficking Charges

September 18, 2023 admin

Ovidio Guzman was briefly arrested in Culiacan in the northern state of Sinaloa in 2019. Chicago: Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, pleaded not guilty to U.S. fentanyl trafficking charges on Monday in federal court in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune, three days after his…

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