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Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds of miles away in the Zocalo, the central plaza of Mexico City. As thousands filled the historic space on January 12, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s first woman president, was preparing to […]

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Kent Paterson is a freelance journalist who covers the southwestern United States, the border region and Mexico. He is a regular contributor to CounterPunch and the Americas Program.