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 {
   "Introduction": {
     "Background": {
-      "text": "<p>The site of several advanced Amerindian civilizations - including the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Maya, and Aztec - Mexico was conquered and colonized by Spain in the early 16th century. Administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain for three centuries, it achieved independence early in the 19th century. Elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON, but Enrique PENA NIETO regained the presidency for the PRI in 2012. Left-leaning antiestablishment politician and former mayor of Mexico City (2000-05) Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR, from the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), became president in December 2018.<br /><br />The global financial crisis in late 2008 caused a massive economic downturn in Mexico the following year, although growth returned quickly in 2010. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, high underemployment, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely indigenous population in the impoverished southern states. Since 2007, Mexico's powerful drug-trafficking organizations have engaged in bloody feuding, resulting in tens of thousands of drug-related homicides.</p>"
+      "text": "<p>The site of several advanced Amerindian civilizations - including the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Maya, and Aztec - Mexico was conquered and colonized by Spain in the early 16th century. Administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain for three centuries, it achieved independence early in the 19th century. Elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON, but Enrique PENA NIETO regained the presidency for the PRI in 2012. Left-leaning antiestablishment politician and former mayor of Mexico City (2000-05) Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR, from the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), became president in December 2018.<br><br>The global financial crisis in late 2008 caused a massive economic downturn in Mexico the following year, although growth returned quickly in 2010. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, high underemployment, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely indigenous population in the impoverished southern states. Since 2007, Mexico's powerful drug-trafficking organizations have engaged in bloody feuding, resulting in tens of thousands of drug-related homicides.</p>"
     }
   },
   "Geography": {
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
       "text": "<p>tsunamis along the Pacific coast, volcanoes and destructive earthquakes in the center and south, and hurricanes on the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean coasts</p><p><strong>volcanism:</strong> volcanic activity in the central-southern part of the country; the volcanoes in Baja California are mostly dormant; Colima (3,850 m), which erupted in 2010, is Mexico's most active volcano and is responsible for causing periodic evacuations of nearby villagers; it has been deemed a Decade Volcano by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to its explosive history and close proximity to human populations; Popocatepetl (5,426 m) poses a threat to Mexico City; other historically active volcanoes include Barcena, Ceboruco, El Chichon, Michoacan-Guanajuato, Pico de Orizaba, San Martin, Socorro, and Tacana; see note 2 under \"Geography - note\"</p>"
     },
     "Geography - note": {
-      "text": "<p><strong>note 1:</strong> strategic location on southern border of the US; Mexico is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean; up to 90% of the world's earthquakes and some 75% of the world's volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire</p> <p><strong>note 2:</strong> some of the world's most important food crops were first domesticated in Mexico; the \"Three Sisters\" companion plants - winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans - served as the main agricultural crops for various North American Indian groups; all three apparently originated in Mexico but then were widely disseminated through much of North America; avocado, amaranth, and chili peppers also emanate from Mexico, as does vanilla, the world's most popular aroma and flavor spice; although cherry tomatoes originated in Ecuador, their domestication in Mexico transformed them into the larger modern tomato<br /><br /><strong>note 3:&nbsp;</strong>the Sac Actun cave system at 348 km (216 mi) is the longest underwater cave in the world and the second longest cave worldwide, after Mammoth Cave in the United States (see \"Geography - note\" under United States)<br /><br /><strong>note 4:</strong> the prominent Yucatan Peninsula that divides the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea is shared by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; just on the northern coast of Yucatan, near the town of Chicxulub (pronounce cheek-sha-loob), lie the remnants of a massive crater (some 150 km in diameter and extending well out into the Gulf of Mexico); formed by an asteroid or comet when it struck the earth 66 million years ago, the impact is now widely accepted as initiating a worldwide climate disruption that caused a mass extinction of 75% of all the earth's plant and animal species - including the non-avian dinosaurs</p>"
+      "text": "<p><strong>note 1:</strong> strategic location on southern border of the US; Mexico is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean; up to 90% of the world's earthquakes and some 75% of the world's volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire</p> <p><strong>note 2:</strong> some of the world's most important food crops were first domesticated in Mexico; the \"Three Sisters\" companion plants - winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans - served as the main agricultural crops for various North American Indian groups; all three apparently originated in Mexico but then were widely disseminated through much of North America; avocado, amaranth, and chili peppers also emanate from Mexico, as does vanilla, the world's most popular aroma and flavor spice; although cherry tomatoes originated in Ecuador, their domestication in Mexico transformed them into the larger modern tomato<br><br><strong>note 3: </strong>the Sac Actun cave system at 348 km (216 mi) is the longest underwater cave in the world and the second longest cave worldwide, after Mammoth Cave in the United States (see \"Geography - note\" under United States)<br><br><strong>note 4:</strong> the prominent Yucatan Peninsula that divides the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea is shared by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; just on the northern coast of Yucatan, near the town of Chicxulub (pronounce cheek-sha-loob), lie the remnants of a massive crater (some 150 km in diameter and extending well out into the Gulf of Mexico); formed by an asteroid or comet when it struck the earth 66 million years ago, the impact is now widely accepted as initiating a worldwide climate disruption that caused a mass extinction of 75% of all the earth's plant and animal species - including the non-avian dinosaurs</p>"
     }
   },
   "People and Society": {
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         "text": "Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%; note -indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages (2005 est.)"
