A data journalism project investigating thousands of cases of women missing in Mexico won $10,000 in financing and hands-on data visualization training, in a very competitive contest organized in a partnership between Microsoft and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin.
Journalist Itxaro Arteta from news site Animal Político will spearhead the project in a country where official counts say 19,450 girls, adolescents and women are reported missing. Half are between the ages of 10 and 24.
Journalist Itxaro Arteta from Animal Político will lead the winning project on missing women in Mexico. (Courtesy)
By Yucatan Times on December 20, 2020
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The inhabitants of three neighborhoods of that state delivered a letter to the president asking him to change the route of the train and avoid the demolition of their houses.
Residents of the neighborhoods of Camino Real, La Ermita, and Santa Lucía in Campeche, gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a letter asking him to change the layout of a section of the Mayan Train so that their houses are not demolished.
This Saturday, the president supervised the work of the Maya Train, from Calkiní, Campeche. There, residents of the neighborhoods intercepted his truck to deliver the letter.
By Yucatan Times on December 10, 2020
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The social groups with the highest percentage of people living in poverty are the indigenous sector and indigenous women in rural areas.
In Mexico, 52.4 million live in poverty, a figure that is equivalent to 41.9% of the population and represents a decrease of just 2.5% compared to the percentage registered in 2008 when the percentage was 44.4, according to figures from the National Evaluation Council. of the Social Development Policy (Coneval).
According to the results of the study “10 years of poverty measurement in Mexico”, carried out by Coneval, although there was an improvement in the indicators of social deprivation and 24 states reduced their poverty levels, the southeast of the country is still the region with the highest percentage of poor inhabitants.