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☆ A Mexico City Design Landmark, Reborn as Something Else
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Ray Mark Rinaldi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The current exhibition, “Desert Flood,” co-curated by Jérôme Sans and Mr. Riestra and running through July 31, is a good example. Another gallery space features “We Are All in the Same Boat,” from the Danish art cooperative Superflex. Viewers walk all around the illuminated words, with many of them seizing the opportunity to bask in its moody lighting and snap selfies. It consists of a series of 35 neon sculptures, hung from the ceiling, and casting purplish-red hues on the walls, floor and ceiling. Spaces meld together as artworks flow up and down staircases, blend into the cafe area and push outward through the main lobby.

Persons: ”, Jérôme Sans, “, Claudia Comte, Gabriel Rico Locations: Swiss, Veracruz, Guadalajara

☆ Was mass hysteria behind the mysterious case of 227 middle school students fainting last fall?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Lillian Perlmutter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

On September 23, 2022, 12-year-old Esmeralda walked out of the girls' bathroom at her middle school in Tapachula, Mexico, and fainted. Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador began including regular updates on the government's investigation into the fainting episodes in his daily press conferences. Dr. Carlos Alberto Pantoja Meléndez, one of Mexico's few field epidemiologists, had taken an interest in the fainting episodes. News of the initial fainting episodes had been shared there, the epidemiologist, who asked to remain anonymous, told Pantoja-Melendez. Both believe that the fainting episodes in Mexico were examples of something new and alarming: mass hysteria spreading online.

Persons: Esmeralda, Diala, Gladys, Esmeralda's, convulsing, Esmeralda Eva Alicia Lépiz, —, Esmerelda, Mami, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, Gladys didn't, Bochil, Luis Villagrán, bristled, Susanna, Tapachula, Diala's, José Eduardo Morales Montes, they'd, Eva Alicia Lépiz, Hidalgo —, I've, Carlos Alberto Pantoja Meléndez, Pantoja Meléndez, Meléndez, Robert Bartholomew, Bartholomew, Lopez Obrador, busily, Simon Wessley, schoolgirls, twitching, we'll, Pantoja, Melendez, Bartholomew said, we're, We've, who's Organizations: Federal, Central America, Journalists, Mexico City —, Mexico City, Universidad Autónoma Nacional, University of Auckland, Roswell, Kings College, New York, Health Department, Pantoja Locations: Tapachula, Mexico, Bochil, Mexican, Chiapas, Mexico City, El Pais, Chiapas —, Central, Esmeralda, Mexico City — Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, México, University of Auckland , New Zealand, Veracruz, London, Southern Mexico, Kanshasa, Tanzania, Blackburn , England, Sweden, Pyuthan, Nepal, Leroy , New York, Tapachula .

☆ Grupo Mexico says negotiations with government more difficult after railway expropriation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX) said on Sunday its negotiations with the government are facing difficulties after the Mexican Navy took over part of a railway in southern Mexico operated by a unit of the company last week. Grupo Mexico Transportes (GMXT.MX) said negotiations with authorities about the railway concession spanning from Coatzacoalcos to Medias Waters in the western Veracruz state would continue. The move sent shares in the mining and infrastructure company tumbling more than 4% after the expropriation on Friday. Last week Mexico's Supreme Court struck down a government order declaring key infrastructure projects as matters of national security. Reporting and writing by Sarah Kinosian in Mexico City; Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

MEXICO CITY, May 8 (Reuters) - The Mexican government on Monday set out fresh details of a plan to attract businesses to a corridor straddling a narrow isthmus of southern Mexico, part of a larger push to pump investment into the relatively poor region. The plan, called the Inter-Oceanic Corridor, will include 10 new industrial parks along the stretch connecting the Pacific port of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca state with the Gulf coast hub of Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz state, officials said. Officials also hinted at plans to construct four wind plants across the area, home to major installations of state-run oil company Pemex. Another reason to push manufacturing to the south is that the north - which benefits from its proximity with the United States - is facing a drought, officials say. Reporting by Kylie Madry; Writing by Brendan O'Boyle; Editing by David Alire GarciaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Mexican officials roll out investment plans for southern corridor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Officials announced details for 10 industrial parks along the corridor connecting the Pacific port of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca state with the Gulf coast hub of Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz state. Four of the parks will be located in Veracruz and six in Oaxaca, officials said during an event touting the potential of the Interoceanic Corridor development plan. Lopez Obrador has repeatedly argued that southern states like Oaxaca are prime for investment versus the country's more industrial north. He has also touted southern Mexico's more ample water resources. The minister added that the Interoceanic Corridor project will be presented to companies from the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Germany, among others.

