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Playa del Carmen Mayor: Our City is Safe for Tourists

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Despite a recent surge in violence and the shooting death of seven men in a local bar on Jan. 5, Playa del Carmen is a safe destination for tourism, the Mexican Caribbean resort town’s recently instated mayor, Laura Esther Beristáin Navarrete told a small gathering of journalists in Mexico City on Wednesday, Jan. 9. “Yes, we have

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Can the EZLN Stop AMLO’s Tren Maya?

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     After a quarter-century hiatus from the eye of the global media, one of the country’s most enigmatic and controversial political entities, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), has returned to the public spotlight as one of newly instated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most unexpected and vocal nemeses. The far-left EZLN, which began as a

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