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The Most Handsome Melon in Mexico? Yes, It’s a Real Contest.

19 septembre 2026 à 18:36
In the eastern city of Xalapa, what started as a joke among friends over two decades ago has become a vibrant annual tradition that highlights creativity and absurdity with melons.

© Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times

Inside the Fight Against a Flesh-Eating Fly in Mexico

3 septembre 2026 à 09:49
For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation across the region. The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun deep in Mexico.

© Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times

New World screwworm flies in a cage at a facility in Metapa, Mexico, that that produces sterile flies, which when released into the wild slowly reduce the population size.
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