James Fredrick
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In Mexico, state governments are outlawing the sale of junk food to minors because high rates of obesity and diabetes have led to increased deaths from COVID-19.
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Low earners have been doubly hit: They make up the highest share of virus-related deaths and lack the funds to stay afloat as the pandemic plunges Mexico deeper into recession.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nickea Bradley, Houston's deputy director for emergency management, about the challenges of preparing for hurricane season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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After Mexican officials fought to stop a migrant caravan from entering, Saury Vallecilla Ortega was temporarily separated from her youngest child and feared for the worst.
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President Trump says he's going to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists. Mexico is alarmed, saying this could violate their national sovereignty and complicate relations between the neighbors.
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The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later.
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Threatened with U.S. tariffs, Mexico agreed to step up migrant control, deploying a new security force, and catching and deporting more migrants. Here's how it's going.
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Mexico has significantly increased the number of National Guard forces at its southern border with Guatemala. The question: has it succeeded in slowing the flow of migrants trying to reach the U.S.?
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Mexico pledged to ramp up immigration enforcement and let asylum-seekers wait on its side of the border. But on its own southern border, migrant detention centers are already overcrowded.
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Thousands of Central American migrants who have traveled weeks to get to the U.S. border are in Tijuana facing an uncertain future. Mexicans there resent them and the asylum process could take months.