       },
       "printed major-language sample": {
-        "text": "<br />La Libreta Informativa del Mundo, la fuente indispensable de informaci&oacute;n b&aacute;sica. (Spanish)<br /><br />The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
+        "text": "<br>La Libreta Informativa del Mundo, la fuente indispensable de información básica. (Spanish)<br><br>The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
       }
     },
     "Religions": {
@@ -308,13 +308,13 @@
       }
     },
     "HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate": {
-      "text": "0.2% (2018 est.)"
+      "text": "0.4% (2020 est.)"
     },
     "HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS": {
-      "text": "230,000 (2018 est.)"
+      "text": "340,000 (2020 est.)"
     },
     "HIV/AIDS - deaths": {
-      "text": "4,000 (2017 est.)"
+      "text": "4,300 (2020 est.)"
     },
     "Major infectious diseases": {
       "degree of risk": {
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
       "vectorborne diseases": {
         "text": "dengue fever"
       },
-      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Mexico; sustained community spread means that people have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing; illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe with fatalities reported; as of 6 June 2021, Mexico has reported a total of 2,429,631<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> </span>cases of COVID-19 or 1,884.4 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 177.3 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 13 June 2021, 20.36% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
+      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Mexico; sustained community spread means that people have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing; illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe with fatalities reported; as of 19 July 2021, Mexico has reported a total of 2,659,137 cases of COVID-19 or 2,062.42 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 183.3 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 19 July 2021, 29.65% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
     },
     "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
       "text": "28.9% (2016)"
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
       "vectorborne diseases": {
         "text": "dengue fever"
       },
-      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Mexico; sustained community spread means that people have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing; illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe with fatalities reported; as of 6 June 2021, Mexico has reported a total of 2,429,631<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> </span>cases of COVID-19 or 1,884.4 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 177.3 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 13 June 2021, 20.36% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
+      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Mexico; sustained community spread means that people have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing; illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe with fatalities reported; as of 19 July 2021, Mexico has reported a total of 2,659,137 cases of COVID-19 or 2,062.42 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 183.3 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 19 July 2021, 29.65% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
     },
     "Waste and recycling": {
       "municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
       "daylight saving time": {
         "text": "+1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last Sunday in October"
       },
-      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> Mexico has four time zones<br /><br /><strong>etymology:</strong> named after the Mexica, the largest and most powerful branch of the Aztecs; the meaning of the name is uncertain"
+      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> Mexico has four time zones<br><br><strong>etymology:</strong> named after the Mexica, the largest and most powerful branch of the Aztecs; the meaning of the name is uncertain"
     },
     "Administrative divisions": {
       "text": "32 states (estados, singular - estado); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Cuidad de Mexico, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas"
@@ -567,18 +567,18 @@
         "text": "president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a single 6-year term; election last held on 1 July 2018 (next to be held in July 2024)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br /><em>2018:</em> Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR elected president; percent of vote - Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR (MORENA) 53.2%, Ricardo ANAYA (PAN) 22.3%, Jose Antonio MEADE Kuribrena (PRI) 16.4%, Jaime RODRIGUEZ Calderon 5.2% (independent), other 2.9%<br /><br /><em>2012:</em> Enrique PENA NIETO elected president; percent of vote - Enrique PENA NIETO (PRI) 38.2%, Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR (PRD) 31.6%, Josefina Eugenia VAZQUEZ Mota (PAN) 25.4%, other 4.8%"
+        "text": "<br><em>2018:</em> Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR elected president; percent of vote - Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR (MORENA) 53.2%, Ricardo ANAYA (PAN) 22.3%, Jose Antonio MEADE Kuribrena (PRI) 16.4%, Jaime RODRIGUEZ Calderon 5.2% (independent), other 2.9%<br><br><em>2012:</em> Enrique PENA NIETO elected president; percent of vote - Enrique PENA NIETO (PRI) 38.2%, Andres Manuel LOPEZ OBRADOR (PRD) 31.6%, Josefina Eugenia VAZQUEZ Mota (PAN) 25.4%, other 4.8%"
