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How a ‘Body Farm’ Might Help Tackle Fentanyl Abuse - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/americas/mexico-fentanyl-body-farm.html

How a ‘Body Farm’ Might Help Tackle Fentanyl Abuse
The U.S. government brought Mexican coroners to America to learn how to detect fatal overdoses, hoping to show that fentanyl kills in Mexico, too.

Armed attack on Zapatista coffee cooperative in Mexico
European and Mexican laws promote war in Chiapas
source (german written): https://w
https://girahh.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/03/armed-attack-on-zapatista-coffee-coope…

A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.
“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement…

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of the largest in the U.S. This comes days after the Republican governor gave a speech about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. The tribe's president also says he was “deeply offended” when Noem said a gang called the Ghost Dancers is murdering people on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is affiliated with border-cr…

"In the ongoing battle for genuine freedom of expression in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s relentless attacks on journalists and democratic institutions have reached alarming heights, posing a severe threat to press freedom and democracy in the country."
https://www.<…

Mexico: Obrador's attacks on freedom reach new heights - Index on Censorship
The Mexican president is attacking independent institutions and publicly shared a critical journalist's telephone number

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks (Trisha Ahmed/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/oglala-sioux-reservation-governor-ban-south-dakota-9f811bbd1ffaadf979e4353ad6e9…

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of the largest in the U.S. This comes days after the Republican governor gave a speech about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. The tribe's president also says he was “deeply offended” when Noem said a gang called the Ghost Dancers is murdering people on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is affiliated with border-cr…

🪅 Mexico is heading towards its most violent election ever, with 30 candidates murdered, 77 threatened and 11 kidnapped
https://english.elpais.com/internation

Mexico is heading towards its most violent election ever, with 30 candidates murdered, 77 threatened and 11 kidnapped
More than 170 attacks have been committed against politicians in the lead-up to the June elections. This violence has put campaigns under tension and is sowing doubts about governability in several regions. Specialists warn that the line between the Mexican state and organized crime is increasingly blurred

USA invaded many countries. Russia too. Difference is Russia invades allies.
Sometimes I see propaganda piece: imagine if Mexico would join Russian alliance.
I doubt USA would invade Mexico in this case (although possible, if they decide to leave any US agreements it would mean USA is already collapsing with some nazi leader)
Proper analogy tho would be: imagine France would leave NATO. Of course NATO would invade France. That’s totally normal!

Migrant border crossings dip in March, with U.S. officials crediting crackdown by Mexico (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-migrant-border-crossings-march-mexico/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240404/p32#a240404p32

South Dakota Tribe Bans Governor From Reservation Over US-Mexico Border Remarks
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-02-03/south-dakota-tribe-bans-governor-from-reservation-over-us-mexico-bo…

"Mexico election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change"
#Mexico #Climate #ClimateChange #Energy

Mexico election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change - Carbon Brief
Mexican citizens will go to the polls on 2 June 2024 to elect a new president, a new legislature and thousands of other local government officials.

Shit. It’s fucking cold out here. I coulda been in Cabo, but nnnooooo.
#DeepThoughtsOfSpringBirds #HashTagGames

Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its "Core" teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cut

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-generated-disinformation-might…

Mexican President Obrador reading aloud an NYT reporter's cellphone number during his widely broadcast morning presser shows perils of reporting in the country (Marina E. Franco/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/27/mexico-amlo-new-york-times-journalis…

Mexican president's dox of journalist shows perils of reporting in country
Mexico has long been one of the deadliest countries to be a journalist.

