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    In the mid-1980s, a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilization that had once ruled over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, discovered a pattern: a near-perfect ring of sinkholes -cenotes- about 200 kilometers across, encircling the Yucatecan capital, Merida, and port towns of Sisal and Progreso. A pattern created by an ancient asteroid explosion that one young NASA scientist thought may yield clues to the lost oce...

Listen • 6:58 A smuggler bypasses the border crossing in the town of Corinto and leads a pair of migrants on a footpath through a farm that leads from Honduras to Guatemala. Joining the exodus of Hondurans fleeing their benighted homeland, Luis Alberto Enrique and his family search for the unmarked footpath into Guatemala to begin their dangerous, 1,500-mile journey to the Texas border. As they walk through the border town of Corinto on a humid morning last month, his two ...

at 9:54 am NPR Joining the exodus of Hondurans fleeing their benighted homeland, Luis Alberto Enrique and his family search for the unmarked footpath into Guatemala to begin their dangerous, 1,500-mile journey to the Texas border. As they walk through the border town of Corinto on a humid morning last month, his two young daughters tote pink Disney backpacks and their favorite stuffed animals. Enrique says he heard the United States is no longer turning migrants back. "I hear...

Port Manatee-based World Direct Shipping deploys third vessel Sarasota Herald-Tribune World Direct Shipping, a cargo carrier that imports fruits and vegetables, sugar, appliances and household products to the U.S. from Mexico, expanded its operations at Palmettos Port Manatee this week by adding a third company-owned vessel to its fleet. The company, which launched at Port Manatee in 2014 with a single vessel on one weekly service, on Wednesday christened the M/V Queen B III, the latest add...

BusinessWorld May 5, 2021 | 7:27 pm By Giselle Juliane Recently, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) released its tax campaign jingle “Para sa Pilipino” with the following lyrics: Sino pa ba ang tutugon Para sabay-sabay ang pagbangon Sama-sama sa hamon ng panahon (Who else will answer the call/to bring everyone up together/Progress is our ambition/Hand in hand we meet the challenge of the times) As the words suggest, everyone has to pay their share to fund economic ...

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site Honduras’ Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve occupies a large portion of the country’s eastern region. However, despite official protection and recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Río Plátano is plagued by deforestation; satellite data show the biosphere reserve lost 13% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2020. Deforestation shot up in 2020, nearly doubling the amount of forest loss over 2019. 2...

PROGRESO - Distance runner Rudy Sandoval signed his letter of intent on Monday to join Ranger College in Ranger Texas after a stellar cross country and track and field career at Progreso High. Sandoval is a two-time regional champion and two-time state qualifier. He will be representing Progreso at the state track meet in the 800m run in an attempt to win his first state title.

Flores Reynaldo, 33, of Progreso, Texas was arrested by Arkansas State Troopers on Thursday afternoon following a five hour stand-off with law enforcement officers near Hope. Reynaldo is charged with aggravated assault and is being held at the Hempstead County Detention Center. State troopers were called to the Arkansas Department of Transportation weight station along Interstate 30 in Hempstead County about 9:15 a.m. after Reynaldo barricaded himself inside the sleeper compartment of a commerc...

Fugitive surrenders after stand-off with police in Hempstead County (Source: Gray Image Bank) By Daffney Dawson | April 8, 2021 at 9:45 PM CDT - Updated April 8 at 9:45 PM HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, Ark. (KSLA) - According to Arkansas State Troopers, a man has been arrested after a five hour stand-off with law enforcement near Hope, Ark. Flores Reynaldo, 33, of Progreso, Texas, is charged with aggravated assault and is being held at the Hempstead County Detention Center. State troopers were calle...

Women were instrumental in the Revolution to achieve progress with fairness. They fought alongside their men and also provided some of the comforts of home to the soldiers, including food, clean clothes, and sexual services. Although women were clearly part of the Revolution, they did not benefit as much from it as did the working class in the cities for example. Soldaderas and the Mexican Revolution Women fought on the battlefield during the Mexican Revolution. Soldaderas or female soldiers...