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Gateway to the Underworld

In a significant event for cultural heritage, the ancient Olmec artifact known as the “Gateway to the Underworld” was successfully repatriated to Mexico. The repatriation operation was supervised...

May 29, 2023

New US-Mexico Immigration Policies

The US and Mexico have agreed on a five-point plan to deter illegal border crossings while also opening up other pathways for migrants. Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall...

May 4, 2023

What is Alux?

Recently, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador controversially claimed that a photo showed an Alux. Alux is a small, mischievous mythological creature that finds mention in Mayan mythology....

March 2, 2023

Mexico Imposes One of the World’s Strictest Anti-Smoking Laws

Mexico has recently imposed one of the world’s strictest anti-tobacco laws, setting in force a total ban on smoking in public places, including hotels, beaches, and parks. The...

January 17, 2023

Mexico Supreme Court Decriminalises Abortion

Supreme Court of Mexico has decriminalised abortion and has ruled that criminal penalties on terminating pregnancies are unconstitutional, in the state of Coahuila. Highlights This ruling was meant...

September 9, 2021

Sunflower sea star breeding to increase kelp forest

The scientists in the United States are breeding the Sunflower sea stars off coast of Washington State. Background Between 2013 and 2017, warming of oceans killed 5.75 billion...

May 18, 2021

Talkative Dinosaur found in Mexico

The Palaeontologists recently identified a new species of dinosaur called the Talkative Dinosaur. It was identified in the northern Mexico. The research is being conducted by the National...

May 16, 2021

Dracopristis hoffmanorum: Godzilla shark discovered in New Mexico

In 2013, Jonh Paul Hodnett, a graduate student unearthed fossil of a shark at Albuquerque, New Mexico. It turns out that, it is a fossil of a new...

April 20, 2021

Mexico’s Cannabis Bill

Mexico’s Congress recently passed a bill to decriminalize cannabis (more commonly called marijuana) for medicinal, scientific and recreational use. If the Senate too passes the bill, one of...

March 11, 2021

US revokes order on US-Mexico Border Wall Project

The President of United States, Joe Biden, has revoked the emergency order that was issued by former President Donald Trump to construct the US-Mexico border wall. The order was revoked on...

February 12, 2021

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