Tropical Storm Cristóbal has battered six states in Mexico landslides and damage to homes and highways in Yucatán Chiapas and Tabasco before moving into Campeche where it was hugging the coast of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday Nine thousand soldiers and National Guard members have been dispatched to affected areas and those still in the storm’s path Cristóbal’s sustained winds dropped to 65 kph yesterday as it approached Ciudad del Carmen and it was downgraded to a tropical depression earlier today with sustained winds of 56 kph National Hurricane Center said at 4:00 p.m CDT on Thursday that the storm is expected to deliver extreme rainfall amounts through Saturday in Campeche Cristóbal is expected to regain strength as it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico Friday night and heads northward where it could make landfall in the United States 139 people had to be evacuated by the army due to rising floodwaters that washed out highways and threatened residences Two communities in the municipality of Centla Yucatán officials declared a yellow alert due to the approaching storm Mass evacuations could be carried out in Celestún chiles and other crops have been lost to the flooding in Yucatán where some areas have received up to 360 mm of rain since Sunday the Chetumal-Escárcega highway was closed due to flooding leaving the southern part of the state cut off At least 12 municipalities in Veracruz were put on yellow alert due to strong winds and torrential rain Ixtapa and Unión Juárez have all seen landslides and wash-outs due to the storm National Civil Protection coordinator David León said one person in Chiapas was killed by a falling tree Cristóbal was born on June 2 from the remnants of Pacific Tropical Storm Amanda which battered Central America leaving at least 22 dead in El Salvador and Guatemala and marks the earliest named storm in the Atlantic ever The previous record was set in 2016 when Tropical Storm Colin formed on June 5 Source: Milenio (sp), El Universal (sp), Accuweather (sp) ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC News Five UC Santa Cruz students in four disciplines are winners of Fulbright scholarships for a year of research and study abroad.  Two of the Fulbright scholars are environmental studies graduate students; the others are in history and literature, and another just received her Ph.D. in biology. They will travel to China, Germany, Italy, and Mexico for the 2011-2012 academic year and are among more than 1,600 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. student program Ory said she was attracted to UCSC’s interdisciplary program because it allows her to pursue her interests in public policy and water issues with the goal of applying her research to solutions.  This past year she also won a Sustainability Fellowship grant from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.  Her advisor is professor Brent Haddad Ory will travel to Italy to research the effects of policies that limit herbicide use and promote sustainable pest management on corn farms in the Veneto region in the north She plans to look at how the policies have affected water quality as well as farmers’ decisions and economic outcomes Ory is interested in how the ban of the herbicide atrizine in Italy 20 years ago has affected water quality and agricultural economics Atrizine is currently under a national review by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency so the experience in Italy will provide insights for the creation of U.S Carolina Reyes graduated in June with a Ph.D in microbiology and environmental toxicology The first person in her family to attend college she will be studying microbial ecology and physiology at the University of Bremen in Germany she was awarded the HWK Junior Fellow grant from the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Germany associate professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology investigating the genetics of microorganisms that use iron and arsenic in their metabolism and change those elements into different forms The metabolic activity of such microorganisms plays an important role in the cycling of metals in the environment Reyes will continue this line of research in Germany focusing on microbial iron reduction (a process that reduces the oxidation state of the iron) in marine sediments in the Kattegat and Skagerrak region of the Baltic Sea Sediments in this area are particularly rich in iron Studying the genes and microorganisms involved in iron reduction in natural sediments may lead to the discovery of novel organisms and gene products with potential applications in biotechnology Devon Sampson has been working in Mexico since January researching the agro-biodiversity methods of Mayan farmers said he enrolled in UC Santa Cruz because of its agroecology program and professor Steve Gliessman in environmental studies in 2005 with honors and dean’s honors for his thesis He later sat on the steering committee of the Community Agroecology Network and helped fun Paper Wings Farm a small-scale flower-growing operation in Sebastopol that focuses on rare and heirloom varieties.  He is now pursuing a Ph.D He plans to remain in Mexico through May 2012 studying how Mayan farmers use biodiversity of crops to make a living and contend with pests Jeremy Tai is now in his third year of study in the East Asian History Ph.D with an emphasis on Chinese history and urban planning in China He plans to use his Fulbright grant to support a year of dissertation research about the Chinese city of Xi’an Tai has a background in Chinese history that includes a B.A plus several years of work experience in urban planning in New York City titled “Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi’an and the Modern Chinese Frontier,” will trace the “making Tai will collect print and visual materials and conduct interviews with long-time residents He will work with the Institute of Historical Geography at Shaanxi Normal University under the direction of a professor of Historical Geography from Wesleyan University’s College of Letters studies in literature will explore a set of Italian political films from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s in their historical context against the backdrop of an intense and violent period of radical political struggle He will do the majority