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BBC launches a 10-hour video of “Relaxing Oceanscapes”, including Mexican coastline

BBC released a 10-hour video on YouTube with a “journey through the place where two worlds collide”. The video shows images from dozens of places around the globe, including Mexico, as the country has 11,122 km of continental coastline washed by two large oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic, both to the Gulf of Mexico […]

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Taco Bell restaurants, chosen as the “America’s favorite Mexican” ones

According to a new EquiTrend survey, Taco Bell is the favorite “Mexican restaurant” among Americans, ahead of Chipotle and Moe’s Southwest Grill. In this way, the fast food chain wins the “Brand of the Year” award for the first time in the history of this prestigious survey launched by Harris 30 years ago, which measures […]

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Mexican skiers and their flashy Day of Deads uniforms

The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games have begun. Mexican athletes do not have much chance of winning medals, but they are standing out with their eccentric uniforms. The skiers Sarah Schleper, Rodolfo Dickson, Robert Franco and Germán Madrazo will compete in a black outfit decorated with skulls that allude to the famous Day of Deads […]

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The world’s cheapest electricity is in Mexico, coming from the solar power plants which won the last energy auction

Last week, Mexico held their last energy auction, to secure part of the electricity which consumers will waste over the next years. According to official sources, the average value of the prices of the winning projects was 20.57 dollars per megawatt hour. It was a significant decrease from the last price of 33.47 USD/MWh of […]

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Spanish rescuers helping after Mexico’s earthquake: “We will stay for as long as it takes to do our job”

This post is a tribute to the Spanish Armed Forces and their Military Emergencies Unit, whose members lent support to the people of Mexico after the earthquake of September 19, 2017. ¡Muchas gracias, compañeros! After the 7.1-degree earthquake of Mexico of 19 September, several countries sent their rescue and relief teams to help to search […]

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Child unintentionally swallows a toy’s whistle

It happened in Tucuman (Argentina) but it could have happened in Mexico. One kid who was playing with a toy, took out the whistle, put it into his mouth, and accidentally swallowed it. The whistle placed between the larynx and the trachea, and when breathing, the whistle sounded. The child finally was carried to a […]

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From Mexico to Spain in less than hour, by rocket

Elon Musk proposes city-to-city travel by rocket, right here on Earth. “Anywhere on Earth in under an hour”, according to the business magnate. During the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled new plans to travel to the moon and Mars. But he ended his presentation with an incredible promise: by […]

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After Mexico’s earthquake, someone stole the credit card from a dead young woman and spent her savings

Someone stole 33,000 Mexican pesos (1,800 US dollars) from the account of Alejandra, who died in the 7.1-degree earthquake of September 2017, through purchases in Zara and Best Buy. “I lost everything: my house and my daughter Alejandra. And moreover, after she died in the earthquake, she was robbed of her savings of 33,000 pesos, […]

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After the energy auction in UK, offshore wind power is 38% cheaper than new nuclear

On Monday morning, UK Government announced the official outcomes of the second auction of renewable energy. The cost of winning offshore wind projects (57.50 pounds per megawatt hour) are now 50% lower than the first auction held in 2015. This auction allocated 15-year contracts for the winning projects, to give certainty for clean-energy investors and […]

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Mayor of a Mexican city creates a ‘I will survive’ theme video to deliver the annual report

The Municipality of Río Bravo, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, has 118,259 inhabitants and Juan Diego Guajardo is the mayor since 2016. This year Guajardo had to deliver this first annual report to show the achievements of this first year in office, and he produced the following material, using the hit by Gloria Gaynor, […]