Here's the plot for my collapse fiction novel:
The USD collapses after a critical mass of countries dump dollar reserves in protest of brutal US proxy wars, and is replaced by the Chinese Yuan as the global reserve currency.
Rather than a grand civil war, the US fractures into a number of regional govts. Saudi Arabia takes over AZ and NM for alfalfa production. Mexico takes the southern halves of CA and TX. The rest of the country becomes cheap labor for Japanese and European…

That story seems convincing.
In 2009-2011 we covered a huge mayoral bribery trial. The mayor of a midsized southern city, Larry Langford, was convicted on $235,000 in bribes to grease bond deals, leading to a MASSIVE boondoggle: a $3.2 billion sewer debt, contributing to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
I thought, even then, $235K seemed light for a big town mayor.
So $600,000 in a years-long deal for a sitting congressman?
From: @…

The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Henry Cuellar, Texas Representative, and His Wife Indicted on Bribery Charges Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and from an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent. #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/politics/henry-cuellar-indictment.html?utm_source=press.coop

Drar runt Sverige på "True Size Of..." och inser att det är mycket längre från Mexico City till Tijuana än från Ystad till Haparanda. https://thetruesize.com

Compare Countries With This Simple Tool
Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

This morning I was scheduled to depart for Texas - a two-day trip by light aircraft. The weather forecast wasn't good - looked like two solid days of low overcast in the whole Los Angeles basin. So I hustled and got out last night, heading to the airport after SuperCam ops.
It worked! Palm Springs is just far enough east to avoid the mess. Now on to Arizona and New Mexico.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Mariachis De Mexico & Mariachi Oro Y Plata De Pepe Chavez:
🎵 Tenme un poco de paciencia
#MariachisDeMexico #MariachiOroYPlataDePepeChavez

"Exit Wounds" turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head,
looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence.
After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite…

Exit Wounds
Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects. American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence.

I dunno, Marty, wadda you wanna do?
#DeepThoughtsOfSpringBirds #HashTagGames

[UPI] - #MexicoCity #WaterCrisis nearing 'day zero'.
Mexico City, one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities, could be on the verge of running out of water, and prolonged drought and above-average temperatures are hastening the problem, Mexican authorities …

Mexico City water crisis nearing 'day zero' - UPI.com
Mexico City, one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities, could be on the verge of running out of water, and prolonged drought and above-average temperatures are hastening the problem.

BYD Dolphin Mini vanaf US$21.000 in Mexico. Dat wordt een slagveld voor Amerikaanse en Europese autofabrikanten. Met elke betaalbare elektrische auto niet verkocht gaan ze verder achterlopen in de leercurve op hun Chinese concurrenten. Hoe hard ze ook lobbyen tegen scherpere emissie-eisen of verbod op verkoop van verbrandingsmotoren
#ElektrischeAuto

USWNT’s loss to Mexico was a jarring reminder that the team’s mystique is gone
#uswnt

USWNT’s loss to Mexico was a jarring reminder that the team’s mystique is gone
The Gold Cup feels like a good place for the USWNT to experiment but they have failed to take the opportunity so far

New Mexico regulators approve El Paso Electric $11M EV plan, including low-income rebates
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry
Maya Steen (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy, Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University), J. J. Hermes (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Joseph A. Guidry (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Annabelle Paiva (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Jay Farihi (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London), Tyler M. Heintz (Department …

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry
White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique details about the endpoints of low-mass stellar evolution. In this study we characterize a sample of high-confidence white dwarfs with multi-epoch photometry from Gaia Data Release 3. We compare these Gaia light curves with light curves from the Zwicky Transiting …

Here's the plot for my collapse fiction novel:
The USD collapses after a critical mass of countries dump dollar reserves in protest of brutal US proxy wars, and is replaced by the Chinese Yuan as the global reserve currency.
Rather than a grand civil war, the US fractures into a number of regional govts. Saudi Arabia takes over AZ and NM for alfalfa production. Mexico takes the southern halves of CA and TX. The rest of the country becomes cheap labor for Japanese and European…

Well, pretty soon we hop into the car for an extended trip through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada (and, of course, our home state, California.) We will be taking the gasoline car because we will be in places where fast charging may be scarce.
We're heading to Texas for the total solar eclipse via the fast southern routes near the border with Mexico. But then we will be heading back a bit further north, probably via Santa Fe, Chama, Pagosa Springs (I like to so…

Sources: Dell, HP, and other US tech firms have asked their Taiwanese suppliers to boost production of AI-related hardware in Mexico to reduce reliance on China (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-tech-giants-turn-to-m…

