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

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A member of the National Guard stands watch inside the gates as state police guard the street outside, at Las Americas General Hospital in Ecatepec, a suburb of Mexico City, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities and the epicenter of the country's coronavirus epidemic, will begin a gradual reopening June 1, its mayor said Wednesday, even as daily new infections continued to set records. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

One year later, watchdogs criticize Mexico’s National Guard

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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

In this Friday, May 10, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol Agent Brady Waikel rescues a 7-year-old boy from Honduras after he fell out of a makeshift raft and lost hold of his mother as Border Patrol agents respond to rafts crossing the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass, Texas. (Bob Own/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Border rescues ignored by media that hypes ‘haunting’ deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, applauds prior to delivering a speech during his visit to a public hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Friday, June 19, 2020. Lopez Obrador is desperate to restart Mexico's struggling economy after being cooped up under social distancing measures due to the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexican president’s plan to meet with Trump draws criticism

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In this May 19, 2018 photo, Gregory Katz, acting London bureau chief for The Associated Press, stands in front of St. George's Chapel in Windsor near London, while covering the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Katz, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who recently led the AP's coverage of Brexit and the election of Boris Johnson as prime minister, died Monday, June 22, 2020. He had been ill in recent months and had contracted COVID-19. He was 67. (AP Photo)

Gregory Katz, acclaimed AP journalist, dies at 67

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI - Associated Press

Pope Francis, framed by one the fountains that adorn St' Peter's Square, delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope prays for Mexico after powerful quake

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A woman and boy sit on a set of swings as they wait for the all-clear to return to their apartment, after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The earthquake struck near the Huatulco resort in southern Mexico on Tuesday morning, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico quake toll rises to 7; hundreds of homes damaged

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Security tape alert people of a building damaged by an earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The earthquake was centered near the resort of Huatulco, in the southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)

Powerful earthquake shakes southern, central Mexico

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump says border wall ‘has helped’ cut illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican triplets test positive for virus on day of birth

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Musicians play their instruments during a protest demanding financial support after not being able to earn a living since March because of the restrictions to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Mexico City, Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico virus cases, deaths continue high, reopening remote

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Mexico to push for development from UN Security Council

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A health worker disinfects a fellow colleague after outside the home of a 75-year-old resident who they tested for COVID-19, in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico posts more high virus numbers, acknowledges plateau

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Federal judge, wife killed in cartel-plagued Mexican state

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters in Lazaro Cardenas, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Monday, June 1, 2020. Amid a pandemic and the remnants of a tropical storm, President Lopez Obrador kicked off Mexico's return to a &quot;new normal&quot; Monday with his first road trip in two months as the nation began to gradually ease some virus-inspired restrictions. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz)

Mexico president would sell gas to Venezuela if asked

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A tourist fishes from the shore in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, June 11, 2020. An irony of the coronavirus pandemic is that the idyllic beach vacation in Mexico in the brochures really does exist now: the white sand beaches are sparkling clean and empty on the Caribbean coast. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz)

Mexico desperate to reopen 11 million-job tourism industry

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Mexico labor lawyer to be held pending trial on riot charges

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President Donald Trump leaves the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2020, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Dallas for a fundraiser. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House eyes travel from Mexico as source of virus spike

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Pedestrians stroll past an open pharmacy amidst otherwise closed shops, in central Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday, despite the city still being in the most serious &quot;red light&quot; phase of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico industrial activity plunges in April amid pandemic

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