Cancún is one destination for American women seeking an abortion. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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In Mexico, more states are legalizing abortion at the same time US states like Florida are imposing more restrictions.
The Maya used mirrors as channels for supernatural communication. In this image, a supernatural creature speaks into a cracked, black mirror.
K2929 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.
Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.
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Mexico is seeing a spate of public lynchings that show no sign of abating.
Ecuadorian security forces breaking into the Mexican embassy in the capital, Quito, on April 5 2024.
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The raid almost certainly broke international law, but Ecuador’s president is hoping his strongman tactics will resonate with the electorate.
Ecuadorian special forces break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
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The bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus and storming of Mexico’s embassy in Quito breaks with accepted diplomatic norms − and could spell trouble.
Republican US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene dons her signed ‘make America great again’ hat.
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When rightwing politicians talk of bringing back greatness, they are doing it for a reason.
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The eclipse will allow scientists to get rare measurements of the Sun’s atmosphere.
Donald Trump hugs and kisses the American flag as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., in February 2024.
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A second Donald Trump presidency would not necessarily implement a foreign policy any more destructive than what is normal for the United States.
Presidents Xi and Biden sit down for dinner at a meeting in November 2023. China was hoping to carve out some trade concessions.
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Canada and Mexico have replaced China as the US’s largest trading partners, due to friend-shoring policies.
Many Mexican immigrants stay connected to communities in their country of origin.
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Mexican groups are the most common, but immigrants from Turkey, Bolivia and many more countries have formed their own.
Susanne Augustesen of Denmark takes a shot during the final of the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico City.
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Thousands of fans packed out stadiums for the 1971 women’s World Cup, but it has been virtually erased from history.
A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021.
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Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
A sign in Laredo, Texas, reminds motorists not to smuggle guns into Mexico.
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Mexico claims that US firearm manufacturers are fueling illegal cross-border gun trafficking and violent crime abroad.
Abelisaurs. Art by Andrey Atuchin.
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Fossils suggest that as many as three abelisaurid species coexisted in Morocco around 66 million years ago.
A ceremony to punish people for heresy, called an ‘auto da fe,’ in the town of San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico.
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Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
Ecuador looks set to entrust its anti-gang fight to the military.
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Widespread violence tied to Ecuadorian drug gangs has left the country looking at a draconian response.
Catarina was revered in Puebla, Mexico – but devotion to her attracted Catholic authorities’ disapproval after her death.
Image from the collections of the Biblioteca Nacional de España
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
Joel Roberts Poinsett is given credit for bringing the popular red and green plant to the U.S.
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Much like the history of the US, Joel Roberts Poinsett, after whom the poinsettia is named, had a complicated and troubling history.
Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose H. Gomez stands with people celebrating the Virgin of Guadalupe’s feast day in 2022.
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The famous apparition of the Virgin Mary has come to symbolize Mexico, but other groups – particularly migrants and Latinos north of the border – also feel a special connection to Guadalupe.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite to become Mexico’s first female president.
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Women represent half of Mexico’s Congress and hold key positions in politics and the judiciary. But the country is still dogged by high rates of femicide.