Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, Trump campaign signs dot the desert landscape, and Trump flags fly from the backs of dusty pickup trucks. Last fall, an event called Trumpstock outside the town of Kingman featured a President Trump impersonator, a pro-Trump rapper and a menu of “MAGA Subs.” Last month, thousands of people blasted classic rock and circled Lake Havasu in a Trump-themed “This whole area is based around people who have the same thing in common,” said Alan Morris, a 36-year-old who participated in the parade....…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, Trump campaign signs dot the desert landscape, and Trump flags fly from the backs of dusty pickup trucks. Last fall, an event called Trumpstock outside the town of Kingman featured a President Trump impersonator, a pro-Trump rapper and a menu of “MAGA Subs.” Last month, thousands of people blasted classic rock and circled Lake Havasu in a Trump-themed “This whole area is based around people who have the same thing in common,” said Alan Morris, a 36-year-old who participated in the parade....WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. Born and raised in Brazil’s drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of work. He was hired as a janitor; she began selling meals on the street, and soon they were bringing in $280 a month — enough to start saving to one day build a house back home.The novel coronavirus pushed that dream out of reach. Lima, who has diabetes and heart problems, putting her at higher risk of dying if she contracts the virus, stopped working once the pandemic took...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. Born and raised in Brazil’s drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of work. He was hired as a janitor; she began selling meals on the street, and soon they were bringing in $280 a month — enough to start saving to one day build a house back home.The novel coronavirus pushed that dream out of reach. Lima, who has diabetes and heart problems, putting her at higher risk of dying if she contracts the virus, stopped working once the pandemic took...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Each winter, some of Mexico’s wealthiest residents flock to the snowy slopes of Colorado to ski, shop and socialize.This year, at least 14 — and probably many more — came home infected with the coronavirus.In a country that has not yet been hard hit by , the travelers have become a focal point of efforts to prevent the virus from spreading widely.Several of Mexico’s most prominent business leaders — including a banking executive, the chairman of Mexico’s stock exchange and the chief executive of the company that makes Jose Cuervo...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Each winter, some of Mexico’s wealthiest residents flock to the snowy slopes of Colorado to ski, shop and socialize.This year, at least 14 — and probably many more — came home infected with the coronavirus.In a country that has not yet been hard hit by , the travelers have become a focal point of efforts to prevent the virus from spreading widely.Several of Mexico’s most prominent business leaders — including a banking executive, the chairman of Mexico’s stock exchange and the chief executive of the company that makes Jose Cuervo...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement After a string of gruesome killings of women, feminist activists here began wondering: What if we all just disappeared?Mexico is about to find out. Women across the country are being urged to skip work next Monday, stay off the streets and purchase nothing for 24 hours.The March 9 national strike, which is being promoted as #UNDIASINMUJERES, or “a day without women,” is meant to deliver an economic punch to cast light on what activists describe as a crisis of violence.“We want to make visible the violence that women suffer in every...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement After a string of gruesome killings of women, feminist activists here began wondering: What if we all just disappeared?Mexico is about to find out. Women across the country are being urged to skip work next Monday, stay off the streets and purchase nothing for 24 hours.The March 9 national strike, which is being promoted as #UNDIASINMUJERES, or “a day without women,” is meant to deliver an economic punch to cast light on what activists describe as a crisis of violence.“We want to make visible the violence that women suffer in every...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Juan Manuel Briones was 14 when he started working in the coal mines in this remote stretch of northern Mexico. He toiled underground for nearly two decades, only to be laid off a few years ago as Mexico began embracing renewable energy and weaning itself off fossil fuels. Briones worried the future had left him behind. Then, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in late 2018 and started turning back the clock.The president has new renewable projects, mocked wind farms as “fans” that blight the landscape, and poured money into state...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Juan Manuel Briones was 14 when he started working in the coal mines in this remote stretch of northern Mexico. He toiled underground for nearly two decades, only to be laid off a few years ago as Mexico began embracing renewable energy and weaning itself off fossil fuels. Briones worried the future had left him behind. Then, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in late 2018 and started turning back the clock.The president has new renewable projects, mocked wind farms as “fans” that blight the landscape, and poured money into state...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Volatile protests engulfed Mexico’s capital on Monday as police clashed with thousands of feminist activists calling for an end to what they say is a crisis of violence against women here. In Mexico City’s central square, known as the Zócalo, police tear-gassed protesters who defaced city office buildings and used crowbars and hammers to tear down parts of a 12-foot-tall steel barrier erected around the National Palace, the center of Mexico’s federal government and the home of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Authorities said...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Volatile protests engulfed Mexico’s capital on Monday as police clashed with thousands of feminist activists calling for an end to what they say is a crisis of violence against women here. In Mexico City’s central square, known as the Zócalo, police tear-gassed protesters who defaced city office buildings and used crowbars and hammers to tear down parts of a 12-foot-tall steel barrier erected around the National Palace, the center of Mexico’s federal government and the home of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Authorities said...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | After hearing that her 44-year-old son had been in downtown Tijuana, Guadalupe Aragón Sosa went searching for him.She gave police a sample of her DNA, but they said they found no hits when they checked it against a database of unidentified bodies. She spent hours at the local morgue, flipping through black-and-white photographs of unclaimed corpses, but her Carlos was not among them.Advertisement She scoured fields and garbage dumps on the outskirts of town where local thugs were known to bury their victims, probing the soil with a metal rod in...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | After hearing that her 44-year-old son had been in downtown Tijuana, Guadalupe Aragón Sosa went searching for him.She gave police a sample of her DNA, but they said they found no hits when they checked it against a database of unidentified bodies. She spent hours at the local morgue, flipping through black-and-white photographs of unclaimed corpses, but her Carlos was not among them.Advertisement She scoured fields and garbage dumps on the outskirts of town where local thugs were known to bury their victims, probing the soil with a metal rod in...WW…

Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementAs a candidate for president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador Mexico’s armed forces and the “mafia of power” that he said controlled them. He accused soldiers of human rights abuses in the country’s bloody drug war and publicly clashed with Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, then secretary of defense.But after taking office, López Obrador changed his tune, embracing the same military leaders he had once bashed.After Cienfuegos at Los Angeles International Airport last month and charged with drug trafficking, the president rushed to his...…Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementAs a candidate for president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador Mexico’s armed forces and the “mafia of power” that he said controlled them. He accused soldiers of human rights abuses in the country’s bloody drug war and publicly clashed with Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, then secretary of defense.But after taking office, López Obrador changed his tune, embracing the same military leaders he had once bashed.After Cienfuegos at Los Angeles International Airport last month and charged with drug trafficking, the president rushed to his...WW…