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Guachochi, Sep 11 (EFE).- In the impoverished Sierra Tarahumara region of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, many children and young people were on the verge of dropping out of school during the pandemic due to lack of resources just like around 250,000 children in Mexico, according to recent report, making it easier for them to be attracted to drug trafficking.For a year and a half -from March 2020 until the end of August- Mexico kept schools closed and long-distance classes were offered -through television, radio and internet- to more than 33 million students of all levels. (Camera: RAUL MORALES).B-ROLL OF MEXICAN STUDENTS LEARNING AT SCHOOL IN GUACHOCHI, CHIHUAHUA STATE, MEXICO.
Mulegé, Mar 1 (EFE).- The pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to the whale-watching business in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur, with the most recent season suffering an 85 percent drop in the number of visitors."This year has been catastrophic for (that sector's) finances, and whale-related activities aren't generating (sufficient) income. In some cases, it's only enough to pay staff, which has already been reduced by 50 percent," Enrique Achoy, a tourism entrepreneur, told Efe on Monday.Baja California Sur each year welcomes around 3,000 whales, and more than 1,500 of these giant cetaceans are born in its waters; the latest whale-watching season began in November 2020 and will end early this month. (Camera: MAHATMA FONG).SHOT LIST: TOURISTS GO ON A WHALE-WATCHING TRIP IN MULEGÉ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO. SOUND BITE: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF TOURISM IN MUNICIPALITY OF MULEGÉ, ANTONIO COTA.TRANSLATION: They have taken actions but it is something that we cannot control. The only way for us to control and to have a good and healthy tourism in this region is (to wait for) the vaccines to arrive and be inoculated as they should be.
Search missions continue for 30 missing children after a three story wing of the Enrique Rebsamen school collapsed after a 7.1 magnitude quake struck Mexico on Tuesday. IMAGES
Hurricane Norma strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it approaches a tourist hotspot on Mexico's Pacific coast. The hurricane -- which at one point was a Category 4 out of five on the Saffir-Simpson scale -- is now packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour (120 miles per hour), the US National Hurricane Center says in its latest update. IMAGES
Migrants arriving in the US are seen from the Mexican side of the border through a barbed wire fence as they wait for the expiration of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era border restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims. IMAGES
Fresh rioting breaks out late Saturday over the Dutch government's coronavirus measures, with rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police, and setting fire to bicycles as protests turn violent for a second night in the Netherlands. IMAGES