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In tonight's edition of #Elections2020 Anxiety Baking, we're going to see how many batches of cookies it takes for Georgia to count its remaining mail-in ballots. Let's goooo!!! First

Tonight Mexico surpassed Sweden in COVID-19 deaths per million. Sweden is often the first country that comes to mind when thinking of nations whose health authorities bet on beating the

Sometimes this pandemic - and the way it's handled here - puts me deep in my thoughts about past crises I've witnessed and covered in Mexico. Not so much a

A reporter at tonight's COVID-19 task force presser in Mexico City questioned its leader about the herd immunity approach. He started off with a fake news/infodemia detour, which has become

This table within the NYT interactive on pandemic excess mortality worldwide gives me more confidence to report something I've been suspecting for awhile: Mexico probably has the world's highest number

Mexico has now surpassed the govt-acknowledged number of COVID-19 deaths the task force leader gave as the "catastrophic" scenario. The worst-case estimate of 60K deaths was itself a moving upwards

While arguably "better than nothing" one aspect of this arrangement that I haven't seen reported is how this administration has been outsourcing govt duties to companies owned by Mexico's second

Mexico has surpassed the UK in confirmed COVID-19 deaths. Over the course of July, Mexico also shot past the former hotspots of Spain, France and Italy to take the #3

Mexico has a macabre genre of crime reporting known as "la nota roja". Its content is oftentimes unnecessarily gruesome, but it sometimes fills an information void. Lately, la nota roja

I've never seen Twitter users circle the wagons around Mexican govt data like it has around official statistics on the COVID-19 outbreak. It's especially intense today after the NYT published

Hello new followers.Today's 7.5 earthquake has drawn rare international news attention to Oaxaca. Please allow me to take this moment to tell you about a brutal massacre of 15 people

Tonight is giving me an eerie Nov. 25, 2006 feeling. Let me explain.What's happening in cities across the US is the first time Americans have witnessed widespread destruction of police