Photo: Salvatore Salamone
It took a few beats from their hit single ‘Somos Pacifico’ to have the crowd up in arms, waving fists at a stage in an ebb and flow, and jostling for space on the dance floor. On a wet night in the Colombian capital, ChocQuibTown are the headlining act at a private show with vocalists Slow, Goyo and Tostao doing what they do best: Sing to a full house.
ChocQuibTown is one of the most innovative bands to emerge in recent years from Colombia, captivating fans with a blend of Hip-Hop,
salsa and marimba-infused rhythms. The fusion of sound is part social inclusion, part digital innovation, from a group whose roots originate in the Colombian Pacific and a department of staunch Afro traditions.
As COVID-19 deaths increase, Mexican bishops announce focus on prevention A municipal worker pushes himself up from a freshly dug grave at the El Centinela Cemetery in Mexicali, Mexico, Jan. 30 during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Victor Medina, Reuters)
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select Bishop Eugenio Lira RugarcÃa of Matamoros, Mexico, celebrates Mass Jan. 9 in a Matamoros camp for asylum-seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border. The bishop says health precautions such as limiting attendance at Mass have kept COVID-19 cases low and allowed churches to stay open. (CNS photo/David Agren) MEXICO CITY The Mexican bishops conference announced a month focused on health issues such as mask use, social distancing and other measures to reinforce the basics of staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign also will promote vaccinations against the coronavirus and urge
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Biden and AMLO: Reset or Disaster
January 20, 2021 Andrés Manuel López Obrador, left, and Joseph BidenHector Vivas/Getty Images; Jim Watson/AFP
MEXICO CITY – Mexico and the United States find themselves on the cusp of an unusual power transition in Washington, one that has put the future of the bilateral relationship in doubt. Mexico has been forced to navigate four years of the most anti-Mexican administration in recent memory, and Joe Biden’s inauguration thus represents a unique opportunity for both countries to reset their relationship and approach issues such as trade, immigration and security from a new perspective, burying the dismal legacy of Donald Trump. Still, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, widely known as AMLO, has already sent a series of confusing messages to the Biden team. Both sides will need to tread carefully in order to avoid a disaster.
On Thursday night Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced it was completely absolving Cienfuegos, the defense chief under the former president Enrique Peña Nieto between 2012 and 2018. It claimed its investigators had found the 72-year-old general had neither met nor communicated with “any criminal group”.
Mexico’s nationalist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is heavily reliant on the military, defended the move at one of his daily early morning press conferences on Friday.
López Obrador, who is best known as Amlo, insisted his government opposed impunity and corruption – but nor were “retaliation” or “revenge” acceptable. “You can just invent crimes,” Amlo added, accusing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of “fabricating” evidence against Cienfuegos.