Great - the people protecting users’ online safety have been outsourced
**Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico**
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core-workers-m…

Quintana Roo – Umweltschützer*innen “schließen” die Büros von Ministerium
#Mexico #NoAlTrenMaya #QuintanaRoo

Rhythm section rehearsal yesterday with my bandmates... 5hrs going over two separate sets of material we'll be performing in Mexico over the next two weeks. Clutch, as always, was #ForScore...
Wondered how the pages on my bass player's iPad were switching in time with the music...
HE WAS USING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS TO TURN THE PAGES
@…

FYI #Nashville, this is what 'authentic street tacos' look like. Tijuana, 1964

🚨🚨🚨 🚨 🚨 **Bird flu spreading through species: birds, cattle, humans** - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/02/bird-flu-spreading-through-species-birds-cattle-humans/

Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

We should improve our relations with Mexico by cultivating a soul full of self-control

Reconocemos el trabajo del Frayba y del Centro ProDH en favor de los derechos humanos en México
#RedTDT #DerechosHumanos #Mexico

Reconocemos el trabajo del Frayba y del Centro ProDH en favor de los derechos humanos en México
La Red TDT rechaza la criminalización realizada por el presidente AMLO en su mañanera para deslegitimar al Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas en Chiapas y al Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez en la Ciudad de México Las organizaciones de Derechos Humanos llevan más de 35 años de

Below find the list of the most visited cities in the world by international tourists:
1 Istanbul, Turkey: 20.2 million
2 London, United Kingdom: 18.8 million
3 Dubai, United Emirates: 19.8 million
4 Antalya, Turkey: 16.5 million
5 Paris, France: 15.5 million
6 Hong Kong: 14.7 million
7 Bangkok, Thailand: 12.2 million
8 New York, USA: 11.7 million
9 Cancun, Mexico: 10.8 million
10 Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 10.8 million
Source: Eurom…

This is the most visited city in the world! - Emma's Light
A new report from global market research company Euromonitor International has highlighted the world's most visited cities based on international arrivals. Paris and London may indeed have ham and double-decker buses, but Istanbul has more tourists: the cultural and economic capital of Turkey tops Euromonitor International's list of the 10 most visited cities internationally in 2023, in the index 100 most visited destinations. Subscribe to never miss an article from Ema's Light! Leave this fiel…

Joel Epstein's visit to Central America - Mexico to Panama
Well worth the read.
TL:DR even the poorest cities beat the US in transit service

Mexico City's Transit Trifecta
Lomas de la Estancia, seen from Cablebús Línea 2, Mexico City (CDMX). Over the past few months I have been to a lot of places. And most of that travel as it usually is, was by bus and train. In January I flew to Panamá for what started out as a week-long trip to interesting Panama City and the impressive Panama Canal. One of the world’s greatest public works projects with a fascinating history that marries political intrigue, diplomacy, finance, world trade, public health and naval might, …

Geliefd en bedreigd: een laatste poging om de Mexicaanse axolotl van uitsterven te redden - @… #KijkVerder

After #FBI investigation #TX #Congressman #HenryCuellar & his wife #indicted

Rep. Henry Cuellar accused of taking bribes from Azerbaijan, Mexican bank
The Democratic lawmaker from Texas denied all the charges. He was indicted Friday alongside his wife, Imelda Cuellar.

Rhythm section rehearsal yesterday with my bandmates... 5hrs going over two separate sets of material we'll be performing in Mexico over the next two weeks. Clutch, as always, was #ForScore...
Wondered how the pages on my bass player's iPad were switching in time with the music...
HE WAS USING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS TO TURN THE PAGES
@…

💣 Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-09/mexico-cartel-land-mines-weapons

Cartels turn to improvised landmines as violence escalates in Mexico
Soldiers and civilians have been killed in separate incidents in recent months involving 'narco mines' planted in western Mexico.

