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With satellite imagery and other modern tools, much of the globe is comprehensively mapped out at this point – but there are still plenty of secrets hidden in the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world.A team of archaeologists has been rewarded for trekking some 60 kilometers (37 miles) into the dense Yucatan Peninsula jungles of southern Mexico: they've discovered a long-lost ancient Maya city that there are no previous records of.The new city has been named Ocomtún, which means "stone column". The sprawling…

Tzeltal Maya women attend a mass wedding celebration in Zinacantan, Mexico, in March 2023. Credit: SL-Photography/Shutterstock Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you're looking for work. Being able to speak…

Mexico City —  A current and former employee at a luxury hotel in Mexico where two Americans were found dead this week said managers of the resort ignored repeated signs of a possible gas leak and disabled carbon monoxide detectors to stop their alarms from disturbing guests.Ricardo Carbajal, a former night manager at Rancho Pescadero, a $600-a-night beachfront boutique hotel owned by Hyatt, said carbon monoxide detectors sounded frequently over a period of about three months late last year, likely because of leaks in a…

It would seem that megalodons are the menace of the moment. These ginormous sharks, thought to be extinct for millions of years, have been retro-spawned for entertainment purposes by the audiovisual-industrial complex – specifically in the Meg franchise but also on the Discovery Channel – because great white sharks, veterans of the Jaws movies, just don’t cut it any more. Still, in thematic terms there’s a throughline that connects most shark movies: one way or another, they’re all about the return of the repressed, with…

Farmers yelled their pitches for fruits and vegetables in English and Spanish. A hot-sauce seller offered samples. The synth-heavy melodies of duranguense swirled from someone’s speaker.The Central Avenue Farmers’ Market in South Los Angeles was popping. “The mix of Black and Latino cultures here is beautiful, so we need to nourish their dreams,” said Alejandro Corona, who runs the market for Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles, a nonprofit. Every Thursday, vendors set up in the courtyard and nearby sidewalk…

It's not unusual to hear of countries using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to surveil the public, but there are now concerns one government is spying on itself. Sources for The New York Times and The Washington Post claim Pegasus has been found on the phone of Mexico undersecretary for human rights Alejandro Encinas, a longtime ally of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as well as at least two members of Encinas' office. While there's no firm evidence pointing to a culprit, this comes as Encinas has been investigating…

When we first meet Valeria (Natalia Solián), we see her as a young wife literally praying to become a mother. But her joy in discovering she’ll be having a child with husband Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) is curiously guarded—and supernatural forces soon begin to hasten the splintering of her domestic facade.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesHuesera: The Bone Woman is from Mexico—it’s the accomplished debut feature of director and co-writer (with Abia Castillo) Michelle Garza…

Population continuity and ghost genetic ancestries in pre-Hispanic Mexico. Ancient individuals who inhabited the northern frontier of Mesoamerica (NFM) before and after a 200-year period of severe droughts (shown in timeline) belong to a continuous population. This is in contrast to a previous hypothesis suggesting that hunter-gatherers from Aridoamerica replaced the populations at the NFM following the southward shift of its limits with Mesoamerica…

There are some nasty scares in this chiller from Mexican film-maker Michelle Garza Cervera who is making her feature debut: a horror film that doubles as a parable of post-partum depression, something with the creeping anxiety of Polanski’s Repulsion or Rosemary’s Baby.Valeria (Natalia Solián) is a young woman who is longing to have a baby with her supportive partner Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) and when Valeria gets pregnant, she couldn’t be happier, or so she thinks. Her sister – married, with children in which Valeria has…

On Feb. 16, 2022, the members of Grupo Frontera posted their first YouTube video as a band: a live, laid-back cumbia cover of the 2007 mariachi smash “Estos Celos,” as written by Joan Sebastian and performed by Vicente Fernandez.In the year since Grupo Frontera’s inception, the Rio Grande Valley players have made enormous strides — not just for themselves but for the regional Mexican genre, which is enjoying more fanfare than ever before.In April, the group made magic with Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, in their joint…