☆ Eva Longoria shares 5 essential Mexico experiences
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Marnie Hunter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Editor’s Note: CNN Original Series “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico” airs on CNN Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Here are just five of the essential experiences Longoria recommends to Mexico visitors. “There are so many indigenous cultures still vibrant in Mexico,” Longoria said. El Tajín “is one of the best-preserved pre-Hispanic cities in Mexico,” Longoria says in the Veracruz episode. With a conchaActress reveals daily ritual when she's in Mexico City 00:40 - Source: Eva Longoria: Searching for MexicoExploring requires stamina – and maybe a little sugar and caffeine.

☆ Veracruz state: Home of the flying Voladores, Mexico's top coffee and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Tim Leffel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Voladores of Veracruz in Mexico have a history that goes back at least 1,400 years. “The flying ritual has never had a learning age, it is a project of a lifetime,” he says. Nearly all of the Voladores train in or around Papantla, where the flying schools prepare young people to take over for those who are eventually aging out. Coffee, ancient ruins and an overlooked capital cityMen with ankle ropes flying deftly around a pole are not the only export from this state, though. The big draw, however, is Mexico’s second most important archaeological museum after the one in Mexico City.

☆ 103 unaccompanied minors found in abandoned trailer in Mexico, govt says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MEXICO CITY, March 6 (Reuters) - Mexican authorities found 103 unaccompanied minors mostly from Guatemala inside an abandoned truck trailer in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the government said on Monday, in one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico. In addition to the 103 children, authorities found 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador in the trailer, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement. Another 28 migrants traveling as families from Guatemala and El Salvador were also in the trailer, bringing the total number of passengers to 343. It was outfitted with fans, a partially ventilated roof and a structure that created a second level inside the trailer. Earlier this year, Mexican authorities found 57 unaccompanied minors from Guatemala at a checkpoint near the U.S.-Mexico border, and 20 other unaccompanied minors in a group of mostly Central Americans in the southern state of Chiapas.

☆ Exclusive: Mexico's Pemex increased gas flaring at top field, despite pledge to stop
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/3] Gas flare is seen at the state energy company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Papan plant, in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz state, Mexico February 18, 2023. The pledge to stop burning gas at the Ixachi field came after months of pressure over flaring from the hydrocarbon regulator, environmentalists and Mexico’s most important trade partner, the United States. But Pemex has repeatedly missed gas production targets, blaming it on missing infrastructure. Two senior company sources told Reuters last November Pemex would rather pay fines than deal with gas flaring problems. Pemex's updated business plan for 2023 to 2027, released in December, reiterated promises to reduce emissions but focused more on oil and gas production as well as refining.

☆ Pemex hit by fires at three facilities in one day
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Emergency services work as smoke rises following a pipeline explosion at the facilities of state-owned oil company Pemex, according to local authorities, in Ixhuatlan del Sureste, Veracruz state, Mexico, February 23, 2023 in this still image taken from video obtained from social media. Samy Rodriguez/Perfil Regional/via REUTERSCompanies Petroleos Mexicanos FollowMEXICO CITY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Three fires broke out on Thursday at different facilities in Mexico and the United States operated by state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex, leaving five missing and eight others injured as of Thursday evening. Pemex confirmed in a later statement on Thursday evening that a separate fire at its Minatitlan refinery, also in Veracruz, was under control after injuring five people. A third fire was also reported Thursday by a community alert at a unit at Pemex's Deer Park, Texas, oil refinery. Earlier this week, at least two people died after a vehicle collision inside a Pemex refinery in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, according to local media reports.

