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What’s polluting Mexico’s groundwater?

Mexico has experienced a water crisis for the last decade due to a combination of factors.  Drought, overexploitation, inadequate infrastructure, mismanagement of water supplies and contamination have all stolen the headlines at one point or another.  Despite record dryness, however, poor rainfall and overexploitation of aquifers are far from the only issues facing the Mexican […]

Pets Join Mexico’s Day Of The Dead Celebrations

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Pets are not forgotten during Mexico’s famed Day of the Dead celebrations, when even Fido and Tiger get a place at the altars Mexican families set up to honor their deceased loved ones, complete with flowers, candles and photographs. Though the human dead usually get their favorite food or drink placed […]

How Researchers Are Using Geospatial Technology to Uncover Mexico’s Clandestine Graves

In 2014, after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas in Mexico, Silván and other CentroGeo professionals joined the scientific advisory board on the case. During the search for the students, different civilian groups and government brigades detected dozens of illegal graves. In less than 10 months, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office counted 60 sites and […]

‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?

On the outskirts of Puebla in central Mexico sits an area on the Atoyac River known as Nueva Alemania, or “New Germany”. Between two factories, under-construction houses pepper streets with names such as Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kiel, Hanover and Berlin. New Germany is part of a broader region, an industrial district covering about 4,000 square kilometres […]

Mexico’s Vampire Witch Has a Twisted Origin Story

Perched in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, a day’s drive northeast of Mexico City, the village of Chicontepec keeps the lore of a Mesoamerican monster alive. Details of this ancient creature are shared only in hushed whispers, in stories told behind closed doors—doors that are, ideally, guarded by hanging garlic. Beware the teyollohcuani, a […]