of his research and writing in the national library in Naples and plans to use his location to arrange short research visits to collections and film archives elsewhere in Italy Williams will work with the Department of American Cultural and Linguistic Studies and the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale By focusing on key “political” filmmakers who used their art form to explore the most urgent issues of their time Williams hopes to examine the questions of art’s relevance in regard to political action its usefulness as a medium for mirroring and changing society; and its long-term value as a historical document The high court has sided with Yucatan in a dispute that could have put some bordering towns in neighboring Quintana Roo Tixcacalcupul and Chikidzonot would have ended up in another state if Quintana Roo’s shifting border line had been recognized by Mexico’s surpreme court Yucatan state officials in June filed an injunction against its peninsular neighbor to prevent Quintana Roo from annexing the municipalities Border disputes among all three states on the Peninsula have simmered for years. Quintana Roo was established as its own state, breaking off from Yucatan, in 1974 when the federal government made it a tourism center A Campeche-Quintana Roo boundary dispute arose in the late 1990s but was settled in 2013 when the federal court sided with Campeche Quintana Roo lost its southern border with Guatemala Quintana Roo legislators revived the current border dispute in April when it revised its Magna Carta to claim an expanded boundary Quintana Roo also attempted to grab part of the Calakmul eco-tourist zone in Campeche Yucatán Magazine has the inside scoop on living here. Sign up to get our top headlines delivered to your inbox every week An airline deal will go a long way to remind travelers that Mexico represents more than beach vacations A team of speleologists and archaeologists have discovered a cave in Yucatán with 137 children’s painted handprints Archaeologists believe the handprints to be about 1,200 years old and part of a Maya coming-of-age ceremony The site is approximately one hour south of Mérida in an area where cenotes and cave formations are known to be… Coachmen complain business has suffered by 70 percent because of animal rights activists who say the practice is cruel to the horses There are lots of small and well-known influencers online who post pictures and reviews of their travel tips and destinations And many young travelers will base their next vacation or trip on how Instagram-able this or that destination is So there is always an audience for this niche!  In… the Mérida-based veterinarian who leads well-known spay and neuter campaigns aided an effort to treat over 300 dogs in El Salvador For the fourth time since the coronavirus crisis arrived 11 patients in Yucatan died in a span of 24 hours That is the highest number of fatalities the state has seen in just a day 28 and 29 was the death count so high in Yucatan Advertise With Us Since Yucatan’s fire season began March 1 said the director of Yucatan Civil Protection The fires broke amid the worst drought since at least 1986 It hasn’t rained in Yucatan in about two months The most hectares — 42 — were burned in Umán followed by Conkal with 14 hectares and Tzucacab with 13 hectares 423 conflagrations broke out in the fields while in Mérida Airbnb appears to be turning a new focus to luxury The World Cup attracted 18 teams from Guatemala the Merida City Council has received 800 requests for free legal advice from homeowners shocked over their electric bills Bills have climbed by as much as fivefold for CFE customers who insist their usage has not gone up Even offices that have been shut down because of coronavirus contingencies… After finding numerous examples of excesses Yucatán has gone from limiting social events to banning them altogether baptisms or similar affairs that tend to pack people together have been banned by Yucatán state authorities meant to contain the spread of coronavirus follows a crackdown that found numerous businesses flouting the… More than 1,000 guests are expected at the third and final debate among the nation’s presidential candidates on Tuesday A once-thriving fishing village in Mexico is being slowly eaten away by coastal erosion and residents are up in arms about failed promises to relocate them This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Yucatán — High temperatures and good weather lured an estimated 220,000 beachgoers to the coast over the Easter weekend long lines were seen at bus terminals where public transportation connected people to the beach 32 kilometers away Heavier than usual traffic was also reported before 10 a.m Most vehicles coming from Mérida reached the beach in under a half an hour Many families came from the interior of the country — Toluca Puebla and the Mexico City — as well as from Tikimul and Tzucacab and other municipalities in the state’s interior a beer company sponsored a free rock concert on the pier Progreso police estimated 110,000 visitors on Sunday with only a few minor incidents or injuries fried fish sold for between 130 and 160 pesos per kilo although many people chose to pack their own meals Cleanup campaigns have apparently paid off with dramatic declines in cases of mosquito-borne diseases SoHo Galleries is hosting a Mexican Independence pARTy It all promises to be a night of fun and culture with Mexican artists and icons Yucatán continues to enjoy its status as the state with Mexico’s lowest crime numbers yellow and red lights of the Semáforo Delictivo In another case of dueling epidemiological stoplights the federal government has declared Yucatán will advance from orange to yellow-level alerts But Yucatán is sticking to its more stringent orange status keeping a cap on restaurant and hotel capacity as tourists with no evidence of vaccination flood in 17 states previously under the green light… Progreso artist Edith Villanueva put Yucatán into a brightly colored orbit by winning third place at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria The World Bodypainting Festival is an important competition in which hundreds of artists from around the world come together to captivate with their beautiful works Villanueva’s win came after competing against 110 participants… ‘Kissing bug’ cases spike without warning