Posts Tagged ‘ BBC ’

BBC News Website: Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway

A photographic train journey through northern Mexico’s stunning network of six canyons. Straddling the states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua, collectively these mountainous ravines are four times bigger than the Grand Canyon.

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BBC News website: Mexico’s butterflies, 6 March 2009

This photo-gallery profiles a new eco-tourism project within Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ‘Experts say deforestation threatens the spectacular annual migration of millions of monarch butterflies from Canada and the US to forests north-west of Mexico City.

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BBC News website: Chile indigenous politics on the move, 28 January 2009

Indigenous politics rarely register on the Chilean national radar despite flourishing across the border in Bolivia. Provincial history teacher Gustavo Quilaqueo wants to change that by quitting the classroom to found the first political party representing Chile’s forgotten indigenous people. Kate Joynes-Burgess meets him in Temuco.

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BBC News website: Passion of Christ comes alive in Mexico City, 11 April 2009

Throughout Semana Santa (Holy Week), Iztapalapa, one of Mexico City’s poorest and most populous areas, takes this solemn pageantry to another level with street processions and an epic Passion Play.

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