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Organizers Apologize After Hosting Electronic Music Concert Inside a Cenote
Photographs of an electronic music concert inside a cenote have sparked outrage in Yucatán. Social media posts shared during the event show attendees, DJs and sound and lighting rigs inside the cenote. Authorities have not disclosed the cenote’s location, but event organizers…
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Love Vine Threatens Shrubs That Hold Yucatán’s Dunes Together
A vine with stems as thin as thread is spreading across the coastal dunes of northern Yucatán, and scientists say it is weakening the very shrubs that keep the sand in place. The plant, Cassytha filiformis, wraps itself around host shrubs and taps into them for water and…
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Papa John’s Pushes Into Mérida’s Crowded Pizza Market
Papa John’s wants a bigger slice of the Yucatán Peninsula, and it isn’t planning to get there by selling the cheapest pizza in town. At least one new Papa John’s — or Papayons as it’s playfully spelled in Mexico — was spotted under construction. The photo was shared widely on…
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The True Conquistadors? How the Tlaxcaltecas Changed Mexican History
The Tlaxcaltecas were a resilient and highly organized society that played a central role in the fall of the Aztec Empire.
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Sonora Grill Exits Yucatán After Bribery Feud
Sonora Grill, the steakhouse that accused Yucatán health inspectors of seeking a bribe last year, has closed its Mérida restaurant and left the state, according to a columnist for the local news site Sol Yucatán. José Luis Sierra Villareal made the claim in a column published…
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A Flamingo Named Víctor Reveals Key Stops on Yucatán’s Coast
A Caribbean flamingo named Víctor has given researchers a bird’s-eye view of how Yucatán’s coastline fits together. Fitted with a satellite tracker, the bird flew 262 kilometers, or about 163 miles, between the Ría Celestún and Ría Lagartos biosphere reserves, the two best-known…
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Mérida’s New Code Recognizes Animals as Sentient Beings
Mérida’s City Council has unanimously approved a new animal protection code that recognizes animals as sentient beings and gives city officials more power to step in when pets are neglected or abused. The Regulation for the Protection and Welfare of Fauna was approved in an…
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Floating Altars Light Up Sisal for Hanal Pixán
In Sisal, the souls arrive by water. On Friday night, hundreds of people gathered at the edge of the ciénega, the marshy lagoon at the entrance to the port, to watch candlelit altars drift past on chalanas — small, flat-bottomed boats that a guide pushes along with a single…
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From Secret Altars to Public Shrines: Understanding the Rise of La Santa Muerte
Long before Spanish colonization, ancient Mesoamerican societies viewed life and death as complementary forces that kept the universe in balance. The Aztecs, for example, honored the rulers of Mictlan, the underworld realm souls traveled to after death. While these ancient…
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Why Mexico’s Army Is Destroying Toy Guns in Mérida
Mexico’s Defense Ministry has destroyed 2,832 toy guns at an army base in Mérida, a symbolic act meant to steer children away from violence early. The ceremony took place at the 7th Combat Engineer Battalion, the military post on Calle 42 Sur, as part of the federal campaign Sí…
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Tourists Have Questions After Being Taxed at Cancún Airport
Foreign travelers leaving Cancún International Airport say collection booths in Terminal 2 are asking up to MX$550 (about US$30) per person for the Visitax, Quintana Roo’s tourist fee. That is nearly double the rate the state promised for 2026. Three tourists from Costa Rica…
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From Oil Lamps to LEDs: Mérida Museum Traces the Story of Light
For most of human history, light was expensive. A small clay lamp burning olive oil could keep the dark away for a few hours, but only families with money could afford enough oil to use it every night. That lamp, a design dating to the first century, is where visitors begin at…
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Mexico Takes Its Sargassum Fight Offshore With 17 Navy Ships and a Big Budget
Mexico’s federal government is reformulating the fight against sargassum surges by capturing it before it washes ashore. The new approach to combating sargassum shifts from reactive shoreline raking to aggressive offshore capture. Plans include expanding the naval fleet to 17…
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Yucatán Opens 1st ‘Pink Room’ for Breast Cancer Recovery
María de los Ángeles Villa Hernández survived breast cancer. On Wednesday, she spoke at the opening of a room built for women facing the part that comes after treatment. DIF Yucatán, the state’s family services agency, opened Yucatán’s first Cuarto Rosa, or Pink Room, at the…
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Fewer Babies, Older State: Yucatán’s Population Is Aging Fast
Yucatán’s birth rate is among the lowest in Mexico. A generation ago, Yucatán families were bigger than the national average. Today, the state’s birth rate sits at 1.10 children per woman, among the lowest in Mexico and far below the 2.1 needed to keep the population stable. The…
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Dr. Simi Brings His Coffee Shop to Mérida, a First for Southeast Mexico
Farmacias Similares, long established as Mexico’s primary provider of low-cost generic pharmaceuticals, has expanded its commercial footprint far beyond medicine. The company recently announced the arrival of its specialty coffee brand, Café Simi, in Mérida’s Altabrisa…