#MexicoCity could be only months from running out of #water: https://edition.cnn.com/2024…

The GOP-run Supreme Court may end up protecting Trump, but they aren't going out on as many limbs for the insurrectionists who weren't elected president.
"Two recent #SCOTUS actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in

Supreme Court opens new frontier for insurrection claims that could target state and local officials
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution. The Supreme Court recently said states could not use the 14th Amendment to remove candidates for federal office. But in a separate case this week, it rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of of…

Eclipse pictures! From Coahuila in Mexico. The best one was taken by my mother :3

Biden urges Trump to help him pass immigration deal as both visit US border
President implores Republicans to ‘show a little spine’ and support bipartisan border and security bill as Trump speaks at Eagle Pass
“It’s long past time to act,” Biden said in his remarks, challenging Trump to “join me” in calling on Congress to pass the “toughest, most efficient, most effective border security in this country has ever seen”.

Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...

"Er bat darum, dass er dort interviewt wird, wo er sich am wohlsten fühlt"
Heißt bei manchen: Auf einer Hauptstraße in Mexico City radelnd, während man sich am Auto des Fernsehteams festhält. Also wenn nicht gerade ein Schlagloch kommt, dem man per Bunny Hop ausweichen muss.
Finds ja schön, wenn sich Fernsehteams auf solche Sonderwünsche einlassen 🤪
Das komplette Video:

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her:
🎵 Down to Mexico
#SeagullScreamingKissHerKissHer
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ncNR7SAZIatcHwY1Uq33r

Vagabunda ger ut "Från sydöstra Mexicos underjordiska berg" av Subcomandante Marcos. Denna uppdaterade nyutgåva innehåller nya texter av Marcos och ett nyskrivet efterord om läget i konflikten inför presidentvalet i Mexico i juni 2024.
Mer info på länken nedan.
Boken ges ut samma vecka som det svenska kungaparet besöker Mexico och enligt landets president då väntas stiga ombord på det nya och av miljöskäl mycket omstridda “Mayatåget” eller Tren Maya.

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

Bird flu spreads to dairy cows in Idaho, Michigan and New Mexico
There's evidence the virus may be spreading cow-to-cow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/29/bird-flu-cows/

Bird flu spreads to dairy cows in Idaho, Michigan and New Mexico
Five states have been affected, with evidence the virus may be spreading cow-to-cow.

Really hard to believe #Japan is 9% vegetarian. I think I've met two Japanese vegetarians in the past two years.
Whereas, in Taiwan, I can meet that many vegetarians in a week.
Also, really Mexico at 16%? If so, wow
https://

Mark Stosberg (@markstos@urbanists.social)
Attached: 1 image These are the countries with more than 1 million vegetarians in 2024, according to World Population Review. #India #Mexico #Brazil #Taiwan #Isreal #Sweden #Vietnam #Germany #Japan #Italy #Poland #Canada #Chile #Ukraine #China #unitedStates #Philippines #Thailand #SouthKorea #Russia #vegetarian #vegan https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/vegetarianism-by-country

The end of #search as we know it:
"By the end of 2023, 48% of the most widely used news websites across 10 countries were blocking OpenAI’s crawlers. A smaller number, 24%, were blocking Google’s AI crawler.
The proportion of news websites that blocked OpenAI varied by country, ranging from 79% in the USA to just 20% in Mexico & Poland. For Google, the figures ranged from 60% in Ge…

Trump to use local police to drive mass deportations if elected
Trump, who visited the U.S.-Mexico border on the same day as President Biden Thursday, has vowed to launch the🔸 "largest deportation operation in American history" 🔸if he's elected president for a second term in November.
🔹"We have to deport a lot of people, and they have to start immediately," 🔹Trump said during his interview in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Fox News' "Hannity."
T…

Trump says he'll use local police for mass deportations if he's elected
"We have to deport a lot of people and they have to start immediately," Trump told Fox News' "Hannity."

