Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum will be elected mayor of Mexico City, according to exit polls from Sundayâs local and national elections in Mexico. Sheinbaum will be the first woman elected mayor of Mexicoâs capital and the most populous city in North America. She will also be Mexico Cityâs first Jewish mayor.
Itâs been hard to write or think about anything but Mexico City this week. Another 6.1 earthquake has hit Mexico this (Saturday) morning, swaying already-shaky buildings just after a 7.1 magnitude quake ruptured about 100 miles south of the city on Tuesday.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh has traveled all over with "Stop Telling Women to Smile," in which she wheatpastes the streets with portraits of women captioned with anti-harassment messages. In a comprehensive new series spearheaded by Fusion's Anna Holmes (and the founder of this very website), Fazlalizadeh takes her workâŚ
It's a ritual many dog owners are familiar with: picking up your dog's waste off the street like it's totally not disgusting at all. It is disgusting, of course, but what's even more disgusting is leaving the poop on the sidewalk for other people to see and/or step in. Still, there are plenty of dog owners who refuseâŚ
Here's a story that really tests the limits of the five-second rule. A heart was being transported to a hospital in Mexico City to be transplanted into a patient there. After it was unloaded from the helicopter outside the hospital, the lid of the cooler it was in came loose, and the heart feel out onto the street.âŚ
Here's yet another reason why conservatives should stop freaking out about the push to legalize gay marriage: It could be so much worse. In 2009, liberal lawmakers made Mexico City the first Latin American city to legalize gay marriage. Now they want to introduce two-year marriages that would allow couples to eitherâŚ
To "promote gay-friendly tourism in Mexico City," the tourism minister has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed in Argentina, which yesterday became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Casa Xochiquetzal is a home for aging sex workers in Mexico City's Merced red light district. But don't call it a retirement community â many of these women are very much part of the workforce!
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It turns out Mexico City is more progressive than most U.S. states: Yesterday marriage was redefined in the city's civil code as "the free uniting of two people," making it the first Latin American city to legalize gay marriage. [Telegraph]
