Thousands of dead fish have blanketed the surface of a lagoon in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, and local officials are blaming an intense drought....
Remember also that #Texas was a de facto independent republic from 1836 to 1845. They immediately sought annexation by the #UnitedStates but faced complications due to the slavery debate and potential war with #Mexico.
Instead, the Republic of Texas was recognized by the US, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the UK.
American political winds shifted in 1843, Texas got its statehood (without an intervening territorial phase), and the US got its Mexican war.
A person with prior health complications who had contracted #birdflu (H5N2) died in Mexico in April and the source of exposure to the virus was unknown, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO said the current risk of bird flu virus to the general population is low.
WHO confirms first fatal human case of bird flu A(H5N2)
"This was the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of bird flu reported globally and the first H5 virus infection in a person reported in Mexico."
"The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals, WHO said."
M4.6 earthquake in Baja, California (along the San Andreas Fault). Despite the gray line there and a few fences/walls, the earthquake got over the border #earthquake#Mexico#Baja#SanDiego
😢 « Gunmen have killed the female #mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation's first woman president.
Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of #Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021. She was the first woman to be elected to the post.
Widespread violence against politicians has overshadowed #Mexico's general election, which saw two women run for the presidency. »
Fucking spare me with all the pearl-clutching from the foreign policy “adults” about democratic backsliding in #Mexico because leftists won two elections in a row.
"The fundamental paradox of Mexican society is this: The presidency is too strong; the state is too weak. López Obrador aggrandized the presidency still more and thus weakened the state even more. Now this powerful presidency will be occupied by a protégée beholden to a predecessor who aspires to control everything from behind the scenes."
The measure, which needs a majority to pass, is called the Secure the #Border Act. Along w/the #policing provisions, it’d also increase #prison sentences for anyone who sells #fentanyl* that results in an #overdose death, & would make it a #state#crime for #undocumented workers to provide false info to the #EVerify screening system.
Debris from homes destroyed by rising sea levels and coastal erosion associated with climate change is seen through a hole in a wall. Some homes have already been submerged, but the walls of others still stand out as proof that there used to be a fishing village where some 700 people lived.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history.
The governing party candidate won Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday, a turning point in a mostly conservative nation that for more than two centuries has been exclusively ruled by men.
Elsewhere in Latin America, women have led countries including Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti and Costa Rica. #AureFreePress#News#press#Mexico
Hand-picked by populist #AMLO, many in MX think #Sheinbaum will govern like the him. Pragmatist who put in place a 1st class vaccine strategy during Covid, or: ideologue who followed AMLO’s ambivalent policies -led to 100K dead in MX City? One who understands the importance of data & planning or one who spends little on subway maintenance & lots on$ handouts for sht-term el. boost -seems closer to his half-hearted conservatism in favoring militarization. She must prove... https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/two-issues-that-will-reveal-the-real-claudia-sheinbaum/
Claudia Sheinbaum is loyal to AMLO, & he has weakened judicial independence & democracy, selectively deployed violence while there have been an estimated >30K homicides each year under his rule, Mexico is under attack from "criminal insurgency...
Mexico has its first woman president. But her big win may be a bigger danger to democracy & security.
Mass fish death in Mexico's Chihuahua State blamed on severe drought (www.reuters.com)
Thousands of dead fish have blanketed the surface of a lagoon in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, and local officials are blaming an intense drought....