Measurement of muon flux variations with scintillators in Mexico City and their correlation to solar activity
Diego Mart\'inez Montiel, Leonid Serkin, Guy Paic, Miguel Enrique Pati\~no Salazar, Jaime Octavio Guerra Pulido, Carlos Rafael V\'azquez Villamar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13978

Measurement of muon flux variations with scintillators in Mexico City and their correlation to solar activity
In this work we report the variations of the atmospheric muons flux in Mexico City. The measurements were performed from September to December 2023 at at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of UNAM, located at coordinates 19.32$^{\circ}$N 99.18$^{\circ}$W, with an altitude of 2274 meters above see level and a cutoff rigidity of 8.24 GV. The experimental setup consists of a pair of scintillators, with dimensions of 50cm x 1m. To compensate for fluctuations in air pressure, we calculate the baromet…

Mexico is dismantling the Dominican Republic.
#concacaf

Three reasons why so many migrants want to cross from Mexico to US - BBC
#immigration

Why are US-Mexico border crossings at record levels?
The influx has caused Joe Biden a massive political headache ahead of the presidential election.

#MexicoCity could be only months from running out of #water: https://edition.cnn.com/2024…

The GOP-run Supreme Court may end up protecting Trump, but they aren't going out on as many limbs for the insurrectionists who weren't elected president.
"Two recent #SCOTUS actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in

Supreme Court opens new frontier for insurrection claims that could target state and local officials
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution. The Supreme Court recently said states could not use the 14th Amendment to remove candidates for federal office. But in a separate case this week, it rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of of…

💰 How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/how-a-us-mining-firm-sued-mexico-for-billions-for-tryin…

LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women” - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/10/03/women-lgbtq-mexico-community-migrant-support

LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”
Discover insightful articles on LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”

Ex-employees of Mexico's shuttered state news agency, Notimex, launch the Mexican Association of Information, which will operate as a worker cooperative (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/mexi…

Mexican journalists launch a new outlet from the ashes of the country’s shuttered state news agency
Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had said last year that there no need for a state news agency since he conducts daily press briefings.

Shaping the nebula around the symbiotic system R Aquarii
E. Santamar\'ia, J. A. Toal\'a, T. Liimets, M. A. Guerrero, M. K. Botello, L. Sabin, G. Ramos-Larios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17710

Shaping the nebula around the symbiotic system R Aquarii
We present an analysis of high-dispersion spectroscopic observations of the symbiotic system R Aquarii (R Aqr) obtained with the Manchester Echelle Spectrograph (MES) at the 2.1 m telescope of the San Pedro Mártir Observatory (Mexico). An interpretation of these data is presented by means of the shape software to disclose the morpho-kinematics of the nebulosities associated with R Aqr. The best model that reproduces narrow-band images and position-velocity diagrams is composed by three structu…

Last year I read The Palestine Laboratory, about how Israel's military-industrial complex uses Palestinians as test subjects for technology it sells to repressive states around the world.
Here's a short excerpt from another book about this, specifically how Israeli companies use their experience with the West Bank wall to win contracts to militarize the US-Mexico border

Israel’s Occupation Inspired the Brutal Security Regime at the US-Mexico Border
Israeli officials and security companies have played a major role in shaping U.S. border enforcement.

"West Coast whale population recovers 5 years after hundreds washed up ashore"
#US #USA #America #Whales

West Coast whale population recovers 5 years after hundreds washed up ashore
Federal researchers indicate the gray whale population along the West Coast is showing signs of recovery five years after hundreds washed up dead on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington state and Alaska, as well as Canada and Mexico. The increase in population numbers comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association determined in November that the “unusual mortality event” that began in 2019 was over. The Seattle Times reports the federal agency has estimated the total n…

"Vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa infected three people with HIV, CDC finds - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vampire-facial-hiv-new-mexico-infection-cdc/

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mexican Institute of Sound:
🎵 Mexico
#MexicanInstituteofSound
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p4VHeroqCBJJL0RbCf8yx
https://mexicaninstituteofsound1.bandcamp.com/track/m-xico

🍨 In the Mexican city that once perfumed the world, a push to revive vanilla
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2024-02-05/la-fo-vanilla-mexico-papantla-identity-industry

A push to revive vanilla where it's from — Mexico
In Papantla, Mexico, once a major vanilla-producing city, the spice is still strongly tied to people's identity.

