Hacker News with Generative AI: Mexico

US rejects Colorado River water request from Mexico in first since 1944 (thehill.com)
The Trump administration has denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the first such denial in 81 years.
Lessons from open source in the Mexican government (lwn.net)
The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and downs. While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons.
'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await (theguardian.com)
‘Eggflation’ sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await
Horror on the coast of Oaxaca, a tourist paradise plagued by mass disappearances (elpais.com)
Jaqueline Meza was taken from the paradisiacal beaches of Oaxaca a week ago. It was her mother who raised the alert: she was kidnapped while she was having dinner in a restaurant near the beach.
China delays approval of BYD's Mexico plant amid fears tech could leak to US (ft.com)
US Cracking Down on Egg Smuggling from Mexico as Prices Soar (msn.com)
With egg prices at record highs, authorities are seeing a sharp increase in smuggling operations attempting to bring eggs across the US-Mexico border.
Fyre Festival 2 tickets on sale; Mexican officials: "no permits have been filed" (livenowfox.com)
Tickets for Fyre Festival 2 are on sale, but Mexican officials say no one has applied for permits to hold the event.
The Official Aztec C Online Museum (aztecmuseum.ca)
Welcome to the Wonderfully Ancient World of Aztec C
Trump says he is pausing tariffs on Canadian and Mexcican goods until April 2 (cbc.ca)
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he is again pausing his tariffs on some Canadian goods, offering the country yet another roughly month-long reprieve from a punishing 25 per cent levy.
José Guadalupe Posada's Engravings of Unusual Births (Ca. 1880–1910) (publicdomainreview.org)
The Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) is best known today for his popularization of calaveras — fully-dressed, grinning skeletons posed as if in the full flush of life.
Tesla gets more than 20% of parts from Mexico, it will be affected by tariffs (electrek.co)
Tesla gets more than 20% of its parts from Mexico, as well as some from Canada on top of it. So, yes, Tesla will be negatively affected by the tariffs.
US Threats and Mexico's Crackdown Hit Mexican Cartel (nytimes.com)
A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives, forcing at least some of its leaders to scale back on fentanyl production in Sinaloa state, their stronghold.
Mexico extradites 29 drug traffickers to the United States (elpais.com)
Mexico has extradited 29 drug traffickers who were being held in different prisons across the country to the United States on Thursday, according to the Mexican attorney general’s office.
Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink (mexicodailypost.com)
In a significant business development, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has decided to cancel his collaboration with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Carlos Slim breaks deals with Starlink after Musk links Slim to drug trafficking (macronews.mx)
América Móvil invertirá en su propia infraestructura y descarta colaboración con SpaceX
Mexico keeps finding clandestine graves (elpais.com)
Immersed in a crisis of violence that seems to have no end, Mexico is adding up dozens of deaths and disappearances every day, as well as shootouts, exploding mines, drones that drop bombs... And then there are the mass graves, clandestine burials that have numbered in the thousands in recent years.
Mexico issues legal threat to Google (thecomeback.com)
On Jan. 20, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.”
Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps (cnn.com)
Mexico will wait for Google response on Gulf of Mexico before filing lawsuit (pbs.org)
Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.
Why US Refiners Won't Ditch Canadian Crude (oilprice.com)
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that U.S. tariffs are on hold for one month after she held talks with President Trump and pledged to send 10,000 troops to the border to fight drug trafficking.
Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says might sue Google (apnews.com)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government wouldn’t rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”
3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire (thomaskole.nl)
The year is 1518. Mexico-Tenochtitlan, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an empire ruling over, and receiving tribute from, more than 5 million people. Tenochtitlan is home to 200.000 farmers, artisans, merchants, soldiers, priests and aristocrats.
What will get more expensive from 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods (cnn.com)
'This is medicine': inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders (theguardian.com)
Amid a US mental health crisis, police officers, firefighters and paramedics are flying to Mexico for treatments they say are transformative
Board game from Mexican prisons brings together people from all walks of life (apnews.com)
Poleana, a board game with ancient roots that established a foothold nearly a century ago in Mexican prisons, is spreading in popularity outside the walls.
Mexico Plans Alert App for Migrants Facing Arrest in US (barrons.com)
Mexico will launch a mobile application with an alert button for migrants facing imminent detention in the United States, the government said Friday, following President-elect Donald Trump's threats of mass deportations.
'Living proof that you can spend money on the poor': Utopia comes to Mexico City (theguardian.com)
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit (atlasobscura.com)
In Mexico, ponche Navideño—or Christmas punch—is a holiday classic, served up at parties and posadas, neighborhood-wide re-enactments of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter for the birth of Jesus. “Christmas in particular has so many foods and rituals attached to it. So you would have your ponche and your tamales,” says Lesley Téllez, a food writer and the author of the cookbook Eat Mexico.
Chicago's Newberry Library discovers rare maguey paper in collection (chicagotribune.com)
The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century.
Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl (nytimes.com)
In their quest to build fentanyl empires, Mexican criminal groups are turning to an unusual talent pool: not hit men or corrupt police officers, but chemistry students studying at Mexican universities.