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....
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.
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.
4 years ago...Protegiendo el humedal de Xochimilco: la Ciudad de #México sigue urbanizándose sobre un lago | openDemocracy
"Poco después de que se interpuso el amparo, la Jefa de Gobierno #ClaudiaSheinbaum salió en defensa del puente vehicular, ya que según ella éste podría reducir considerablemente el tráfico de la zona, especialmente de las alcaldías de Tláhuac e Iztapalapa, esta última la más poblada de la ciudad con casi dos millones de habitantes. En marzo, Sheinbaum ya había anunciado que la zona ya no era Área Natural Protegida, contradiciendo a los planos de uso de suelo de la ciudad.
La Jefa de Gobierno anunció una inversión de 100 millones de pesos en el Parque Ecológico Xochimilco, ahora en el abandono, y otra de 200 millones para la zona de los canales y chinampas."
San Gregorio Atlapulco, junto con más de una decena de pueblos originarios de Xochimilco, está llevando a cabo desde hace más de dos años su propia batalla legal para decidir sobre sus propias formas de organización política.
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....