By MARK LORENZANA Another powerful earthquake shook Mexico in the early-morning hours of Thursday, Sept. 22, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, according to the National Seismological Service (SSN). The quake, which hit at 1:16 a.m. in the morning and sent nervous residents across the capital and central Mexico rushing into the street, was, in fact, an aftershock of the
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 29, the families of 10 Mexican miners – who have been trapped inside a flooded mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, without outside contact since Aug. 3 – accepted the Mexican government’s proposal to recover their relatives’ bodies though an up to 11-month-long excavation process and essentially accepting the miners’ lives as already lost. The National
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XINHUA At least 27 people have died and thousands have been displaced or left homeless from severe flooding in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco as a result of unprecedented downpours in the region, top officials said on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. “There was record rainfall,” said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his morning press
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