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Mexico labor lawyer to be held pending trial on riot charges

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An organ grinder, wearing a protective face mask, eyes the camera as she waits for a delivery of donated groceries, in Mexico City, Thursday, June 4, 2020. CADENA, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting during emergencies and disasters around the world, dispatched groceries to hundreds of organ grinders who play for tips from passersby but have lost their source of income due to restrictions amid the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico sees cases numbers swell, reports 596 new deaths

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Death toll in latest Mexico alcohol poisoning rises to 18

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In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico as other migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, that crosses into Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

Trump Mexico pressure stopped on asylum seekers at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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. Gravediggers and crematorium workers in Mexico are struggling to keep pace as the country registers escalating coronavirus death numbers while gradually easing some restrictions aimed at curbing COVID-19. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

AP Photos: Ashes, graves — pandemic’s ‘last link’ in Mexico

By MARCO UGARTE - Associated Press

Recreational trailers and boats are parked along LA-46 inside the levee gates in anticipation of Tropical Storm Cristobal in St. Bernard Parish, La., Saturday, June 6, 2020. A re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the U.S. Gulf Coast early Saturday, bringing with it the heavy rains that already caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate)

Tropical Storm Cristobal advances toward US Gulf Coast

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In this Thursday, June 4, 2020, photo, Francisco Flores, left, poses for a portrait with his wife Livia Herrera in New York. When his brother Crescencio Flores died of coronavirus in New York, his parents back in Mexico asked for one thing: that their son be sent home for burial. So far, his efforts have been in vain. “I am trying to do this because my parents, 85 and 87 years old, live there,&quot; Francisco Flores said. “They are rooted in their customs. They want a Christian burial for the remains of their son.” (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Mexican families struggle to send virus victims back home

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and GISELA SALOMON and PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Rain clouds hover over mountains during tropical storm Amanda in Barberena, eastern Guatemala, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific season drenched parts of Central America on Sunday and officials in El Salvador said at least seven people had died in flooding. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal aims at US Gulf coast

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8 more die in Mexico from methanol-tainted liquor

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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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Rain clouds hover over mountains during tropical storm Amanda in Barberena, eastern Guatemala, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific season drenched parts of Central America on Sunday and officials in El Salvador said at least seven people had died in flooding. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Cristobal regains tropical storm force on track to US coast

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Cemetery workers in a protective gear lower a coffin wrapped in plastic, containing a COVID-19 victim, into a gravesite at the San Lorenzo Tezonco Iztapalapa cemetery in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. The coronavirus toll in Mexico soared to a new daily high Wednesday, more than double the previous one-day record. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico leader urges calm after jump in reported COVID deaths

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

A man seeks to salvage some of his belongings from what used to be his home, destroyed by the waters of the Acelhuate River, in the New Israel Community of San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, May 31, 2020. According to the Ministry of the Interior at least seven people died across the country after two days of heavy rains. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Storm season adds to pandemic worries for Mexico, C. America

By MARÍA VERZA and MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Images of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died after being taken into police custody in Minneapolis, hang surrounded by roses on a security barrier outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, Saturday, May 30, 2020. A sign in Spanish reads: &quot;Racism kills, here, there, and in the whole world,&quot; on the display put up by a group of Americans living in Mexico, along with other ex-pat and Mexican friends. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Anger rising in Mexico over alleged police brutality death

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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’s president goes full-steam ahead with Mayan train

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A man takes a coffee break on an empty park bench along Paseo de la Reforma street in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. While the federal government’s nationwide social distancing rule formally ended Monday, it is urging people in so-called “red” zones to maintain most of those measures — and so many people are falling ill and dying each day that those zones cover nearly the whole country. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico reports new one-day high of 1,092 coronavirus deaths

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves a starting flag during a ceremony 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)

Mexican president defies leftist label in virus response

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

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

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 to resume travel, fly commercial next week

By CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

This image released by Honeywater Films shows Diana Kennedy in a scene from the documentary &quot;Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy.&quot; The documentary traces the unlikely rise of an Englishwoman who became one of the most respected authorities on Mexican food. She's been called “the Julia Child of Mexico,” “the Mick Jagger of Mexican Cuisine” and even the “Indiana Jones of food.” (Honeywater Films via AP)

Documentary focuses on unlikely champion of Mexican cuisine

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press