☆ Pemex Deer Park, Texas, small crude unit shut after fire -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Erwin Seba | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 24 (Reuters) - The small crude distillation unit (CDU) at Pemex's (PEMX.UL) 312,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park, Texas, refinery was shut following a Thursday night fire, said people familiar with plant operations on Friday. A fire broke out on the 70,000-bpd CDU-1 on Thursday night, the sources said. A Pemex spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment about operations at the Deer Park refinery. The Deer Park fire was one of three to strike Pemex facilities in Mexico and the United States on Thursday. CDUs break down crude oil into feedstocks for all other units at the refinery.

☆ Tesla can't build in northern Mexico if water is scarce, president says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MEXICO CITY, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc. would be denied permits to build a plant in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, where it has eyed investing, if water is scarce, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday. Lopez Obrador called out arid Nuevo Leon for its water scarcity earlier this week, instead touting the benefits of Mexico's poorer southern region where he has sought to increase development. In 2020, he said he would withhold permits for a Constellation Brands (STZ.N) brewery in the northern state of Baja California after criticizing the project for consuming too much water in a dry zone. On Friday, the leftist leader praised Constellation for choosing to relocate to a state in southeastern Mexico. "They understood very well," Lopez Obrador said.

☆ Mexico president flags water-scarcity of northern state eyed for Tesla plant
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] An aerial view shows a part of the urban area in the state of Nuevo Leon, where Tesla could build a new electric car plant, in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico December 19, 2022. "There are favorable conditions in Nuevo Leon. Lopez Obrador said he would emphasize to Tesla the need for careful planning around water, electricity and other services, noting certain northern zones ban water extraction while the southeast holds 70% of Mexico's water. Lopez Obrador has made it a priority to draw investment to southern Mexico, which has lacked the level of industrialization that has flourished along Mexico's northern border. Following Lopez Obrador's remarks on Monday, Nuevo Leon Economy Minister Ivan Rivas said water access had not been an issue for companies or held back investment, according to Mexican outlet Milenio.

☆ Mexico’s state oil company illegally flared more than $342 million worth of hydrocarbons
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A view shows part of the state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) refinery in Salamanca. Mexican state oil company Pemex illegally burnt off hydrocarbon resources worth more than $342 million in the three years up to August 2022 at two of its most important new fields, internal documents from the country's oil regulator showed. Burning off gas and condensate - a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons similar to a very light crude oil - has also resulted in extensive environmental damage. There, the documents show Pemex burnt off some 62.9 billion cubic feet of gas and 310,000 barrels of condensate. Missing InfrastructurePemex produced 201.2 billion cubic feet of gas and 24.3 million barrels of condensate from Ixachi.

☆ Exclusive: Mexico's Pemex destroyed resources worth $342 million from two top fields
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The three documents, produced by the regulator and dated August 2022, detail how Pemex (PEMX.UL) destroyed resources worth $275 million from the Ixachi field in three years and $67 million from the Quesqui field in two years. There, the documents show Pemex burnt off some 62.9 billion cubic feet of gas and 310,000 barrels of condensate. MISSING INFRASTRUCTUREPemex produced 201.2 billion cubic feet of gas and 24.3 million barrels of condensate from Ixachi. The documents also show that 77.6% of the investment into the field Pemex had pledged in its development plan - totaling $2.9 billion - were not made. The fields were meant to receive more resources so Pemex can start exploration and production earlier and faster and make up for declining production from ageing fields elsewhere.

☆ Lasers revealed 5 ancient civilizations that were hiding in plain sight
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. State-of-the-art laser technology is transforming archaeology by creating 3D renderings of ruins. A hidden 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization in northern GuatemalaResearchers found a 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization in northern Guatemala using LiDAR. 61,000 previously unknown structures hidden under the dense Guatemalan jungleLiDAR laser technology found ancient cities with more than 60,000 structures in Guatemala. An overgrown ancient civilization buried in the Bolivian AmazonA LiDAR image of an ancient Amazonian urban network in what is now Bolivia.

