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Oaxaca Governor Salomón Jara has announced that all profits from the Guelaguetza festival, the state’s pre-eminent Indigenous cultural event that takes place throughout July, will be devoted to the reconstruction of regions destroyed by Hurricane Erick . In a social media post on Friday , Jara announced the creation of a Guelaguetza fund, with all ticket sales from the festival’s two iconic “Mondays on the Hill” ( Los lunes del cerro ) being redirected to hurricane clean-up efforts.  In one region of Oaxaca especially hard hit by Erick, it is estimated that 25% of the homes were destroyed. (Carolina Jiménez Mariscal/Cuartoscuro) “Our sisters and brothers are not alone, and we will not abandon them,” he wrote. “We will work to get [the coastal areas] back on their feet and strengthen the region.” The Guelaguetza festival is an annual celebration of Oaxaca’s rich cultural and ethnic diversity, showcasing traditional dances, music, food, and crafts from the state’s eight geogr...

Wildfires have ravaged the border municipality of Tecate in Baja California, as firefighters enter their 15th consecutive day battling to extinguish the blaze.   The fire, which has now spread to over 16,000 hectares, started on June 16 in the Guadalajara 2 community of Tecate, a municipality of approximately 100,000. View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Marina Del Pilar (@marinadelpilar_ao) The epicenter of the fires is in the town of La Rumorosa, where dozens of houses have been damaged or destroyed by the fires.   Thousands of native trees and plants across the region have also been destroyed, and many animals have died as they were unable to escape the rapid advance of the wildfires. The National Forestry Commission (Conafor) reported on Sunday that approximately 75% of the blaze was deemed under control and 50% extinguished, though the risk of further spread will depend heavily on weather conditions over the co...

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said Sunday that federal authorities had dismantled a major fuel theft ring, arresting a total of 32 people in simultaneous operations in Mexico City, México state and Querétaro. Carried out last Friday, the operations allowed authorities to “dismantle one of the main criminal organizations dedicated to the theft and illicit commercialization of fuel in the central area of the country,” García Harfuch told a press conference on Sunday. The criminal group mainly stole fuel from pipelines operated by state oil company Pemex, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. García Harfuch said that authorities identified “the main leaders” of the criminal group, the places where it stole fuel and the transportation routes it used as a result of “intelligence and investigation work” carried out over a period of more than six months. He said that authorities obtained warrants for the arrest of seven people “linked to these activities,” but detained a to...

While Tropical Depression Barry continues to dump heavy rains on Mexico’s northern Gulf states, on the Pacific side, Tropical Storm Flossie is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane and skirt the west coast over the next few days. At 9 a.m. on Monday, Flossie was centered about 160 miles (255 kilometers) south of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, and was moving northwest at 10 mph (16 kph). It is not forecast to make landfall in Mexico but will cause significant rainfall in Michoacán and Colima.  Seguimos muy pendientes del desarrollo de la tormenta tropical #Flossie De acuerdo con el último informe de la @conagua_mx , el centro de este sistema se encuentra a 280 km al sur de Zihuatanejo y continúa desplazándose hacia el noroeste, provocando lluvias torrenciales en… pic.twitter.com/GWjzFNqAMg — Evelyn Salgado Pineda (@EvelynSalgadoP) June 30, 2025 Mexico’s National Meteorological Service issued a Tropical Storm Warning for Mexico’s west coast from Punta San Telmo, Michoacán...

I’m a teacher, I chose to be one. I’m a mom and a daughter. Do you think I would leave what I love the most to come here to fight without a reason?  — Words on a placard affixed to a tarpaulin shelter at the CNTE teachers’ union protest camp in the historic center of Mexico City. A tent city spreads across the Zócalo, the political and cultural heart of Mexico, and for more than three weeks in May and June the site of a massive teachers’ sit-in. Just off Mexico City’s main square a stench emanates from a row of portable toilets, an olfactory indication of just one of the hardships of extended protest. A group of young men partially block Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City’s most famous boulevard, after having traveled almost 1,000 kilometers to the capital from the southern state of Chiapas, where their teachers’ college classmate was allegedly shot dead by state police. This statement, given in English in the introduction to this article, is an eloquent answer to the oft-repe...

The Yucatán state government is working with the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) on an ambitious energy infrastructure and modernization plan that seeks to eliminate by 2027 the blackouts that have been recurring over the last five years and to achieve energy self-sufficiency by the end of the current administration in 2030. “Yucatán is facing a complex energy situation, especially during this season of extreme heat,” Yucatán Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena said at a recent press conference held jointly with CFE officials. He added that the service failures are a result of decades of neglect and a lack of planning in the development and maintenance of the electrical infrastructure, as previously the work was concentrated solely in Mérida.  The National Chamber of the Manufacturing Industry (Canacintra) agrees, noting that the entire Yucatán Peninsula’s electrical infrastructure is insufficient to meet growing residential, industrial, and tourist demand.  In March, the CFE...

A cargo vessel carrying 3,048 new vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean on June 23 after being abandoned weeks earlier when fire disabled the ship. The Morning Midas sank in international waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain, the ship’s management company, the London-based Zodiac Maritime , said in a statement. Cargo ship Morning Midas sinks in Pacific Ocean after days of fire 3,000 cars onboard, including 800 EVs, Lithium batteries, 1500 tons of fuel now sitting 16,000 feet underwater. Pollution risk being monitored #morningmidas pic.twitter.com/r6u31EB1zC — Nabila Jamal (@nabilajamal_) June 25, 2025 The carrier departed on May 26 from Yantai, China, and was headed for the port of Lázaro Cárdenas in the Pacific coast state of Michaocán.  Bloomberg News reported the ship’s load included at least 800 new electric vehicles (EV) manufactured by Chinese automakers Chirey and Great Wall Motor. The newspaper El Financiero reported that there were also autom...