MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of Mexico’s most iconic and beloved colonial-era city, Oaxaca, has made a desperate public plea for federal authorities to declare a public health emergency over the mounds of uncollected garbage piling up in the city’s cobblestone streets.
Normally awash with tourists and known for its green-tinged stone buildings and vast culinary offerings, Oaxaca was left hamstrung after a neighboring town closed down a garbage dump that had taken the city’s refuse for decades.
With no place to take the trash, authorities in Oaxaca have desperately . . .
