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Sanitization process in San Cristóbal de Las Casas © Noé Pineda Arredondo
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LATEST: Mexico continues to rise in the ranking of the countries most affected by COVID-19

In recent weeks, Mexico became one of the countries with the most cases of COVID-19 worldwide with at least more than half a million cases of contagion (sixth place) and, by mid-August, one of those with the highest mortality rates (third place), with more than 50 thousand dead.
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Sanitization process in San Cristóbal de Las Casas © Noé Pineda Arredondo
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LATEST: Mexico – The risk of invisibility and aggravation of multiple pending human rights issues in the context of the pandemic

In April, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presented his fifth quarterly report. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, he reported that this year there will be 22 million beneficiaries of the different social programs and that in nine months two million new jobs will be created, among others by the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program.
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ARTICLE: Civil Observation Mission in the Isthmus: Amplifying and connecting voices

With megaprojects such as the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, which will connect the ports of Salina Cruz (Oaxaca) and Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz), 47 thousand hectares already concessioned for mining, 28 wind farms and its great biodiversity, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an area of priority for the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
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Rail lines in Palenque Chiapas today © SIPAZ
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FOCUS: Mayan Train

In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".
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Chiapas, Southern Border © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Mexico “happy, happy, happy”?

September marked three months since the governments of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and Donald Trump reached an agreement in which Mexico undertook measures to lower the level of migration that crosses its territory to reach the United States.
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Community reconstruction on the Coast © SweFOR
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ARTICLE: Earthquakes – Community Reconstruction as an Alternative Route

The night of September 7, 2017 represents a traumatic moment in the lives of tens of thousands of people, when a magnitude 8.2 earthquake shook the coastal areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, leaving 102 people dead, thousands homeless, and the region in chaos.
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