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Mexico City’s 2nd oldest church burns amid homeless takeover

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A man mops the deck of a painted wooden boat known as a trajinera, popular with tourists that ply the water canals in the Xochimilco district of Mexico City, during a reopening of activities after a six-month pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s famous floating gardens reopen after virus shutdown

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A worker disinfects a theater after a movie screening, at the Cineteca Nacional, Mexico's film archive, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. After being closed for nearly five months amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters in the capital reopened Wednesday at 30% capacity.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico City reopens movie theaters to sparse crowds

By BERENICE BAUTISTA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the playing of the national anthem after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. (AP Photo/File)

1968 Mexico City Games marked by protest, falling records

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

Catholic priests stand inside the Metropolitan Cathedral ahead of the first Mass open to the public amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Mexico City, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Faithful return to Mexico City churches with masks, gel

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Coronavirus patients in various stages of recovery talk inside the women's ward at a COVID-19 hospital inside Military Camp 1, in Naucalpan, Mexico State, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The hospital is one of more than 100 converted spaces operated by the military to treat COVID-19 patients, but since it opened in May only about half its beds have been occupied. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Despite COVID surge, Mexico avoids overwhelmed hospitals

By MARÍA VERZA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Mexico re-brands 1520 Spanish defeat as ‘Victorious Night’

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A forensic investigator collects cartridges at the scene where the Mexican capital's police chief was attacked by gunmen in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2020. Heavily armed gunmen attacked and wounded Omar García Harfuch in an operation that left several dead. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco cartel

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Forensic investigators and police work the scene where security secretary, Omar García Harfuch, was attacked by gunmen in the early morning hours in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2020. Heavily armed gunmen attacked and wounded Mexico City’s police chief in a brazen operation that left an unspecified number of dead, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Gunmen wound Mexico City police chief; 3 dead

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO - Associated Press

Pedestrians, some wearing protective face masks, walk through a street market in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 25, 2020. With Latin America now the epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, but with hundreds of millions relying on these markets for food and livelihoods, the debate now centers on whether and how they can ever operate safely. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Latin America’s critical food markets fuel virus spread

By ALEXIS TRIBOULARD and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

A crematorium worker prepares an oven for a COVID-19 victim at the Panteón de San Nicolás Tolentino cemetery in the Iztapalapa neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, June 4, 2020. Funeral parlors and crematoriums in Iztapalapa, a borough of 2 million people, say they have seen their work multiplied with the surging number of dead of COVID-19 in the capital's hardest-hit corner by the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico alleges some doctors sold false death certificates

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FILE - In this April 3, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters cheering from over an outside wall, after visiting a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital that will be converted to receive COVID-19 patients in the Coyoacan district of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexico president kicks off ‘new normal’ phase amid pandemic

By DAN CHRISTIAN ROJAS and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

In this May 5, 2020 photo, workers in full protection gear as a precaution against the new coronavirus, unload a coffin that contain the remains of a person who died from the new coronavirus, in an area of the municipal cemetery set apart for victims of COVID-19, in Tijuana, Mexico. Citing a threat of the virus from Mexico, the Trump administration has banned hundreds of thousands of people from crossing the southern border with emergency measures that prohibit nonessential traffic and reject asylum seekers without a hearing. (AP Photo/Joebeth Terriquez)

In Mexican border cities, many fear virus is coming from US

By JORGE LEBRIJA and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Women hang clothes out to dry on a terrace in Mexico City, Saturday, May 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Prodded by US, Mexico aims to restart industrial plants

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

People sleep in chairs under a tarp set up on the sidewalk outside a public hospital where they wait for news of their hospitalized loved ones in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City, early Thursday, May 7, 2020. Iztapalapa has the most confirmed cases of the new coronavirus within Mexico's densely populated capital, itself one of the hardest hit areas of the country with thousands of confirmed cases and more than 600 deaths. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Fears grow as coronavirus bears down on Mexico City

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask and gloves walks past Nossa Senhora das Gracas cemetery during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Pandemic upends lives of Latin America’s domestic servants

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

In this March 20, 2020 photo, make-up artist Nadia Muñoz applies lipstick while listening to the television news about the first person in Peru who died of Coronavirus in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Lima, Peru. &quot;We have a supermarket nearby, light, water, internet, a phone and cable TV,&quot; Muñoz as she recorded a makeup technique lesson to post on Instagram. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and EVENS SANON and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Mexico City subway trains collide, killing 1, injuring 41

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

AP Explains: Mexican women to march against gender violence

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 9, 2017, file photo, a Mexican flag flies at half-mast on the Metropolitan Cathedral during three days of mourning following a deadly earthquake and hurricane, in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Vatican halts Mexico abuse prevention mission, cites virus

By Maria Verza, Nicole Winfield and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press