Questions and Answers about
Mexico
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in SportsHow many teams are going to play in the 2026 World Cup?
Answer: FIFA changed the format for the 2026 World Cup to have 12 groups of four teams each instead of 16 groups of three teams each. This means that there will be 48 teams playing in the tournament (up from 32), which the US, Mexico, and Canada will co-host. The change was approved by FIFA’s…
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in PoliticsWho is Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
Answer: Former mayor of Mexico City and left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidential election with 53% in 2018. In his campaign. he promised to rid Mexico of corruption and inequality, which he credited to previous administrations he called “a mafia of power.”_x000D_
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in FoodWhat’s Coca-Cola’s first ready-to-drink alcohol beverage?
Answer: Lemon-Dou, Coca-Cola’s first ready-to-drink alcohol beverage, was launched in Japan in 2018. It was Coca-Cola’s first entry into the alcohol beverage market since the late 1970s when the company owned a winemaker in California. Coca-Cola announced its latest alcoholic product on June 13, 2022: a can of the iconic cocktail Jack & Coke. It…
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in PoliticsWhat’s Colombia’s Green Wave movement?
Answer: Colombia’s Green Wave movement to decriminalize abortion had a winning moment on Feb. 22, 2022, when Colombia’s top Constitutional Court ruled that abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law. The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Sept. 2021, and Argentina’s Congress…
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in PoliticsWhat are the 2021 Texas and Mexico abortion laws?
On Sept. 2021, a Texas law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy went into effect the same week Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled to decriminalize abortions.
