Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Sept.
"We are all in favor of life," said Chief Justice Zaldívar. "The only thing is that some of us are in favor of the life of women being one in which their dignity is respected, in which they can fully exercise their rights."
Estoy agradecida y conmovida por la solidaridad de los colegas que firmaron esta carta. Aprecio el apoyo y me siento honrada de poder ejercer este trabajo junto a ustedes.
#MEXICO
: Carta abierta de corresponsales y periodistas mexicanos en respuesta a la revelación de datos personales por el presidente
@lopezobrador_
de la jefa de buró en México del
@nytimes
,
@Nataliekitro
.
En la carta, solicitan que el presidente ejerza su derecho de réplica sin…
The Mexican government misled the public about the coronavirus outbreak in Mexico City.
Its own data should have triggered a lockdown of the capital in early December.
Instead, the govt kept the city open for two busy shopping weeks
Our investigation:
THREAD: Last month, a metro that was less than ten years old crashed in Mexico City, killing 26 people. Why?
Our investigation found serious, basic flaws in the construction of the metro — which likely led directly to the accident:
American officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.
w/
@alanfeuer
Now seems like a good time to say that my grandmother, a German Jew who fled Berlin in 1938 and made it to Montreal, survived the coronavirus.
She’s 91!
I spent a few days in Uvalde. One thing that became clear: this is not Newtown or Parkland.
Guns are part of the identity of this town. Almost everyone I talked to owned one, for hunting or protection.
But even here, people are begging for change.
HILO: Un tramo del metro que tenía menos de diez años se desplomó en Ciudad de México; 26 personas murieron. ¿Por qué?
Nuestra investigación encontró fallas serias en la construcción de la línea, que probablemente contribuyeron directamente a la tragedia
At GM in Mexico, workers earn $9/day. They’re denied bathroom breaks for hours, to the point where a woman recently stained her pants while menstruating.
Now they’re revolting. Against long odds, they’re trying to install a worker-led union at the plant.
In response to last weeks doxxing of
@nytimes
Mexico Bureau Chief
@Nataliekitro
by Mexican president
@lopezobrador_
, correspondents and Mexican journalist wrote an open letter requesting that the president exercise his right to reply without placing journalists at risk.
Here is the document
@HLGatell
sent to
@Claudiashein
justifying keeping the city open.
The numbers for hospital beds with ventilators and % positivity of covid tests are both lower than what he and the govt published.
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, refused to even get on the phone with
@SecBlinken
, who wanted to persuade him to come to the Summit of the Americas
Noticias profesionales: voy a asumir un nuevo rol como jefa de la oficina del NYT en México. Es un trabajo soñado y estoy súper emocionada.
He estado trabajando como presentadora invitada de The Daily, el podcast del New York Times, ¡pero regreso a la oficina pronto!
Maria Abi-Habib (
@Abihabib
) and Natalie Kitroeff (
@Nataliekitro
) will be taking on exciting new assignments in the Mexico City bureau. Maria will take on the newly created role of investigative correspondent, Natalie will be our new bureau chief.
terrifying look at what is happening inside mexico city's hospitals right now.
the red/yellow lines are the city's projections for how things were supposed to go.
Among other things: this story is such a clear example of the importance of local news.
The reporter *lists the names of all ten board members who voted to ban Maus* and links to the meeting minutes. Respect.
Professional news: I'm taking on a new role as bureau chief in Mexico City. This is truly my dream job and I'm so excited.
I've been working with the Daily, guest hosting the podcast for a few weeks, but will be back to the bureau soon!
Maria Abi-Habib (
@Abihabib
) and Natalie Kitroeff (
@Nataliekitro
) will be taking on exciting new assignments in the Mexico City bureau. Maria will take on the newly created role of investigative correspondent, Natalie will be our new bureau chief.
So
@HLGatell
says there was an increase in hospital beds in CDMX.
That never appears in federal data, anywhere. Not before or after they decided to keep the color orange.
#VIDEO
El doctor
@HLGatell
explicó en
#AristeguiEnVivo
que la CDMX no pasó a semáforo rojo a principios de diciembre porque había mayor capacidad hospitalaria que la aparecida en los registros oficiales.
Dato de
@nytimes
estaba desactualizado.
Más info 👉
Imagine building a case against the former Mexican defense minister for:
1 protecting a drug cartel from military ops
2 directing military ops against rivals
3 orchestrating drug shipments
4 introducing cartel to other bribe-takers
and then just... sending him back to Mexico.
Vaccination in Mexico: a unique experience.
You get to watch large shirtless Lucha Libre fighters do the limbo right after getting your shot.
The elderly dance and sing rancheras. There’s wheelchair yoga.
Mexico decides when to go on lockdown based on a formula that considers cases, hospitalizations, deaths. Officials say it’s “objective” and transparent.
But in its early Dec calculation, the government used two numbers that were far lower than figures it had published elsewhere.
López Obrador denied the allegations and called them “completely false,” saying they would not “in any way” affect Mexico’s relationship with the US.
He did leave open the question of whether trust between the two countries had been damaged.
The American officials concluded that the U.S. government had little appetite to pursue allegations against the leader of one of America’s top allies, and set the inquiry aside.
