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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
Freelance journalist, photographer and author
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Mangroveträd: Las Chelemeras vapen i klimatkampen

Mangroveträd: Las Chelemeras vapen i klimatkampen

arbetaren.se — Så har planteringen av mangroveträd i den mexikanska fiskebyn Chelem förbättrat både klimat och kvinnors position i lokalsamhället.
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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

Al Jazeera English — The softball team Las Amazonas de Yaxunah has defied gender stereotypes to become a national phenomenon in Mexico.
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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

The Guardian — Las Amazonas of Yaxunah play a sport seen as 'no-go for women' in Mexico and in a team kit that honours their Maya heritage
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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

Goats & Soda — The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses - and no shoes.,
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Cenotes: unique biospheres under threat in the Yucatán

Cenotes: unique biospheres under threat in the Yucatán

Mexico News Daily — Activists say that industrial agriculture and increasing development are contaminating the peninsula's fragile underground river system.
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Artist rediscovers mysterious recipe for ancient 'Maya Blue' dye

Artist rediscovers mysterious recipe for ancient 'Maya Blue' dye

Mexico News Daily — An indigenous sculptor in Yucatán has recreated a forgotten Maya process for creating a resilient blue pigment found at Chichén Itzá.
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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

Mexico News Daily — As Tapachula, Chiapas, has become notorious as a place where migrants coming from Central America can be trapped in Mexico for months or even years in detention — or simply living on the streets waiting for paperwork with no way to legally earn income — a small Tabasco town on Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala has become an increasingly popular route for migrant crossings and human trafficking.
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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

Mexico News Daily — For Mexican towns, getting designated as a Pueblo Mágico (Magical Town) is often seen as a boon. Getting to call yourself one makes your town more attractive to tourists and gives it federal money for things like the renovation of historic districts, beautification of homes and businesses and free promotion by the federal government.
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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

Mexico News Daily — Don Manuel's knowledge of ancient Mayan remedies is being preserved for future generations thanks to a group of determined college students.
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