Short news from the USA and Mexico.
Eight prototypes for a boundary wall to Mexico have been built outside San Diego. Building a wall on the more than 3,000-kilometer-long border between the US and Mexico was one of Donald Trump's loudest election promises. The Senate has yet to agree on how to finance the construction. Twenty million dollars will be spent from this year's budget on the prototype design.
Cooking and baking with solar energy: An oven that needs neither electricity nor fuel.
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The small Mexican flower bat lives in central Mexico, for part of the year at least.
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About a special animal in Mexico
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On the eve of International Women's Day 2019, thirty of the forty deputies in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon voted to criminalize abortions. Since then, there has been much discussion about whether women have the power to decide over their own bodies.
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Life is not possible without heroes. The author Cornelia Funke explains our need for role models and difference between idols of children and adults.
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"El Castillo" ("the castle"), the famous Kukulkan pyramid of the ruins of Chichén Itzá, I saw for the first time a few days after I decided not to be young anymore.
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