They did not find any direct ties between the president and criminal groups.
3 of the 4 most populous Latin American countries have decriminalized abortion since 2020 — thanks in part to a massive wave of feminist organizing.
Mexican women are now trying to bring the energy directly to the United States:
That allowed the government to justify keeping Mexico City open for weeks as the pandemic raged.
Now hospitals are more than 85 percent full.
Doctors are posting desperate pleas on social media begging people to stay home. The city is sending frantic warning texts to citizens
The first woman to lead a prime time news show in Mexico is leaving the spotlight.
In a deeply polarized country, is her brand of restrained coverage on its way out, too?
The Cuban government says it is on the brink of an extraordinary scientific achievement: the mass production of a coronavirus vaccine invented on the island.
Tourists may be invited to get a shot.
Nicaragua is holding what it calls an election today. Daniel Ortega has prepared by:
—arresting all credible challengers
—shutting down opposition parties
—banning large campaign events
—closing voting stations en masse
With
@yubelkamendozag
SCOOP: In June, a witness told Guatemala’s top anticorruption prosecutor he’d delivered a rolled-up carpet stuffed with cash to the president’s home.
A month later, facing attacks, the prosecutor was fired. He fled to the US with the evidence he compiled
Mexico's president cannot stop thanking Trump for how he treated Mexico.
His response to Biden's win has been to repeatedly poke the president-elect in the eye.
The govt’s formula for determining covid risk considers 10 indicators, assigns points to each, adds them up.
Anything over 31 triggers a lockdown.
If the govt had used its own published data, CDMX would have been at 33 in early December — which should have led to a shutdown.
Mexican President
@lopezobrador_
refuses to acknowledge Biden’s victory, says he will "wait until all legal issues are resolved"
+ refers to when he claimed fraud in the Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, which he lost by a hair.
Full statement
Just amazing.
One of the largest nonprofit hospitals in the US is required *by law* to give poor patients free care.
Instead, with the help of McKinsey, it has made a Wall St style business out of squeezing the poorest patients for all they’re worth.
I spoke to a rancher who had a gun on him, despises Biden, and thinks the election was stolen.
But he also wants limits to gun access.
“I don’t think that anybody should be able to buy a gun unless they’re 25,” he said. As for assault rifles: “I don’t think they should be sold”
A young economic consultant and a tech entrepreneur/Bitcoin enthusiast were among the first to uncover the true covid death toll in Mexico City.
The first time they met in person was when
@marybsheridan
wrote this article about them:
The Vatican tried to edit the pope’s comments on same-sex civil unions out of history.
The church cut the comments from a 2019 interview with Televisa. The network didn’t see the footage until it surfaced this week in a documentary.
with
@jasondhorowitz
An independent inquiry confirms our reporting on the causes of the subway accident in Mexico City: construction errors, including poor welding of studs that held the structure together, led to the crash.
@Abihabib
@oscarlopezNYT
@jamesglanz
@dawncai624
NEW: As Russia’s economy craters, the U.S. is seizing on an opportunity to advance its agenda among Latin American autocracies that might start seeing Mr. Putin as an increasingly weak ally.
With
@AKurmanaev
@kenvogel
In the document, the government says just 45% of hospital beds with ventilators were occupied.
That directly contradicts this official announcement from
@HLGatell
saying that at the cutoff point for the calculation, 58% of hospital beds with ventilators were occupied:
A nivel nacional, 61% de camas de hospitalización general están disponibles y 39% ocupadas. En camas con ventiladores, 68% están disponibles y 32% ocupadas. 2/2
My Jewish great grandpa Gottfried Fuchs played for Germany’s national soccer team — and scored a then-world record 10 goals in a 1912 Olympic match.
He fled the country in 1939.
Here’s Gottfried with the great Pelé!!!
There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Guatemala and Honduras.
Back to back storms affected 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, creating a new class of refugees who lost everything — and have more reason than ever to migrate
The U.S. charged a Mexican general with drug trafficking, then sent him home to save the security relationship. They trusted Mexico to investigate.
Mexico just exonerated him without a trial.
“This is a major slap in the face"
@alanfeuer
@oscarlopezNYT
Mexico City’s mayor is a scientist -- and the first woman (and Jew) elected to the job.
Her mentor, the President, has downplayed the virus, questioned masks, tested little.
Her dilemma: how to protect public health without alienating a kingmaker.
One issue: 80% of the aid projects in Guatemala since 2016 were entrusted to U.S. contractors.
Those companies take a significant chunk of that taxpayer money for overhead and their own profits.
But they don’t tell the public how much. Neither does the government.
Whew. Unsealed court papers say Mexico's former defense minister was:
1. protecting cartel from military operations
2. directing military ops against rivals
3. securing "maritime transportation for drug shipments"
4. introducing cartel to other bribe-taking officials....
We took thousands of photos of the site and shared the evidence with engineers, who reached the same conclusion:
The steel studs that held the overpass together likely failed because of bad welds, a basic error.
“A good quality weld would not have failed like that,” one said.
The inquiry uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed the country.
