Mexico News Today Friday, May 14, 2021

 

FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2021

Another candidate killed in second most violent election season since 2000 The Cajeme, Sonora, mayoral candidate Abel Murrietta Gutiérrez was killed on Thursday in the municipality while campaigning. FULL STORY

Militarization: a lost war that has only brought ‘catastrophic’ results A United States' advocacy group's new report says that Mexico's reliance on the military for civilian tasks, including fighting criminals, 'raises red flags.' FULL STORY

Quintana Roo on cusp of going red on Covid stoplight map Governor Carlos Joaquín warned that the state has seen an increase in Covid-19 cases and could be heading toward another lockdown. FULL STORY Video catches Puebla nurse giving fake Covid shot The health worker has been suspended after she failed to correctly administer the vaccine to a woman whose daughter recorded the damning incident on her phone. FULL STORY New species of dinosaur identified in Coahuila Paleontologists have identified a never-before-seen ancient reptile after unearthing its 72-million-year-old remains eight years ago. FULL STORY As many as 40 cyclones forecast for this season Up to seven of the Atlantic and Pacific storms could end up making landfall. FULL STORY Yucatán announces 1.5bn pesos in tourism, real estate projects  17 companies plan to invest in the developments, which are slated for the eastern part of the state. FULL STORY Travelers get a wet welcome at Mexico City airport Rainfall is a cause for alarm at the country’s biggest air hub due to leaks in the roof. FULL STORY Academic detectives track down stolen papers that once belonged to Hernán Cortés The scholars in Mexico and Spain helped stop a New York auction house's scheduled sale of a 1521 letter to the conquistador that was pilfered from Mexico's national archives. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Meeting the Tarahumara inspired book on ‘weird’ history of exercise Daniel Lieberman's encounter with a Copper Canyon indigenous group inspired him to research the history of our modern interest in physical fitness, Rich Tenorio writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE The biggest downside to making a TV show about crocodiles: the smell All that stood between Bodie Kellogg's dream of filming reality TV show episodes about capturing crocs was 140 miles of Sinaloa roadway. What could go wrong? FULL STORY Mexico fires back on GM union complaint A United States request to investigate a worker vote at a General Motors plant in Guanajuato prompted the Mexican government to suggest that the U.S do a better job protecting the workplace rights of Mexican migrants. FULL STORY Tenochtitlán event is manipulation of history for political ends: archaeologist The government played fast and loose with historical fact for political gain by commemorating Tenochtitlan’s foundation in the wrong year, say academics. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT Analysis highlights risks of building home developments on hills of Chapala It details the risk of landslides and documents the history of damage caused by building in the hills over the past 50 years. FULL STORY New Pizza Hut in Guadalajara is location No. 1000 in Mexico Pizza Hut is to open its latest site in Mexico in the same city where the chain was introduced 52 years ago. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Guadalajara residents stop waiting and clean a toxic river with eggshells Fed up with government inaction on Jalisco's contaminated Santiago River, locals are trying a cleanup plan so simple, it just might work, John Pint writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Durango artist gives back culturally to the city he escaped to as a child After a deadly neighbor dispute, Trinidad Núñez Quiñones' family fled to the city. The chance arrival there changed his life, Leigh Thelmadatter writes in Artisan Spotlight. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Javier Senosiain's ‘organic architecture:’ curvatures in space and time Architect Javier Senosiain is the nation's leading proponent of the architectural style popularized in the United States by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Jude Webber writes. FULL STORY