Tuesday, July 2, 2024

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A stretch of the Mexico-US border wall in the desert

Illegal Mexico-US border crossings hit three-year low after Biden’s executive order

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Migrant apprehensions were down nearly 30% between May and June.
Claudia Sheinbaum, AMLO and Mara Lezama sit in a car of the Maya Train.

What’s next for the Maya Train? President-elect Sheinbaum plans for the...

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President-elect Sheinbaum will consider whether to add another section to the Maya Train, which is now scheduled to be fully open by mid-September.
Xin Xin, Chapultepec Zoo's beloved giant panda, turns 34 today

Chapultepec Zoo celebrates 34th birthday of Xin Xin, the giant panda

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Xin Xin is the Chapultepec Zoo's last remaining giant panda and one of the oldest of her kind.
The Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila

Additional remains recovered 18 years after tragedy at Pasta de Conchos mine

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Grupo México had been operating the mine under suboptimal safety conditions when a methane explosion took 65 miners' lives in 2006.
Two women and a child walk toward INM agents in Mexico

63 migrants detained at military checkpoint near Ciudad Juárez

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The migrants had been traveling in hot and overcrowded conditions in the bed of a cargo truck.
Tropical Storm Chris made landfall in the municipality of Vega de Alatorre, Veracruz, at midnight on Monday.

Tropical Storm Chris makes landfall in Veracruz, bringing heavy rain to Eastern Mexico

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"Chris" was downgraded to a tropical depression shortly after making landfall and is currently moving westward over mainland Mexico.
An industrial corn field, possibly cultivating Monsanto's GMO corn.

After a 4-year legal battle, Monsanto drops lawsuit against Mexico’s GM corn ban

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Monsanto won a favorable judgement in 2022, but eventually gave up after the Environment Ministry appealed the case.

CDMX launches affordable housing program offering rentals for as low as 2,500 pesos

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The program, which targets students or young professionals between 18 and 29 years old, is expected to launch within the year.
Family walking toward a marina in the Miguel Aleman reservoir in Mexico state. The lake bed they are walking on is cracked mud with no water.

Mexico City survived ‘Day Zero’ but reservoirs are still low, despite heavy rainfall

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Tropical Storm Alberto didn't replenish Mexico City's reservoirs as much as was hoped, and so the Cutzamala water system is still struggling.
weather map of the Yucatan Peninsula showing two weather systems approaching land. One is labeled with a 30% chance of becoming a named storm in the next week, while the other is labeled at 80%

‘Historic’ rains have drenched Yucatán peninsula as new Atlantic storm forms

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Already battered by heavy rains, Cancún and the rest of the Yucatán Peninsula are bracing for a possible tropical storm early next week.
Two horses being guided by ropes attached to a powerboat that is helping them navigate the waters in the Cerro Prieto Dam in Linares, Nuevo Leon.

Over 40 stranded horses rescued from Nuevo León dam

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The horses were stranded on an islet in the Nuevo Leon dam after Tropical Storm Alberto caused waters to rise rapidly around them.