In 2024, Mexico News Daily once again covered plenty of “hard news” and “bad news” stories. As we have done since MND was founded more than 10 years ago , we also reported numerous stories that made us laugh, brought a smile to our faces, warmed our hearts and even left us scratching our heads in bewilderment. Maya priests join investigation after tree falls in ‘center of the world’ Now, as we approach the end of the year, it’s time to look back at the amusing, uplifting, inspirational, heartening, gratifying, strange, surreal and “only in Mexico” stories MND published this year.
We continue today with a compilation of articles we published between July and September. Click here to read our Q1 compilation , and here to read our Q2 complication . Look out for our “México Magico” compendium for the final quarter of the year tomorrow! Early in the third quarter of the year, we reported on another strange political story — eight men were accused of “identity theft” after they won municipal positions at elections in Michoacán .
Why? They posed as trans women to flout gender parity laws. Also in the news in early July was a statue of Poseidon in the surf just off the coast of Progreso, Yucatán. It was a bizarre story indeed: Check out our reports here and here .
Police deployed to protect Poseidon statue that ‘angered’ a Maya god in Yucatán Another intriguing story was that of the skeletons of 112 prehistoric humans that were found in Méxic.
