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By Roberto Ramirez MEXICO CITY, May 24 (Reuters) - Wiping away dust from bookshelves and mopping grimy floors, teachers and parents across Mexico are sprucing up vandalised schools ahead of the nationwide reopening on June 7. Mexico has kept state schools shut since March 2020, when students and teachers abandoned them after the coronavirus pandemic triggered the first nationwide lockdown. Since then, between 40% to 50% of all Mexican schools have reported vandalism or theft, according to trade union officials. "We come to support the school so that everything is clean for the return of child...

Activists paint barriers with names of female victims of violence in Mexico Reuters 3/7/2021 By David Alire Garcia and Roberto Ramirez © Reuters/HENRY ROMERO Women paint the names of victims of femicide in Mexico on fences placed outside the National Palace ahead of a Women's Day protest, in Mexico City By David Alire Garcia and Roberto Ramirez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The names of women victimized by violence were painted late on Saturday on metal barriers erected around Mexico's national palace ahead of a major women's march as activists turned the fencing into a makes...

Luis Miranda (Courtesy of HBO) New York — Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the smash hit musical "Hamilton," is practically a household name. And as a theater enthusiast who has long admired his work, I've had a peripheral knowledge of his father, Luis. It's hard to watch any interview with Lin without detecting his father's influence on him and, very often, Luis is seen in the background cheering on his son. Now, the release of a new HBO documentary, "Siempre, Luis," puts the father center stage. Long before his son was in the spotlight, Luis Miranda made a name for himsel...

so they can try to get the construction done through the summer season. >> two aspects to that, the faaizatifaa authorization act has a frame work of which we priorityize cold weather airports and we are working on the impmentation of that. and what we are doing right now is making those determinations of where do we have an airport with a short construction season that has a specific need to get something done quickly and we are making those a priority as we move through the system in recognition of the unique circumstances they face. >> okay, good, because you came in the summer, o...

prices that keep financial institutions weak. the things that they have on their books, their loans, aren't actually worth what they say they are. weak financial institutions don't lend. this is what was referred to in japan in the 1990s as zombie banks. i had a lot of fun in the congressional oversight panel asking tim geithner if citigroup and bank of america were zombie banks. no question in my mind that they a are. now we come to the bad policy. government austerity policies meaning cuts in public spending cut back on public investment. they lay off public workers, teachers, fire...