Mexico will not accept deportations made by Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to arrest migrants who cross into the state without authorization.
The ministry condemned the state law, known as Senate Bill 4, saying it would separate families, violate the human rights of migrants and generate “hostile environments” for the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin living in T…

Mexico Condemns Texas Law, and Says It Will Not Accept Deportations From the State
Mexico’s top diplomat for North America rejected the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying that immigration policy was something to be negotiated between federal governments.

Tinder plans to roll out its new ID checks in the US, the UK, Brazil, and Mexico, after tests in Australia and New Zealand, to combat AI scams and dating crimes (Antonia Mufarech/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tinder Dating App Expands ID Checks Amid Rise in AI Scams, Dating Crimes
Tinder is expanding its identity verification program at a time when artificial intelligence can make it hard to tell who’s real and crime is rising on dating apps.

Chinese migrants are the fastest growing group crossing from Mexico into U.S. at southern border (Sharyn Alfonsi/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-migrants-fastest-growing-group-us-mexico-border-60-minutes-tr…

🍨 In the Mexican city that once perfumed the world, a push to revive vanilla
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2024-02-05/la-fo-vanilla-mexico-papantla-identity-industry

A push to revive vanilla where it's from — Mexico
In Papantla, Mexico, once a major vanilla-producing city, the spice is still strongly tied to people's identity.

Oh the announced US v Mexico game as Redbull is at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Thursday? What a terrible time.
#uswnt

Fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities - BBC
#fentanyl

'People will keep dying': Fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities
More Mexicans are consuming the deadly drug, leading to a spike in overdoses.

Mexico overtakes China as the leading source of goods imported by US - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mexico-overtakes-china-leading-source-goods-imported-us-107034221

Mexico overtakes China as the leading source of goods imported by US
For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States

A joint report by CPJ and Amnesty International finds that Mexico's journalist protection program fails to adequately evaluate risks faced by journalists (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2024/03/cpj-amnesty-in

CPJ, Amnesty International report finds systemic flaws in Mexico’s journalist protections - Committee to Protect Journalists
A new joint report by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International found that Mexico’s Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists failed to adequately evaluate risks journalists are facing, implements at times ineffective protective measures and lacks specialized knowledge of challenges to press freedom in Mexico. For the report,...

The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years (Financial Times)
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A small New Mexico county on the Texas border may stand alone as the only place where the 14th amendment has been used in recent times to remove a government official from the ballot.
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner until 2022 in #Otero county, which has a population of around 69,000 people, became the first official in more than a century to be removed from office under the provision in the 14th a…

🚔 California man first in U.S. to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gases from Mexico
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-05/greenhouse-gases-smuggling-united-states-mexico-michael-hart

SoCal man first in U.S. to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gases
Michael Hart is the first person to be charged in the U.S. with smuggling potent greenhouse gases that are commonly used as refrigerants, federal prosecutors said.

What Biden's Critics Get Wrong About His Gaffes (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/biden-mexico-gaffe-real-lesson/677402/

New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds
New Mexico’s rivers, which include the Rio Grande, Gila, San Juan and Pecos, are America’s most threatened waterways, according to a new report.
This is largely due to a 2023 US supreme court decision that left more than 90% of the state’s surface waters without federal protections from industrial pollution, according to state officials.
“Virtually all the rivers in New Mexico are losing clean water prot…

What Biden's Critics Get Wrong About His Gaffes (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/biden-mexico-gaffe-real-lesson/677402/

#FBI foils plot by militiamen to 'start a war' at the Texas-Mexico border - Alternet.org
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FBI foils plot by militiamen to 'start a war' at the Texas-Mexico border
FBI agents disrupted a plot by three men – two of whom said they were part of a militia – to travel to the Texas-Mexico border to kill Border Patrol agents and immigrants crossing illegally because they believed the country was being invaded, according to court documents filed in federal courts.One ...

The border crisis factor no one talks about: #American #guns
One of the main reasons the border has drawn so many migrants and asylum seekers is 🔸the flow of guns from the U.S. into Mexico.🔸
This link between our guns and the people who seek safety at the border is particularly clear in Texas.
Gov. Greg…

The border crisis factor that no one talks about: U.S. guns
The majority of guns in Mexico come from America, supplying the organized crime groups whose violence and drug trafficking drives civilians to seek safety in the U.S.

Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.
Gomez, who lives in Mexico City’s Tlalpan district, doesn’t have a big storage tank so can’t get water truck deliveries — there’s simply nowhere to store it. Instead, he and his family eke out what they can buy and store
When they wash themselves, they capture th…

In several cases, the virus was detected in unpasteurized samples of milk collected from sick cows. Pasteurization should inactivate the flu virus, experts said, and officials stressed that the milk supply was safe.
Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cows - The New York Times
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Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cows
U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe.

Sanders sending Arkansas National Guard troops to US border with Mexico (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4544155-sanders-sending-arkansas-national-guard-troops-to-border/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240320/p29#a240320p29

Democratic U.S. House members are accusing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) of inciting #violence at the U.S.-Mexico border by using #bigoted language about a border "invasion" and encouraging a rightwing convoy to come to the region.
Around 200 vehicles carrying Trump supporters, Christian nationalists and

Convoy rally on Texas-Mexico border attracts Trump fans who decry illegal immigration
Trump 2024 flags flew alongside Christian flags as a throng of people converged on a rural Texas ranch to denounce the president and the people who have crossed into the United States from the nearby Rio Grande.

Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Police to Arrest Migrants - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/southern-border-migrants-arizona-mexico.html

Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Police to Arrest Migrants
The bill was passed by Republicans, and the veto came on the same day that the Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on a similar law in Texas.

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Viva Zapata!
Mexico, 1909. Een afvaardiging van indianen uit Moreles zijn naar Mexico-Stad gekomen om een audiëntie aan te vragen bij president Diaz. Ze willen zijn hulp inroepen nu gewapende grootgrondbezitters hun vruchtbaar land inpalmen, maar dictator Diaz weigert zich in het conflict te mengen.

With Mexico’s presidential election less than two months away, one thing is clear: The candidate for the governing party appears to be running away with it.
#Claudia #Sheinbaum, a physicist and protégée of the current president, holds a commanding lead of about 30 percentage points in the polls over the oppositio…

Claudia Sheinbaum Is Turning Mexico’s Presidential Election Into a Blowout
Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégée of Mexico’s current president, holds a commanding lead in the polls. But to many in Mexico, she is still an enigma.

US hospital treated 441 patients with severe injuries from border wall last year
Doctors at the University of California, San Diego’s trauma center (UCSD) have treated 455 patients with serious injuries sustained while trying to cross the US-Mexico border in 2023, a marked increase from the year before.
Ninety-seven per cent of the injuries, or 441 of them, occurred when people fell off the wall on the US side, said Alexander Tenorio, a resident neurosurgeon at UCSD who treats b…

Paxton accuses NGO operating in Texas of facilitating illegal immigration in new lawsuit | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4481270-paxton-accuses-ngo-texas-of-facilitating-illegal-immigration-…

Paxton accuses NGO operating in Texas of facilitating illegal immigration in new lawsuit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) accused a nongovernmental organization (NGO) of facilitating illegal immigration in a new lawsuit. Paxton announced Tuesday that his office had sued the Annunciation House — a Catholic NGO that operates “several houses of hospitality” for migrants and refugees in El Paso, Texas; and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. It describes itself as an “entry point” for many…

The birthplace of the atomic bomb is booming. Neighbors worry that could make them sick
Los Alamos is once again booming as the US modernizes its nuclear arsenal. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the only facility in the country currently producing plutonium cores of nuclear weapons, aim to ramp up production from zero to 30 pits per year over the next two years.
The lab has hired some 4,000 new employees in the last two years, bringing the staff population u…

On Saturday, a far-right convoy calling itself
“🔸God’s army🔸” is set to host rallies at different border towns along the US-Mexico border to decry what they call a migrant “invasion.”
Throughout the week, the group’s organizers made their way from Virginia Beach to Jacksonville, Florida, before splitting into three groups heading to rallies in #Yuma, Arizona,

A far-right convoy is holding anti-immigrant rallies at the border
One organizer called it a “spiritual battle.”