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Mexico City fire fighters and rescue personnel work to recover victims from a subway car that fell after a section of Line 12 of the subway collapsed in Mexico City, Monday, May 3, 2021. The section passing over a road in southern Mexico City collapsed Monday night, dropping a subway train, trapping cars and causing at least 50 injuries, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jose Ruiz)

Mexico City metro overpass collapses onto road; at least 23 dead

By E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press

Tunnel collapse nearly led to Mexico City drain explosion

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Transgender sex worker Geraldine wearing cat make-up, sits on her usual corner as she waits for clients outside the Revolution subway station, in Mexico City, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Geraldine, 30, a sex worker since age 15, says many of her regular clients have stopped coming amid the coronavirus pandemic and that seeing new clients presents new health and security risks. She is most concerned about the risk of bringing COVID-19 home to her partner, who has diabetes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pandemic, hunger force thousands into sex work in Mexico

By REBECCA BLACKWELL - Associated Press

The sun sets amid a dust storm in Mexico City, Sunday, March. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico City air pollution spikes to 6 times acceptable limit

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Gunmen ambush police convoy near Mexico City, killing 13

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Banners with messages directed at Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hang from a perimeter fence set up in front of the National Palace as preparation for the upcoming International Women's Day demonstration, in Mexico City, Friday, March 5, 2021. Marked on March 8th, the day has been sponsored by the United Nations since 1975, to celebrate women’s achievements and aims to further their rights. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican president defends record as women protest

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington.&#160;(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jen Psaki says it’s time to ‘remind’ room that Biden is ‘a devout Catholic’ after abortion inquiry

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attends the commemoration of his second anniversary in office at the National Palace in Mexico City. One day after Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was dropping the drug trafficking case against its former defense secretary, López Obrador said Friday, Jan. 15, 2020 that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” the accusations against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico says US ‘fabricated’ charges, releases evidence

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

A waiter prepares an order of crepes Suzette inside Argentine grill Quebracho, in the Cuauhtemoc neighborhood of Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. More than three weeks into Mexico City's second pandemic shutdown some restaurateurs worried about their ability to survive ignored official warnings and opened limited seating Monday under the slogan, &quot;Abrir o Morir,&quot; Spanish for &quot;Open or Die.&quot; (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Some Mexico City restaurants reopen defying pandemic rules

By DIEGO DELGADO - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference known as &quot;La Mañanera&quot; at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Las Mañaneras are a platform for the president to relay information he says the media ignore or misrepresent. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president reaches the people with morning show

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Mexico City ban on single-use plastics takes effect

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2019 file photo, former soccer great Diego Maradona flashes victory signs to fans below at the Casa Rosada government house after meeting with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Decades ago, Maradona held up his team's soccer trophy at this spot on the balcony after winning the World Cup in Mexico in 1986. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Marcos Brindicci, File)

If you were there, you will never forget Maradona in Mexico

By BARRY WILNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, pilgrims arrive at the plaza outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican Catholic Church announced on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 the cancelation of the annual pilgrimage, the largest Catholic pilgrimage worldwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Catholic Church cancels Guadalupe pilgrimage over pandemic

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Mexico City closes bars, limits eateries as virus cases rise

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Ex-embassy worker suspected of sexually assaulting 24 women

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Ariz. During his 2016 primary run, Trump sought to mark his ground as a hard-line immigration enforcer who would build “a great, great wall on our southern border.” Nearly four years later, Trump still has work to do completing his wall and much that has been completed has been paid by U.S. taxpayers despite promises otherwise. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Low expectations in Mexico as US election approaches

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb 25. 2010 file photo, Mexico's Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Mario Molina gestures during a conference on global warming in Guadalajara, Mexico. Molina has died on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, his family informed. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso, File)

Mario Molina, Mexico chemistry Nobel winner, dies at 77

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Mexico City shooting leaves 6 dead, 4 injured

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Soldiers raise a Mexican national flag as part of its annual Independence Day military parade, on the Zocalo, the main plaza in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Mexicans celebrated their Independence Day without big public ceremonies for the first time in 153 years Tuesday night due to restrictions on public gatherings caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations muted by pandemic

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Paleontologists work to preserve the skeleton of a mammoth that was discovered at the construction site of Mexico City’s new airport in the Santa Lucia military base, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The paleontologists are busy digging up and preserving the skeletons of mammoths, camels, horses, and bison as machinery and workers are busy with the construction of the Felipe Angeles International Airport by order of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

‘Mammoth central’ found at Mexico airport construction site

By GERARDO CARRILLO - Associated Press