With 94 boats vying for a total cash purse of more than $1.3 million, the Pelagic Rockstar tournament has become the largest of its kind in Central America.
Mexico City, Mar 5 (EFE).- Hundreds of people in Mexico City on Saturday held a day of collective action at the Monument to the Women Who Fight and reinstalled a feminist statue on the empty plinth at a roundabout. The event, ahead of International Women’s Day on Mar. 8 and a possible national strike the …
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By Daina Beth Solomon
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) â Mexicoâs southeastern state of Veracruz will become the fourth state in the predominantly Roman Catholic country to clear away criminal penalties for elective abortion after lawmakers on Tuesday voted to decriminalize the procedure.
The initiative to allow abortions by choice passed in a 25-13 vote with one abstention, Veracruzâs Congress said in a statement.
The state will join Mexico City, Oaxaca and Hidalgo, which decriminalized abortion just late last month, as places where women can now choose to have abortions within 12 weeks of pregnancy.
âWe thought this day was so far off that weâre in shock, in the best way possible,â said a tweet from Brujas del Mar, a Veracruz feminist group, while noting that most of Mexicoâs states have yet to follow suit.
By Syndicated Content
By Daina Beth Solomon
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) â Mexicoâs southeastern state of Veracruz will become the fourth state in the predominantly Roman Catholic country to clear away criminal penalties for elective abortion after lawmakers on Tuesday voted to decriminalize the procedure.
The initiative to allow abortions by choice passed in a 25-13 vote with one abstention, Veracruzâs Congress said in a statement.
The state will join Mexico City, Oaxaca and Hidalgo, which decriminalized abortion just late last month, as places where women can now choose to have abortions within 12 weeks of pregnancy.
âWe thought this day was so far off that weâre in shock, in the best way possible,â said a tweet from Brujas del Mar, a Veracruz feminist group, while noting that most of Mexicoâs states have yet to follow suit.