Sydney Morning Herald: Church cancels world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage over pandemic. ” Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation on Monday of what’s considered the world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico’s Episcopal Conference said in a statement that the basilica will be closed from December 10-13. […]
BBC: Covid: Mexico passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths. “Mexico has recorded more than 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 – the fourth country to pass the sombre milestone. According to Johns Hopkins University, the country has suffered 100,104 deaths since the pandemic began. The news comes just days after the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country reported more than one […]
Los Angeles Times: Coronavirus has claimed more than 90,000 lives in Mexico, muting the country’s iconic Day of the Dead. “The ongoing pandemic has felled more than 90,000 Mexicans, ranking the country fourth worldwide in the number of coronavirus-related deaths. It has also achieved another doleful feat: muting one of the country’s signature holidays — […]
Arizona State University: Mexico COVID-19 model points to complexities of response. “When Mexico detected its first case of COVID-19 in late February, few could have predicted a rise in cases to 850,000 with 86,000 deaths to date. Like other countries, Mexico reacted slowly until the growing number of infections in April forced the government to […]
Arizona State University: Mexico, U.S. ambassadors discuss digital diplomacy and social media. “In a recent Convergence Lab and Future Tense event, Ambassador Bárcena and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau discussed the complex triangulation and impact of digital diplomacy on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. Future Tense is a partnership of ASU, Slate and New America that […]
NBC DFW: UTSA Offering 200-Year-Old Mexican Recipes in Free-to-Download Digitized Cookbooks. “Archivists at the UTSA Libraries Special Collections are compiling recipes from a digitized collection of 2,000 Mexican cookbooks into a series of three cookbooks called ‘Recetas: Cooking in the Time of Coronavirus.’ As individuals find themselves in the kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic under […]
University of Miami: Take a virtual, photographic journey through Mexico City. “For as long as he can remember, Sean Black had always wanted to visit Mexico City. And this past Christmas, he finally made his dream come true. ‘Traveling on Christmas Day from Miami, a simple three-hour flight, I immediately set off on my adventure […]
BBC: Coronavirus: Mexico’s death toll passes 30,000. “Mexico has recorded more than 30,000 deaths from its coronavirus outbreak, as the disease continues to ravage one of Latin America’s worst-hit countries. The health ministry said deaths rose by 523 on Saturday, pushing the total to 30,366.”
Las Vegas Sun: White House eyes travel from Mexico as source of virus spike. “The White House is floating a theory that travel from Mexico may be contributing to a new wave of coronavirus infections, rather than states’ efforts to reopen their economies. The notion was discussed at some length during a meeting of the […]
Bloomberg: It’s Covid Code Red in Latin America With No Signs of Peaking. “When a top World Health Organization official this week declared Latin America the new epicenter for Covid-19, few experts in the region needed to be persuaded. The data are overwhelming — and overwhelmingly dreadful. The number of regional cases stands at 1.17 […]
The Guardian: Record death tolls in Mexico and Brazil add to fears of Covid-19 surge in Latin America. “In Brazil – where the president, Jair Bolsonaro, has dismissed the virus as ‘a little flu’ – the health ministry reported a new grim record of 881 deaths in 24 hours on Tuesday night. It has now […]
New York Times: Hidden Toll: Mexico Ignores Wave of Coronavirus Deaths in Capital. “The Mexican government is not reporting hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico City, dismissing anxious officials who have tallied more than three times as many fatalities in the capital than the government publicly acknowledges, according to officials and […]
National Catholic Reporter: Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection. “The collections highlight churches and faith-based organizations such as Church of the Epiphany, an Episcopal congregation where activists planned the Chicano Moratorium to protest the Vietnam War draft; Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention and rehabilitation organization founded by Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle; […]
New York Times: Exclusive: Nurses at Mexico Hospital Hit by Coronavirus Say They Were Told to Avoid Masks. “Nurses at a public hospital hit by Mexico’s worst coronavirus outbreak were told by their managers not to wear protective masks at the start of the epidemic to avoid sowing panic among patients, nurses and other medical […]
Houston Chronicle: MFAH unveils new Latin art resources. “The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), have launched an expanded, redesigned website and database for its Documents of Latin American and Latino Art Digital Archive Project. Begun 20 years ago, the project now […]