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A monarch butterfly is shown in Vista, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015.

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Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressFebruary 25, 2021

A health worker calls out to people to come out for screening for COVID-19 symptoms in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world after the United States and Brazil. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Global virus cases top 20 million; Russia approves vaccine

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press, and Mark Stevenson Associated PressAugust 11, 2020

Mourners pay their respects next to the coffin of environmental activist Homero Gomez Gonzalez at his wake in Ocampo, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Relatives of the anti-logging activist who fought to protect the winter habitat of monarch butterflies don't know whether he was murdered or died accidentally, but they say they do know one thing for sure: something bad is happening to rights and environmental activists in Mexico, and people are afraid.(AP Photo/Rebecca...

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Dead Mexican activist’s family say people are afraid

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressJanuary 30, 2020

This combination of frames from a Monday video by Kenny Miller and posted on the Twitter account of Alex LeBaron shows two views of a burned-out vehicle that was being used by some members of the LeBaron family as they were driving in a convoy near the Sonora-Chihuahua border in Mexico. Mexican authorities say drug cartel gunmen ambushed multiple vehicles, including this one, slaughtering several women and children.

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Cartel gunmen kill 9 US citizens

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressNovember 5, 2019

A police officer walks close to the scene outside a bar where more than 20 people died in an overnight attack, in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, early Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday "the criminals went in, closed the doors, the emergency exits, and set fire to the place." (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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Fiery attack on bar in southern Mexico kills 26

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressAugust 28, 2019

Central American migrants ride atop a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border, in Ixtepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The once large caravan of about 3,000 people was essentially broken up by an immigration raid on Monday, as migrants fled into the hills, took refuge at shelters and churches or hopped passing freight trains. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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Migrants turn to ‘The Beast’ again

by Mark Stevenson Associated Press, and Sonia Perez D. Associated PressApril 25, 2019

Central American migrants traveling in a caravan to the U.S. collect water as they rest at the San Francisco Catholic church in Tonala, Chiapas State, Mexico, Tuesday.

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Migrants fearful after hundreds arrested in Mexico

by Mark Stevenson Associated Press, and Sonia Perez D. Associated PressApril 23, 2019

In this image provided by the Secretary of National Defense, soldiers guard in the area near an oil pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo state, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. A huge fire exploded at a pipeline leaking fuel in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 21 people and badly burning 71 others as locals were collecting the spilling gasoline in buckets and garbage cans, officials said. Officials said the leak was caused by an illegal tap that fuel thieves had drilled...

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Mexico pipeline fire claims 73 lives

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressJanuary 20, 2019

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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US says migrants will wait in Mexico after claiming asylum

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Mark Stevenson Associated PressDecember 20, 2018

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. crowd onto a tractor as they make their way to Mapastepec, Mexico, Wednesday.

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Migrants set out anew on quest to reach distant US border

by Mark Stevenson Associated PressOctober 24, 2018