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Enrique Cifuentes

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Miguel Angel Guevara (left), an M.P.P. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, confers with Harvard public health researcher Enrique Cifuentes. They are launching a six-month, multi-university series of panels, lectures, and TED-style talks on the recent disappearance of 43 students in Mexico and on years of similar violence. It’s a search for information, insight, and — by April — recommended solutions.

Murders in Mexico

Harvard, Boston experts step in to help

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DateNovember 14, 2014

Air quality in Mexico City is influenced by the bowl-like valley it sits within, surrounded by pollution-trapping mountains like those in this 47-story view (photo 1). Heavy traffic accounts for most of the air pollution in this megacity of 22 million residents (photo 2). Yet it also has the largest bike-sharing program (photo 3) in Latin America — one of many attempts to improve the city’s environment and quality of life.

Coming up for air

Mexico City, Harvard alliance to study health changes after two decades of major environmental upgrades

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DateOctober 28, 2014July 9, 2019

Maria Dolores León Torres (left), at home with her family in the La Vista neighborhood of Chapala, Mexico. She and her son Juan de Dios, age 4 (center), were part of a Harvard study investigating suspected contamination in fish from Lake Chapala. “We haven’t ever gotten ill,” she said. Photos by Ned Brown/Harvard Staff

The mystery of the lake

Harvard researchers probed whether fish in Mexican area were contaminated — and were harming mothers, children

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DateOctober 20, 2014April 15, 2019