Hacker News with Generative AI: Mexico

'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

Mental Health, Psilocybin, First Responders, Mexico, US

9 points by rntn 19 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Board Games, Mexico, Social Impact, Prisons

38 points by solardev 19 days ago | 11 comments

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.

Mexico, Migration, Immigration, Technology, United States

4 points by bloomingkales 21 days ago | 0 comments

'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

Social Impact, Urban Planning, Mexico, Poverty, Government

18 points by spoonfeeder006 21 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Food, Mexico, Holidays, Christmas

47 points by juanplusjuan 24 days ago | 19 comments

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.

History, Libraries, Mexico, Paper, Archaeology

22 points by wglb 28 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Crime, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Education, Chemistry

20 points by hilux 46 days ago | 3 comments

'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost (aljazeera.com)
A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries.

Art, History, Mexico, Color, Ancient Civilizations

5 points by mooreds 47 days ago | 1 comments

Feds: Tether has become a money laundering tool for Mexican drug trafficker (404media.co)
Tether is being used on a massive scale by large scale drug traffickers, to the point where Tether is sold cheaper in Mexico due to its links to drugs, according to court records reviewed by 404 Media.

Cryptocurrency, Crime, Mexico, Money Laundering, Law Enforcement

58 points by SirLJ 47 days ago | 27 comments

'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost (aljazeera.com)
A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries.

History, Archaeology, Mexico, Art, Science

109 points by Qem 48 days ago | 18 comments

Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles (nature.com)
Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes.

Archaeology, History, Mexico, Sound, Ancient Civilizations

62 points by tosh 57 days ago | 33 comments

Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink (2020) (magazine.tcu.edu)
Indigenous maps of colonial Mexico in the 16th to 18th centuries — and the materials used to create them — have captured Alex Hidalgo’s imagination for nearly a decade.

History, Cartography, Indigenous Cultures, Mexico, Colonialism

16 points by mooreds 76 days ago | 0 comments

Migrants Face Mass Kidnappings as U.S. and Mexico Ramp Up Enforcement (propublica.org)
It was Jan. 17 when Nevy de Zelada, a migrant from Guatemala, and her family were walking on the edge of a four-lane highway in southern Mexico in blistering, 100-degree heat.

Immigration, Mexico, Human Rights, Crime

11 points by hn_acker 77 days ago | 3 comments

Mexican TikTokers coded words to report on narco-violence without getting banned (restofworld.org)
Mexican TikTokers who report on drug-related violence have come up with code words to avoid having their content removed.

Mexico, Social Media, Censorship, Crime, Journalism

15 points by giuliomagnifico 80 days ago | 7 comments

PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle (bbc.com)
A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.

Archaeology, History, Mexico, Maya Civilization

173 points by janpot 80 days ago | 117 comments

Lost Maya city with temple pyramids and plazas discovered in Mexico (theguardian.com)
After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a team of researchers have stumbled on a lost Maya city of temple pyramids, enclosed plazas and a reservoir, all of which had been hidden for centuries by the Mexican jungle.

Archaeology, Maya Civilization, Mexico, History, Discovery

12 points by tosh 81 days ago | 0 comments

Researcher finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident (bbc.com)
A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.

Archeology, Mexico, Maya Civilization, History

10 points by wood_spirit 81 days ago | 0 comments

Mexico revives century-old railway in $2.8B bid to rival Panama Canal (2023) (ft.com)

Mexico, Transportation, Infrastructure, Panama Canal, Economics

42 points by divbzero 102 days ago | 14 comments

Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply in 2024 (pewresearch.org)
After reaching a record high at the end of 2023, the monthly number of U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico has plummeted so far in 2024.

Immigration, Border Security, United States, Mexico

6 points by hn_acker 105 days ago | 1 comments

In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains (smithsonianmag.com)
The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a window to the distant past.

Archaeology, Mexico, Underwater Exploration, Paleontology

184 points by pseudolus 107 days ago | 53 comments

the US stirs up the hornet's nest of drug trafficking in Mexico (elpais.com)
Prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for former Mexican drug czar Genaro García Luna, hours after Mexico’s president said Washington is ‘ jointly responsible’ for the violence that has broken out in Sinaloa

Drug Trafficking, Mexico, Politics, Law Enforcement

15 points by PaulHoule 108 days ago | 0 comments

Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you (krebsonsecurity.com)
The FBI is warning timeshare owners to be wary of a prevalent telemarketing scam involving a violent Mexican drug cartel that tries to trick people into believing someone wants to buy their property.

Scams, Crime, Mexico, Telemarketing, Drug Cartels

246 points by todsacerdoti 115 days ago | 292 comments

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48) (publicdomainreview.org)

Mexico, History, Archaeology, Public Domain

35 points by Thevet 126 days ago | 3 comments

Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen (texasobserver.org)

Texas, Mexico, Guns, Crime, Politics

34 points by ivanleoncz 138 days ago | 31 comments

Traveling with a Laptop and an iPad to Mexico? Prepare to Pay Hundreds (forbes.com)

Traveling, Mexico, Technology, Costs

41 points by josephcsible 139 days ago | 9 comments

China Conquers Mexico's Automotive Market, and the US Is Worried (wired.com)