OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Never mind that he has absolutely no diplomatic experience or training. Never mind that he knows nothing about the current armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And never mind that he has set as his “chief priority” the objective of making Wikipedia pay more heed to Mexican history (rather than such petty issues as bilateral trade,
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XINHUA Children living in impoverished areas are the most vulnerable group in Mexico due to a lack of adequate education services during the covid-19 pandemic, according to Maria Teresa Reyes Ruiz, a social sciences researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Most households suffered a drop in income or unemployment of at least one family member, impacting the
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XINHUA Mexico’s Caribbean resort region is facing an ecological catastrophe due to a mysterious contagious disease that has damaged up to 50 percent of all local marine coral species, according to Lorenzo Álvarez Filip, a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “This is a disease of tissue loss in hard corals, and the pathogen is still unknown,
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By KELIN DILLON According to a group of psychologists and sociologists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and La Salle University, Mexico’s enduring violence against women and femicide crisis is a result of a number factors: the continued normalization of violence in the country, repeated impunity for perpetrators and the Mexican government’s methodology of publicly characterizing protestors against
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XINHUA Mexican-born Flor Molina was once a victim of modern slavery, condemned to forced labor in the garment manufacturing industry in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, California, after emigrating there with the help of a person who turned out to be a human trafficker. For 40 days, she was coerced into working 18 hours a day at a garment
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By MARK LORENZANA In a span of seven months, between October 2021 and May 2022, the arrests of Mexican migrants trying to cross into the United States soared 35.2 percent. There had been 560,579 arrests in that period, compared to 414,345 arrests from October 2020 to May 2021, according to U.S. government figures. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
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By MARK LORENZANA The value of oil imports and the trade deficit in hydrocarbons reached an all-time high in the first five months of the year due to the global rise in crude oil prices, a situation that could complicate Mexico’s public finances, experts said on Tuesday, June 28. From January to May of this year, the prices of light
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By MARK LORENZANA Agents of Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) accused their superiors on Thursday, June 9, of heading a corruption network to extort migrants. According to the complaint, managers are forcing employees to charge up to $1,000 to facilitate the transit of undocumented passengers. In addition to the complaint are various
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XINHUA Scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have developed a new technique that can clean up oil, as well as radioactive substances, fertilizers, drugs and other pollutants dumped in the ocean. The innovative technique involves nanotubes made from halloysite, a naturally occurring clay mineral, and magnetite, a highly magnetic mineral. “We can apply a magnetic field to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As temperatures and stagnant air continue to plague Mexico City and the Valley of Mexico, leading to high ozone levels, the Megalopolis Environmental Commission (Came) determined later Tuesday, May 3, that Phase I of the ozone contingency plan would be maintained, at least through Wednesday, May 4. Ozone levels in parts of the capital
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