People clash with police during a protest against planned tax hikes.
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Kenya is not an isolated case. Twenty-one countries are receiving IMF support.
Sacred site of the Wixárika people in Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
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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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Backed by an overwhelming majority, Claudia Sheinbaum has a unique opportunity to advance gender equality in Mexico.
Asylum-seekers at the Rio Grande near the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Mexico, on May 11, 2023.
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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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After historic win, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum will face pressure to address her country’s gender violence.
Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president after landslide election victory.
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As Mexico elects its new president, gang violence continues to sprawl.
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What can Mexico expect from the former mayor of the capital after an historic election?
The future is (probably) female.
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Electoral violence has marred the run-up to the June 2 vote. But despite fears over personal safety, support for democracy endures.
The third and final debate of the three Mexican presidential candidates for the June 2 elections.
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Mexico will elect its first woman president on Sunday.
Harvesting avocados in Uruapan, in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
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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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Mexican elections have been marred by political violence for years, and this year will be no different.
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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.
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Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.
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Mexico is seeing a spate of public lynchings that show no sign of abating.
Ecuadorian security forces breaking into the Mexican embassy in the capital, Quito, on April 5 2024.
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The raid almost certainly broke international law, but Ecuador’s president is hoping his strongman tactics will resonate with the electorate.
Ecuadorian special forces break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
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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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When rightwing politicians talk of bringing back greatness, they are doing it for a reason.