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For Now, the Pandemic Hasn’t Reached Mexico

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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that thus far in these coronavirus adventurous times, Mexico has registered only about 120 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 syndrome, and only one death. But in the eyes of Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, now the official government spokesman on the pandemic, the ordeal is just getting started and the projected worse

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lztapalapa Takes Passion to New Level

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Talk about a cast of thousands! That’s what you can expect when you attend the annual Passion play performance in Mexico City’s eastern Iztapalapa borough this Easter week. The yearly reenactment of Jesus Christ’s last supper, betrayal and procession of the 12 Stations of the Cross, is a neighborhood affair that incorporates the performances of more than

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