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The growing popularity of magic mushrooms outside of Mexico has spurred a debate over who should have access to them and whether science and indigenous medicine can be reconciled
At the southernmost tip of Argentina’s Patagonia sits ‘the prison of the end of the world.’ The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.
In Papantla, Mexico, once a major vanilla-producing city, the spice is still strongly tied to people’s identity.
Vanilla is deeply rooted in the identity of Papantla, a city in eastern Mexico where reinas of festivals are anointed with a vanilla-made crown.
Children across Mexico grow up learning the voladores ritual, where they fly around a 100-foot tree.
Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei has shown public interest in Judaism, incorporating shofars at campaign rallies and visiting a rabbi’s tomb.
After deadly Hurricane Otis made landfall in Mexico, communication with Acapulco was still mostly down. Hundreds of thousands were without electricity.
Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, bringing 165 mph winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and nearby towns.
Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidency in a landslide, but now he faces what’s widely considered to be election interference.
Mexico election: The two women frontrunners in the race for president both invoke gender and a cracking glass ceiling. So why are some feminists skeptical?
