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Thai Envoy Marks Late King’s Birthday

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Thai Ambassador to Mexico Rommanee Kananurak paid homage to both her country’s late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (who passed away at age 88 in October 2016) and her new king, his only son Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, with a diplomatic reception and buffet lunch at the Presidente InterContinental Hotel in Mexico City’s Colonia Polanco on Monday, Dec. 3. During

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The Night of the Iguala Massacre

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexico City’s streets were filled with demonstrations this past week calling for the “appearance, dead or alive” of 43 normal school students who went missing on the “night of Iguala,” Sept. 26-27, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Four years later, there is one similarity between now and then. In 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN)

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Yemen’s Great Divide

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     If there is a single nation on Earth today that is closest to the verge of collapse, it is Yemen. Since the splintered country’s grisly civil war first erupted seven years ago, more than 10,000 civilians have died, according to United Nations’ estimates (although Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates adamantly reject these figures). And, with

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