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People & Culture
How the Prospera Digital e-banking program could put money in the hands of Mexico’s low-income families with just a few taps — and transform their lives in the process
In Mexico, the Prospera Digital e-banking program aims to open a whole new world to the country’s low-income families. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “Mexico’s digital money revolution.”
Travel
Located close to cosmopolitan Cancún and charming Isla Mujeres, the new Riu Dunamar at Playa Mujeres combines opportunities for cultural discovery with the pleasures of resort life
Wildlife
North America’s monarch butterfly population has more than tripled in Mexico this winter, despite reaching dangerously low numbers in the past
Wildlife
Here’s the good news about monarch butterflies: the area of its wintering grounds in Mexico in December 2014 increased by 69 per cent compared to December 2013.
Travel
In 1976, my husband’s grandparents solved one of the world’s great natural mysteries: the monarch butterfly migration. Four decades later, we retraced their journey.