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Mark Viales

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  • Journalist, Photographer and Author, Freelance
Gibraltar, México, Spain
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Covers:  Sociopolitics, the environment, history, sport and culture
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Mangroveträd: Las Chelemeras vapen i klimatkampen

Mangroveträd: Las Chelemeras vapen i klimatkampen

Så har planteringen av mangroveträd i den mexikanska fiskebyn Chelem förbättrat både klimat och kvinnors posi…

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Field of dreams: How an Indigenous softball team captured Mexico's heart

Field of dreams: How an Indigenous softball team captured Mexico's heart

The softball team Las Amazonas de Yaxunah has defied gender stereotypes to become a national phenomenon in Me…

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Maya battle cry: barefoot softball players swing at Yucatán's macho taboos

Maya battle cry: barefoot softball players swing at Yucatán's macho taboos

Las Amazonas of Yaxunah play a sport seen as 'no-go for women' in Mexico and in a team kit that honours their…

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Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstars

Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstars

The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And th…

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Cenotes: unique biospheres under threat in the Yucatán

Cenotes: unique biospheres under threat in the Yucatán

Activists say that industrial agriculture and increasing development are contaminating the peninsula's fragil…

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Artist rediscovers mysterious recipe for ancient 'Maya Blue' dye

Artist rediscovers mysterious recipe for ancient 'Maya Blue' dye

An indigenous sculptor in Yucatán has recreated a forgotten Maya process for creating a resilient blue pigmen…

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Migrants find new route into Mexico via Tabasco but also dangers

Migrants find new route into Mexico via Tabasco but also dangers

As Tapachula, Chiapas, has become notorious as a place where migrants coming from Central America can be trap…

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Sisal, Yucatán, residents say yes to tourism but no to rapid development

Sisal, Yucatán, residents say yes to tourism but no to rapid development

For Mexican towns, getting designated as a Pueblo Mágico (Magical Town) is often seen as a boon. Getting to c…

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Yucatán youth enlist their elders to keep traditional Maya medicine alive

Yucatán youth enlist their elders to keep traditional Maya medicine alive

Don Manuel's knowledge of ancient Mayan remedies is being preserved for future generations thanks to a group …

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