Companies Petroleos Mexicanos FollowMEXICO CITY, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Under pressure to increase production, Mexico's state oil company Pemex has risked fines for violations that cause environmental damage rather than delay output to fix the underlying issues, according to two senior company sources. Mexican law stipulates that the oil regulator can only levy fines for breaches of development plans rather than for environmental damage. The world's most indebted oil company, whose profits were for years plundered to fund government spending, has struggled to reverse a decade of declining oil production. Reuters GraphicsIn Mexico, fines are decided by various factors including if it is a first or repeated offense, and damage caused. Fines are low to avoid depleting Pemex funds that could be used to resolve the underlying problems, the sources at the regulator said.

Tropical Storm Lisa strengthened Tuesday as it pushed across the western Caribbean south of the Cayman Islands and was forecast to make landfall, likely as a hurricane, in Central America as early as Wednesday. And Mexico was also preparing as Lisa was forecast to strengthen in warm tropical waters and strike Belize late Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Lisa had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and was moving west at 15 mph. A hurricane warning was in effect for Roatan and the other Bay Islands of Roatan, and Guatemala declared a warning for its entire Caribbean coast. Hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach, a Colorado State University meteorologist, tweeted that Lisa would be the first hurricane to make landfall in Belize during November since 1942.

☆ Limes Cost 350% More As Cartels Terrorize Mexican Farmers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Korey Isbell | Victoria Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The price of limes was three times higher than usual at the start of 2022. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how on farm is harvesting millions of limes as cartels close in. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. And then, after terrorizing lime farmers in western Mexican states for years, cartels began expanding their turf. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how one farm is harvesting and processing millions of limes in the face of growing instability.

☆ 24 of the world’s best sandwiches
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-11 | by ( Terry Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Fanfo/Adobe Stock Montreal smoked meat sandwich, Canada:Smoked meat sandwiches sit on the counter at Schwartz's Deli in Montreal. This starchy wonderland features buttered white bread and stuffed with fries (aka chips in its native Britain). Montreal smoked meat sandwich, CanadaSmoked meat sandwiches, seen here at Schwartz's deli in Montreal, are piled high with smoked beef brisket. Cucumber sandwich, United KingdomOn the dainty side of the sandwich spectrum, cucumber sandwiches are a traditional English afternoon tea staple, often spotted on the same tiered platters with scones and mini-pastries. But if you’re whipping one up at home, any thick white bread is sure to be satisfying.

Persons: “ Eva Longoria, Joshua Resnick, Ulises Lima, Anastasia Nurullina, NOLA, Brent HofackerAdobe, Marlon, It's, Graham Hughes, AP Po, Stacy Zarin Goldberg, butty, PimboroughAdobe, Reuben, Masahiro Makino, Matt Rourke, Broodje haring, broodje haring, Brent Hofacker, Juan Mabromata, Patrick Donovan, Eva Longoria, ” Tramezzino, shawarma, mì, chả lụa, cilantro, Pan, Bon appétit, smørrebrød, Andy Huse, Chip butty, Said, sando, Reuben –, monsieur, madame, madame et monsieur, Philly cheesesteak, Falafel, –, You’ll, It’s Organizations: CNN, Adobe, Swiss, Adobe Stock Montreal, Canadian Press, AP, The Washington Post, Getty, truffle, New Orleans ’ Lower, la Miami, New, Philly, futbol Locations: Mexico, Italy, Middle, Mexican, Vietnam, United States, New Orleans, Genoa, Uruguay, bagnat, France, Denmark, Copenhagen, South Africa, Canada, Montreal, Tunisia, Cuba, Kingdom, United Kingdom, Britain, Japan, Philadelphia, Netherlands, Africa, Argentina, AFP, New England, Guadalajara, Mexico’s Jalisco, Turin, Venice, tramezzini, Europe, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Pambazo, Veracruz, Puebla, It’s, Ho Chi Minh City, , New Orleans, Orleans, Chivito, Uruguayan, Pan bagnat, Nice, South, Bon, Smørrebrød, Scandinavia, Gauteng, Johannesburg, bologna, Quebec, Fricassé, Florida, Miami, Tampa, la Tampa, la, Lancashire, England, Nebraska, New York, City, Eastern, Beirut, Amman, Choripán, Buenos Aires, South America, Maine, Connecticut

(video) Un „ochi de foc” a apărut în Golful Mexic după ce o conductă de petrol a explodat sub apă. Salvatorii sting incendiulUn incendiu a izbucnit pe o conductă de petrol submarin în Golful Mexic vineri dimineața. Conducta Ku-Malub Zaap este una dintre cele mai productive clustere petroliere din Mexic care poate produce peste 700 000 de barili de petrol pe zi, sau aproximativ 40 % din producția totală a Pemex, scrie Reuters. Focul care arde pe suprafața apei seamănă cu un „ochi”, o priveliște rar întâlnită. Pemex no ha emitido ningún tipo de comunicado.

