A historian of astronomy writes about the role of astronomical events in Indigenous cultures − and also the exploitation of their sacred traditions in present times.
Claudia Sheinbaum at a presidential campaign rally in Mexico City in May 2024.
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When a COVID-19-era policy was set to expire in May 2023, Republican officials predicted that the US-Mexico border would be overrun with migrants. That didn’t happen.
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates historic win.
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Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
It will soon cost a bit more to buy a gun in California.
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The US homicide rate is far above the rate of other nations.
Mexican police at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where scores of people died in a prison fire and riot in 2016.
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Many young Mexican men that are working in precarious conditions are drawn into the fold of drug cartels.
The funeral of Bertha Gisela Gaytan, a mayoral candidate for the municipality of Celaya, Mexico, who was shot dead after her first campaign rally on April 1 2024.
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Nearly all countries in the region have criminalised either femicide or feminicide, which has had a tremendous impact on society.
Cancún is one destination for American women seeking an abortion. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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In Mexico, more states are legalizing abortion at the same time US states like Florida are imposing more restrictions.
The Maya used mirrors as channels for supernatural communication. In this image, a supernatural creature speaks into a cracked, black mirror.
K2929 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.
The bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus and storming of Mexico’s embassy in Quito breaks with accepted diplomatic norms − and could spell trouble.
Republican US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene dons her signed ‘make America great again’ hat.
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