But the US never opened a formal investigation into AMLO and shelved the inquiry (cont'd)
This appears to have been very serious assassination attempt.
The police chief targeted immediately blamed the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
This kind of thing has not been happening in Mexico City and it comes as violence is surging....
It’s a very big deal
In the document, the govt says 25% of tests were coming back positive in late November.
Here’s a report from the govt agency that calculates that figure, saying that in fact *37%* of tests were coming back positive during that period.
Regreso al buró después de casi cuatro meses de estar fuera por el nacimiento de Teo.
I’m back from maternity leave after four months with little Theo. Send tips!
🚨🚨En junio, un testigo dijo al principal fiscal anticorrupción de Guatemala que había ido a la casa del presidente y había entregado una alfombra enrollada llena de dinero.
Un mes después, el fiscal fue despedido y huyó a EE.UU. con la evidencia.
This is so moving, and not just because it’s my mom
@AnitaIsaacs
teaching these students
“It’s as though you had a front-row view on American inequality and the ways in which it was disguised and papered over”
The U.S. has spent $1.6 billion on aid to Guatemala in the last decade.
But many Guatemalans say the money is funding things they never asked for and don’t want.
“They’ve never helped me” one farmer said. “Where does all the money go?”
w
@shearm
Horrible milestone in Mexico City: yesterday broke a record for the total number of people hospitalized with Covid in the capital since the pandemic began.
4,598 covid patients in hospitals on December 13.
Source: gracias a
@LaurianneDsp
The Biden administration sent Ken Salazar —
@USAmbMex
— to Mexico with a mission: build a close relationship with the Mexican president.
But now, some in the US government are starting think Salazar has gone too far. 1/
w/
@Abihabib
Last Thursday, One of the most famous news anchors in Mexico,
@CiroGomezL
, was driving home through a wealthy enclave of Mexico City when gunmen pulled up and started shooting at his car.
He was saved by bulletproof windows.
A hunter told me he’s never giving up the right to harvest animals — but he thinks 18-year-olds should be prohibited from buying guns.
“He should never have been able to get that gun,” he said. “We should raise the age limit. We should do stronger background checks.”
What appears to be wrong with the studs?
- they sheared clean off, which shouldn’t happen if they are fused to the structure correctly
- workers left ceramic rings around them that should have been removed, again, a rudimentary error
- their placement is sloppy and irregular
En una entrevista con
@nytimes
, el líder de la comisión de la verdad cuestiona la evidencia que respalda del informe del gobierno sobre Ayotzinapa
“Hay un porcentaje importante, muy importante, que está todo invalidado,” dijo
@A_Encinas_R
Of course, if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to overturn Roe, it could have far-reaching implications — potentially empowering anti-abortion groups across the Western Hemisphere and beyond.
What you hear in the long line for an oxygen tank refill in Mexico:
“My father is at 60 percent oxygen saturation. My brother is at 50 percent saturation. My wife can no longer breathe. She’s turning blue, her lips are blue, help me.”
Ayer,
@CiroGomezL
me escribió:
"Mi único argumento en estas horas es una pregunta: en esta intemperie de agresiones del jefe del Estado mexicano, ¿el Estado mexicano puede hacer una investigación independiente? No iría más allá de eso."
Ms. Cruz is planning to shuttle Texans seeking abortions into Mexico, and to build networks to ferry abortion pills north.
“We aren’t afraid,” said Ms. Cruz. “We are willing to face criminalization, because women’s lives matter more than their law.”
“This freedom to carry, what did it do?” asked the grandfather of a little girl who died in the massacre. “It killed.”
The people we talked to in Uvalde aren’t alone.
In a February poll, 43% of Texans said they supported stricter gun laws. Just 16% wanted looser rules.
Based on initial evidence: When the train took its last journey, sections of the concrete were probably disconnected, resting atop steel beams that were never designed to carry the weight alone.
On May 3, the steel beams likely buckled inward. The span collapsed within seconds.
Why are people migrating now?
Months after two hurricanes hit Honduras, houses remain underwater. Gaping holes have replaced bridges. Thousands are still displaced.
People are living on top of the mud that buried everything they owned.
To recap: this is the president’s press secretary reading aloud a Facebook comment criticizing an article in
@elpaismexico
that noted the country had surpassed 100k covid deaths.
And you thought Trump had fun press conferences.
El Salvador achieved the unthinkable: decimating the gangs terrorizing the country.
Salvadorans overwhelmingly approve.
The cost, critics say: mass arbitrary arrests, which locked up thousands of innocents in prisons where torture has been reported.
BREAKING: Mexico’s armed forces spied on a human rights defender and journalists who were investigating allegations that soldiers had gunned down innocent people -- providing evidence of the military’s illegal spying on civilians.
with
@ronenbergman
Weeks ago, Boeing said it didn’t want federal money or the government wanted a stake in the company.
Now the company is trying to make a deal. It could become one of the largest recipients of stimulus $$$.
With
@kenvogel
As Latin America becomes an epicenter of the pandemic, public officials and local entrepreneurs are cashing in on the crisis by colluding to overcharge hospitals for supplies that are so poorly made they're useless.
With
@mitrataj