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- Victoria Sámano, center, Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, right, and Yamileth Adriano — all trans women — serve meals at Casa Lleca, the LGBTQ+ shelter they operate in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Samano founded the shelter in 2020 in an effort to help LGBTQ+ people and sex workers who were unhoused or at risk of losing their homes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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A kitchen staffed by trans women is a refuge for Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community
By MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA - Associated Press
Tue,10/08/24-11:01PM , 555 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez plops another corn cake into the piping hot oil of a large pan. As she grabs a set of tongs to flip them one by one, she yells across the kitchen realizing she’s pressed for time.

“We open in 15 minutes!” she shouts over the cumbia music playing in the background.
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- Juana Salazar Segundo walks through sewage-infused floodwaters in Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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Residents of Mexico City suburb are anxious after living over a month in black sewage water
By MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA - Associated Press
Fri,09/13/24-11:05PM , 456 Reads
CHALCO, Mexico (AP) — As 56-year-old Juana Salazar Segundo walked through her home in Chalco, a low-income suburb southeast of Mexico City, she recalled how black, reeking water had reached up to her belly button after flooding early l
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- Carlos CGH is an Indigenous artist in Mexico who aims to conserve his native Triqui language through rap. The Triqui people are native to the western part of Oaxaca and have struggled with political and social conflicts going back more than 80 years. Carlos CGH, whose full name is Carlos Guadalupe Hernández, says Triqui is a language at risk of disappearing and he hopes to change that with his music. (AP video shot by Martín Silva Rey)
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In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap
By MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA - Associated Press
Thu,08/22/24-12:43AM , 716 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Backstage at a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Mexico City's sprawling central square, Carlos CGH traced his fingers across a black and red “gabán,” which is similar to a poncho.
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- Hurricane Ernesto charged toward Bermuda on Friday as officials in the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean opened shelters and closed government offices. (AP/Kristen Douglas)
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Hurricane Ernesto weakens into tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters
By MARIANA MARTÍNEZ BARBA - Associated Press
Sat,08/17/24-4:06AM , 493 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto weakened into a tropical storm late Saturday as it moved away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds.
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