Después de Panamá, el istmo más interesante para la construcción de un canal es el del sureste de México, en Tehuantepec, ahí donde la tierra da vuelta. Ubicado dentro del territorio norteamenricano, dentro del pretendido homeland que extiende hipotéticamente sus fronteras hasta colindar con Guatemala y Belice, el istmo de Tehuantepec, con 200 km de longitud, se ofrece como vía de comunicación ideal entre los dos grandes océanos, al abrigo y cuidado de los poderes del norte que, como en Panamá o más aún, se preocuparán por mantener la seguridad de ese valioso eslabón del mercado mundial.

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E.U. and Japan Push Coronavirus Stimulus Packages

Mapas sobre las riquezas naturales - 2020

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Zonas de guerra en 2019

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Meat processing companies are reluctant to disclose detailed case counts.

As dozens of plants that closed because of outbreaks begin reopening, meat companies’ reluctance to disclose detailed case counts makes it difficult to determine whether the contagion is contained or new cases are emerging even with new safety measures in place.

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Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America

Toward the end of May in the year 2020, the number of people in the United States who have died from the coronavirus neared 100,000 — almost all of them within a three-month span. An average of more than 1,100 deaths a day.

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China, Faced With Challenges, Mounts Show of Strength at Party Congress

BEIJING — China’s top leaders on Friday made a show of strength to confront defiance in Hong Kong and the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus outbreak, even as they acknowledged that both had dealt a blow to the ruling Communist Party’s agenda.