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News Articles: Mexico

Police attempt to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024, following Mexico's granting of asylum to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought refuge there.

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  • Latin America

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court over storming of the Mexican Embassy

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court Tuesday, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters upon her arrival to her opening campaign rally at the Zócalo plaza in Mexico City, on March 1.

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  • World

Mexico's leading presidential candidate is stopped by masked men at checkpoint

In Mexico, a group of masked people in the state of Chiapas stopped presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum at a checkpoint. The incident comes amid a spate of political assassinations.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
Although matzo sold in supermarkets is typically square, the round matzo is believed to be the earliest form of this unleavened bread that is eaten during the Passover holiday as a symbol of both suffering and freedom.

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  • World

Matzo — the Passover bread of affliction and freedom — is a timely symbol in 2024

Bread — and the lack thereof — plays a role in many corners of the world facing a crisis, from Israel and Gaza to Ukraine to Afghanistan to Sudan.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Marc Silver,
  • Pierre Kattar,
  • and 2 more
President Biden speaks during a campaign event in Scranton, Penn, on April 16 during the first of three days in the battleground state.

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  • Politics

Biden tells Pittsburgh steelworkers he wants to hike tariffs on Chinese steel

The White House says China uses subsidies and government programs to undercut U.S. steel. President Biden wants to hike tariffs on the imports and take other new steps to curb imports.

April 17, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
People stand outside the Venezuelan embassy in Quito, Ecuador, on Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

Venezuela orders the closure of its embassy in Ecuador

Venezuela's president ordered the closure of his country's embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

April 17, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
Migrants wait between border walls separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, to apply for asylum with U.S. authorities on Friday.

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  • National

U.S. border arrests decline amid increased enforcement in Mexico

Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico.

April 13, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A woman puts on special glasses to see the eclipse on Monday in Mazatlán, Mexico. Many people have flocked to the seaside area to catch a glimpse of the total solar eclipse.

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  • Latin America

Mexico's beach party is excited to see the eclipse first emerge

The Mexican city of Mazatlán is the first place the total solar eclipse will be visible as it emerges over the Pacific Ocean today, and the weather here is perfect.

April 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jorge Valencia
Police break into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Mexico's president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador

The announcement came after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, detaining former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was seeking political asylum there.

April 06, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Azzam, 12, hugs a sheep, the only source of his family's livelihood in rural Damascus on Feb 21, 2022. Azzam and his family have experienced firsthand the harrowing impact of the conflict. In 2015, when Azzam was five years old, a shell fell on the building where he was sitting with his family.

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  • News

Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us

For International Day of Happiness, photographers sent us pictures of a Syrian boy who finds joy caring for farm animals, Ukrainian girls on a trampoline, music lovers grooving to the blues and more.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Laurel Dalrymple
Spectators wait for the start of a bullfight at the Plaza México, in Mexico City, Jan. 28. Bullfighting returned to Mexico City after the Supreme Court of Justice overturned a 2022 ban that prevented these events from taking place in the capital.

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  • Latin America

Mexico's female matadors return to the world's largest bullring

A glimpse at the world of women bullfighters in Mexico City, as the spectacle makes its return two years after a judge banned it — generating excitement from fans and criticism over animal cruelty.

March 09, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Green
Sandra Martínez Martínez shows the dirty tap water she and her family are using as toilet water at her home in the municipality of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico, on Sunday.

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  • Latin America

Mexico City's long-running water problems are getting even worse

Reservoirs that furnish a large part of the Mexican capital have fallen to historic lows, as low rainfall, climate change and mismanagement exacerbate the problem.

March 08, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Green
A view of the destruction caused by demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, during a protest over the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teaching training school in 2014. The group of demonstrators knocked down one of the doors of building with a pickup truck.

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  • Latin America

Protesters ram a truck into Mexico's presidential palace over missing students

Protesters broke down the door of Mexico's presidential palace with a truck on Wednesday, demanding answers for 43 college students who went missing a decade ago.

March 06, 2024
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
Mexican health authorities suspended operation at this medical clinic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas after reports that a number of cosmetic surgery patients were exposed to a potentially deadly fungal meningitis. Twelve patients with probable or confirmed cases died.

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  • Global Health

They came to clinics in Mexico for cosmetic surgery and got a deadly fungal meningitis

The risks of medical tourism are depicted in a study of U.S patients who traveled to two clinics for procedures like tummy tucks and butt lifts — and were exposed to a virulent fungal meningitis.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
People take parte in a march organized by citizen organizations demanding that electoral autonomy be respected in the upcoming general elections in downtown Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Thousands rail against Mexico's president and ruling party in 'march for democracy'

Thousands of demonstrators cloaked in pink marched through cities in Mexico and abroad on Sunday in what they called a "march for democracy" targeting the country's ruling party.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
<em>Tótem</em> chronicles one afternoon for Sol (Naíma Sentíes) a young girl about to undergo a massive loss. It was written and directed by Lila Avilés.

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  • Arts & Life

A birthday party for a dying father chronicles childhood before loss in 'Tótem'

Director Lila Avilés' film is a celebration of family and spirituality in contemporary Mexican society. And it's a beacon of how women filmmakers are becoming the new face of Mexican cinema.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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