Mexico

Cancun, Mexico, Apr 4 (EFE).- Gunmen attacked a luxury car rental business in the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancun, Quintana Roo state officials said, adding that no deaths or injuries were reported. Planeta Car Cancun “was apparently set on fire intentionally” overnight Wednesday, Quintana Roo Public Safety Secretary Alberto Capella said in a Twitter …

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Mexico City, Apr 1 (EFE).– The streets of Downtown Mexico City are never silent during the daylight hours thanks to the nostalgic melodies played by organ grinders, whose presence in the capital seems to be anchored to the past. Their pervasive and strident music blends in with the mixture of sounds that is everywhere in …

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Mexico City, Apr 2 (EFE).– The Mexican government unveiled a plan on Tuesday to renovate the Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City’s largest public park, turning it into an enormous space for cultural activities. “We’re talking about 800 hectares (1,975 acres). It’s going to be the biggest and most important cultural space in the world,” President …

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Mexico City, Apr 1 (EFE).- “They don’t have to kill us to deter us,” said Yohali Resendiz, a Mexican journalist who – despite being protected by the state – lives in fear when she sees that protection protocols are usually implemented only after it’s too late. There are currently 498 human rights defenders and 292 …

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Mexico City, Apr 1 (EFE).- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met privately here Monday with visiting members of the US House of Representatives, his office said. Accompanying the president was Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and his department’s top officials for relations with the US, as well as Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Martha …

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