Corpses, body parts strewn across Mexico’s Monterrey in spate of violence
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Mutilated corpses and severed body parts were found dumped in seven locations across the metropolitan area of the Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday in a spate of violence that unnerved residents of Mexico’s industrial capital. Authorities said they are still analysing the dismembered body parts to try to identify how many […]
Wow!: Bike desks help Mexican students learn while burning calories
DANIEL BECERRIL, of Reuters, reports from Public High School 24…
Extreme heat: How ‘chief heat officers’ keep cities cool as the world warms
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how more and more cities are creating the new role as hotter summers cause surging health problems and economic pain in urban areas…
Dams, taps running dry in northern Mexico amid historic water shortages
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Her elderly neighbour is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water? She had – and it wasn’t just her. The taps across this working-class neighbourhood of Sierra Ventana dried […]
Water inequality: As taps run dry, Mexican drought fuels anger over access
DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how strict rationing has left millions of Monterrey residents without tap water for hours or days at a time, fuelling long-standing anger over water concessions that favour big companies…