Persons: Reuters Organizations: Veracruz Locations: Mexic

☆ Максим Кисничан: В Молдове сегодня можно снимать кино, главное – не бояться рисковать на пути к своей мечте
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-23 | by ( Mld Media Srl | Николай Мишкой | ) noi.md time to read: +15 min

Расскажите немного о сюжете вашего фильма «Memoria», нам всем интересно знать, о чем же он. Максим, хочу спросить об одной из сцен фильма «Memoria», в которой, кстати говоря, снимался и я со своей дочкой. Наверное, главная трудность для режиссера, планирующего снимать кино в Молдове, заключается в страхе пойти на риск, сделать первый шаг. Кстати, он нам тоже помогал при создании фильма «Memoria» - он непосредственно присутствовал на съемках, при монтаже, кое-что подсказывал. Беседовал Николай МишкойФотографии были сделаны во время съемок фильма «Memoria» и предоставлены редакции Noi.md режиссером картины Максимом Кисничаном.

Persons: Palm, Elias Tadeus, Максим Кисничан, Максим, Мариана, Анатолий Бахов, Мариана Кисничан, Константин Ипати, Серджиу ПаскаруСценаристы, Анатолий БаховХудожник, Мариана КисничанКомпозитор Операторпостановщик Максим КисничанОператоры Николае Кожокару, Максим КисничанСаундпостпродакшн Саундтрек, Григоре КирсановФотографы, Михаил Туркулец, Еуджен КисничанГафер Анатол КикуАссистент, Адриан ГушанЗвукорежиссер Константин КоадэКаскадер Геннадий ГуменкоРежиссер, Максим КисничанСкажите, Марианой Кисничан, Джонни Алич, Юрие Касап, Андрей Рачук, Мариус Цуркану, Геннадий Гуменко, Эмилия Жереги, Михаела Стрымбяну, Юрие Сырбу, Верджилиу Цуркан, Габриэль Стати, Серджиу Паскар, Сергей Лункевич, Какието, Джеймс Кэмерон, Мартин Скорсезе, Квентин Тарантино, Кристофер Нолан, Никита Михалков, Когдато, Валериу Жереги, Беседовал Николай МишкойФотографии Organizations: Palm, Национальный центр кинематографии, Национальная филармония имя. Locations: Veracruz, США, Республика Молдова, Молдова, Кишинев, Телецентр, Курэтура, Шолдэнештский район, Латвия, Румыния, Россия, Мексика, Голливуд

Dintre toţi jurnaliştii ucişi în 2020, 84% au fost vizaţi şi eliminaţi în mod deliberat, în comparaţie cu 63% în 2019. „Unii au fost ucişi în condiţii deosebit de barbare", subliniază RSF. În India, jurnalistul Rakesh Singh „Nirbhik" a fost „ars de viu" după ce a fost stropit cu gel hidroalcoolic foarte inflamabil, în timp ce jurnalistul Isravel Moses, corespondent al unui post de televiziune din Tamil Nadu, a fost ucis cu lovituri de macetă, relatează RSF. În Iran, statul a fost cel care l-a condamnat la moarte şi apoi executat prin spânzurare pe administratorul canalului Telegram Amadnews, Ruhollah Zam. Federaţia Internaţională a Jurnaliştilor a anunţat, la rândul său, 2.658 de jurnalişti ucişi începând din 1990.

Persons: Julio Valdivia Rodriguez, Victor Fernando Alvarez, Rakesh Singh Organizations: Agerpres, RSF Locations: francez, Proporţia, Siria, Yemen, Afganistan, Irak, India, Pakistan, Filipine, Honduras, Veracruz, Acapulco, Tamil Nadu, Iran, Nigeria, Columbia

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