Print article MEXICO CITY - The mystery surfaced early in the pandemic. Hospitals were jammed with coronavirus victims, but the official death count in Mexico City appeared suspiciously low. Sitting at her dining-room table one afternoon, Laurianne Despeghel, a 31-year-old economic consultant, clicked from chart to chart on her laptop, puzzling over how to uncover the real toll. “I think the data exist,” she typed to Mario Romero Zavala, a fellow math geek. She’d heard that death certificates were stored in a database at the city’s civil registry. But it would be tough to crack. A day later, Romero Zavala messaged back with an idea. “I’m going to hurry,” the 37-year-old software developer wrote. “I think by tomorrow morning we’ll have the data.”
Covid 19 coronavirus: No more parties - Mexico s piñata makers badly bruised by pandemic
9 Apr, 2021 05:00 AM
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A piñata shop in Mexico City. The industry has struggled across Mexico this year. Photo / Luis Antonio Rojas, The New York Times
A piñata shop in Mexico City. The industry has struggled across Mexico this year. Photo / Luis Antonio Rojas, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Oscar Lopez
The piñata industry, dependent on social gatherings, has seen sales plummet. Some artisans, in a creative bid to survive, have added coronavirus figures to their lineups of superheros and princesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/world/americas/mexico-pinata-makers-pandemic.html
A piñata shop in Mexico City. The industry has struggled across Mexico this year.Credit.Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times
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âNo More Partiesâ: Mexicoâs Piñata Makers Badly Bruised by Pandemic
A piñata shop in Mexico City. The industry has struggled across Mexico this year.Credit.Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times
April 8, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
The piñata industry, dependent on social gatherings, has seen sales plummet. Some artisans, in a creative bid to survive, have added coronavirus figures to their lineups of superheros and princesses.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during his daily morning news conference in December at the National Palace in Mexico City.Photo for The Washington Post by Luis Antonio Rojas
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