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Vatican City, Dec 24 (EFE), (CAMERA: Antonella Nusca) .- Pope Francis officiate the most loneliest Mass to respect the curfew due to the pandemic.
Merida (Spain), Jul 22 (EFE), (Camera: Jero Morales).- Mexican actor and playwright David Gaitán talked about civil rights and the pandemic in an interview with Efe ahead the presentation of its work Antígona, which will open the Mérida International Theater Festival in Spain.SOUNDBITES OF STAGE DIRECTOR DAVID GAITÁN:"The pandemic has brought issues regarding social inequality to the surface: the possibility (or not) of staying home as people have been asked. So for those who live day to day... this is a brutal message, because now, apart from every day's scarcity, they have become the 'villains' of the story since they don't stay at home. And the got a very difficult message from authorities: 'If you don't stay home, you are putting people's health and also yours at risk."
Thousands of Mexican women march through Mexico City to demand their rights on International Women's Day. IMAGES
Hundreds of people march down Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, demanding justice and equality for Indigenous peoples, on the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas. IMAGES
Pro-abortion rights activists demonstrate to demand the legalisation of abortion on the Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion in Mexico City. Eight of Mexico's 32 states have decriminalised abortion, but in September 2021 the Supreme Court declared several state laws banning abortion unconstitutional, effectively allowing it throughout the country. IMAGES