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Added on the 16/11/2017 23:14:42 - Copyright : AFP EN
Just last week, these bare rocks were the site of one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Mexico. Clear blue water cascading down these stones drew thousands of tourists every day to marvel at the Agua Azul waterfall in the Mexican region of Chiapas, but the waterfall started drying up a few weeks ago and has now slowed to a trickle. Realizing that one of their main tourist attractions was in grave danger, Chiapas authorities began investigating possible reasons why the Agua Azul waterfall suddenly dried up.
Mexico City, Dec 4 (EFE).- Mexico's energy company Iberdrola Mexico on Wednesday launched the "Construir para Educar" project (Build to Educate), with which it will invest 80 million pesos ($4.1 million) to rebuild 50 schools affected by the 2017 earthquakes in the southern state of Oaxaca. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE).FOOTAGE SHOWING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY BY THE CONFEDERATION OF INDUSTRIAL CHAMBERS OF MEXICO (CONCAMIN) DURING WHICH THE PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED.SOUNDBITES: ENRIQUE ALBA, CEO OF IBERDROLA MEXICO (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: 1.) In this project we will rebuild schools destroyed by the earthquakes (in 2017) because the priority is for children to return to school and return to school in decent conditions to learn and have a better future (00:12-00:25).2.) Real friends never leave you in good times and bad. And Iberdrola Mexico, yes, we do want to continue investing in the country, generating quality local employment, as well as social projects such as the one we present today (00:25-00:46).
Mexicans hold a minute of silence in the country’s capital to commemorate the anniversary of the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes that claimed more than 350 lives and more than 10,000 lives respectively. IMAGES
Images show police and army presence outside the South Naval Hospital and the 'La Roca' maximum security prison, in Guayaquil, as Ecuador's ex-vice president Jorge Glas, whose capture in a raid on Mexico's embassy in Quito sparked an outcry, is returned to the prison after a short hospitalization. IMAGES
Images outside the Naval Hospital in Guayaquil where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas was hospitalized after refusing to eat in prison. Glas, who had been granted political asylum at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, was arrested by Ecuadorian police Friday over corruption charges in a raid on the embassy that sparked a wave of international criticism. IMAGES
Hundreds of Mexicans gather outside the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the capital to watch a rare total solar eclipse. The "path of totality," where the Moon completely obscures the Sun's light, will streak across Mexico and the United States, before returning to the ocean over Canada's Atlantic coast, in a celestial spectacle witnessed by tens of millions of people. IMAGES
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