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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has spoken with the presidents of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, which has also nationalized lithium.
May 3, 2022
The head of an organization representing Sonoran restaurants says some changes could be coming soon.
May 3, 2022
Amped up commercial vehicle inspections implemented at the border by Texas Governor Greg Abbott last month were short lived. But the economic and political fallout continues.
May 2, 2022
Officials in neighboring Sonora say the arrival of a direct commercial flight will boost tourism in one of the state’s most popular beach destinations: Rocky Point.
May 2, 2022
A centuries-old neighborhood in the Sonoran capital Hermosillo is looking to preserve its historic character — and get national recognition. A group formed by residents last fall first hopes to get a similar designation from state tourism officials.
May 2, 2022
Event organizer Startup Unidos has held a number of such events, but this is the first in-person event since the start of the pandemic.
April 29, 2022
A small but growing group of extreme athletes in neighboring Sonora has turned some of the state’s most stunning natural features into proving grounds, where they push their bodies — and nerves — to their limits.
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April 29, 2022
A new report looks at the way Haitian asylum seekers have been treated in Mexico as the result of both U.S. and Mexican policies that fail to recognize them as refugees.
April 28, 2022
Mexico is renewing an energy subsidy to help Sonorans with the high costs of electricity during the scorching summer months, and the president says he’s looking to make that assistance permanent.
April 28, 2022
Conservation groups are suing the Mexican government in order to halt construction on a tourist train through the Maya forest in southern Mexico. Parts of the project have moved forward without the usual environmental assessments.
April 27, 2022
As Mexico confronts what has been called a crisis of disappearances across the country, the lower house of Congress this week unanimously approved a measure to create a new agency to search for and identify the missing.
April 27, 2022
Mexico's president and top diplomat both disputed the account, and said the statements were campaign rhetoric.
April 26, 2022
Data for the first quarter of 2022 showed a much more substantial drop in femicides, or the murder of women because of their gender.
April 25, 2022
A state deputy said an unattended campfire is being investigated as a possible cause, and said the incident shows the importance of raising awareness about responsible behavior in the state's wild areas.
April 25, 2022
Last week, members of the Phoenix Sister Cities program drove to neighboring Sonora, Mexico, to deliver medical supplies to a children’s burn unit in Hermosillo. Phoenix and Hermosillo have shared a Sister City relationship since 1976.
April 25, 2022
The $2.1 billion natural gas liquefaction plant will be built on roughly 250 acres of state-owned land.
April 22, 2022
A new report from the advocacy group Human Rights First documents the harm asylum seekers face in U.S. detention facilities. The group is calling for the Biden administration to stop detaining people seeking refuge in the United States.
April 21, 2022
The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico ended in tragedy Friday, after her body was found in a subterranean water tank at a motel.
April 21, 2022
On the geographical margins of two countries, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands share a culture of their own. But many people who live there feel common narratives fail to grasp the realities of life there. But a team of women artists known as Las Fronterizas is working to change that narrative by highlighting love in the region.
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April 21, 2022
Mexico’s Senate has passed a bill that will nationalize lithium mining in the country. Sonoran leaders are touting that as a win for the state.
April 20, 2022
