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Mexico inaugurates dam that is flooding Indigenous sites

by Associated Press
| August 5, 2020 6:03 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated a dam in northern Mexico on Wednesday even though work was symbolically suspended by anthropologists because it is flooding thousand-year-old Indigenous sites containing rock carvings and the remains of pre-Hispanic dwellings.

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