By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, Jun 24 (EFE).- Turnout for Saturday’s LGBT Pride March in Mexico City was the largest since before the Covid-19 pandemic against a backdrop of an increase in hate crimes and amid grassroots unease about the corporatization of the event. Under the banner “Liberty, justice, and dignity, They will never …
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, May 19 (EFE).- A Mexican woman who earlier this week was sentenced to more than six years in prison for killing her rapist in an act of “excessive” self-defense told Efe in an interview that she has been punished with prison time for the act of resisting sexual assault. …
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, Sep 19 (EFE).- Feelings of abandonment and neglect persist five years after a powerful earthquake battered the Mexican capital. Among those left homeless by the Sept. 19, 2017, Puebla earthquake, more than 23 percent still are without a permanent residence of their own, according to official figures, while others …
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, Sep 19 (EFE).- A magnitude-7.7 earthquake rocked central Mexico and caused at least one death on Monday, the anniversary of a pair of devastating temblors that occurred in 1985 and 2017. The quake, whose epicenter was located 63 kilometers (39 miles) south of Coalcoman in the western state of …
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes Mexico City, Sep 7 (EFE).- Some clear strides have been made in the year since Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that decriminalizing abortion is unconstitutional, but that medical procedure is still not accessible nationwide and more work remains to be done to promote womens’ sexual and reproductive rights, activists told Efe. The …