Mark Viales
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Freelance journalist, photographer and author
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Dec 1, 2024 |
msn.com | Mark Viales
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Dec 1, 2024 |
aljazeera.com | Mark Viales
Dzan, Mexico - Surrounded by dense jungle and beneath intertwining canopies of towering trees, Luis May Ku, 49, trudges ahead through shoulder-height bushes searching for a rare plant. The oppressive 40-degree Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) heat dulls the senses, and the air, thick with humidity, clings to our skin, causing beads of sweat to form and trickle down.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
americasquarterly.org | Mark Viales
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis article is adapted from AQ’s special report on food security in Latin America. To see other organizations working on this issue, click here. LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS, Mexico — Twisting and turning through winding mountain roads in a minivan in early August, a group of Maya women, garbed in colorful traditional tunics, chatted in their native Tzotzil language.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
news.mongabay.com | Mark Viales
Maya farmers in Yucatán, Mexico, have rekindled a pre-Hispanic ceremony that calls for rain from the god Cháak as the state suffers its worst drought in 50 years. The extended dry season has prevented local farmers from generating sufficient harvests to provide enough food to sustain Indigenous people from remote regions. In early May, the Yucatán Peninsula experienced a record high temperature of 43.7°C (110.7°F) after an already year-long drought.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
rethinkq.adp.com | Bénédicte Desrus |Mark Viales
Covered by improvised protective gear and surrounded by murky marshland, 43-year-old Keila Vázquez Lira sculls a small flat-bottomed boat towards mangrove nurseries like a Venetian gondolier, hoping to restore a crucial ecosystem destroyed by urban development. An extra hat under her sombrero shields her from scorching heat, while wetsuit cuttings insulate her from the waist down when she submerges for several hours.
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RT @Longreads: "It was used to paint pottery, sculptures, murals, jewellery, clothing, altars and, chillingly, the human beings the ancient…
RT @AJEnglish: A Mexican ceramicist has recreated the long-lost Maya blue pigment, a pre-Hispanic dye, more than 200 years after it was for…
Publication in @AJEnglish ‘MAYA BLUE’: THE MYSTERY DYE RECREATED TWO CENTURIS AFTER IT WAS LOST #native #maya #indigenousart #heritage #organic #AncientDiscoveries #mystery #paint #firstnations #ancientmaya #technology #science #mexico https://t.co/bVWJ3vAOnH via @AJEnglish