       }
     },
     "Legislative branch": {
       "description": {
-        "text": "bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Union consists of:<br />Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 32 directly elected in a single, nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 6-year terms)<br />Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 200 directly elected in a single, nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 3-year terms)"
+        "text": "bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Union consists of:<br>Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 32 directly elected in a single, nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 6-year terms)<br>Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 200 directly elected in a single, nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 3-year terms)"
       },
       "elections": {
-        "text": "<br />Senate - last held on 1 July 2018 (next to be held on 1 July 2024)<br />Chamber of Deputies - last held on 1 July 2018 (next to be held on 6 June 2021)"
+        "text": "<br>Senate - last held on 1 July 2018 (next to be held on 1 July 2024)<br>Chamber of Deputies - last held on 1 July 2018 (next to be held on 6 June 2021)"
       },
       "election results": {
-        "text": "<br />Senate - percent of vote by party - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MORENA 58, PAN 22, PRI 14, PRD 9, MC 7, PT 7, PES 5, PVEM 5, PNA/PANAL 1; composition - men 65, women 63, percent of women 49.3%<br />Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MORENA 193, PAN 79, PT 61, PES 58, PRI 42, MC 26, PRD 23, PVEM 17, PNA/PANAL 1; composition - men 259, women 241, percent of women 48.2%; note - total National Congress percent of women 48.4%; note - 6 June 2021 election results pending"
+        "text": "<br>Senate - percent of vote by party - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MORENA 58, PAN 22, PRI 14, PRD 9, MC 7, PT 7, PES 5, PVEM 5, PNA/PANAL 1; composition - men 65, women 63, percent of women 49.3%<br>Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MORENA 193, PAN 79, PT 61, PES 58, PRI 42, MC 26, PRD 23, PVEM 17, PNA/PANAL 1; composition - men 259, women 241, percent of women 48.2%; note - total National Congress percent of women 48.4%; note - 6 June 2021 election results pending"
       },
       "note": "<strong>note: </strong>as of the 2018 election, senators will be eligible for a second term and deputies up to 4 consecutive terms"
     },
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
       "note": "<strong>Note</strong>: in mid-February 2020, the Mexican president endorsed a bill on judicial reform, which proposes changes to 7 articles of the constitution and the issuance of a new Organic Law on the Judicial Branch of the Federation"
     },
     "Political parties and leaders": {
-      "text": "Citizen's Movement (Movimiento Ciudadano) or MC [Clemente CASTANEDA]<br />Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) or PRI [Claudia RUIZ Massieu]<br />It's For Mexico (Va Por Mexico) - alliance that includes PAN, PRI, PRD<br />Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo) or PT [Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]<br />Mexican Green Ecological Party (Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico) or PVEM [Carlos Alberto PUENTE Salas]<br />Movement for National Regeneration (Movimiento Regeneracion Nacional) or MORENA [Andres Manuel LOPEZ Obrador]<br />National Action Party (Partido Accion Nacional) or PAN [Damian ZEPEDA Vidales]<br />Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica) or PRD [Manuel GRANADOS]<br />Together We Make History (Juntos Hacemos Historia) - alliance that includes MORENA, PT, PVEM"
+      "text": "Citizen's Movement (Movimiento Ciudadano) or MC [Clemente CASTANEDA]<br>Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) or PRI [Claudia RUIZ Massieu]<br>It's For Mexico (Va Por Mexico) - alliance that includes PAN, PRI, PRD<br>Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo) or PT [Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]<br>Mexican Green Ecological Party (Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico) or PVEM [Carlos Alberto PUENTE Salas]<br>Movement for National Regeneration (Movimiento Regeneracion Nacional) or MORENA [Andres Manuel LOPEZ Obrador]<br>National Action Party (Partido Accion Nacional) or PAN [Damian ZEPEDA Vidales]<br>Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica) or PRD [Manuel GRANADOS]<br>Together We Make History (Juntos Hacemos Historia) - alliance that includes MORENA, PT, PVEM"
     },
     "International organization participation": {
       "text": "APEC, Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CD, CDB, CE (observer), CELAC, CSN (observer), EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-3, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-5, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAFTA, NAM (observer), NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance, Paris Club (associate), PCA, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
       "consulate(s)": {
         "text": "Albuquerque (NM), Anchorage (AK), Boise (ID), Brownsville (TX), Calexico (CA), Del Rio (TX), Detroit, Douglas (AZ), Eagle Pass (TX), Fresno (CA), Indianapolis (IN), Kansas City (MO), Las Vegas, Little Rock (AR), McAllen (TX), Minneapolis (MN), New Orleans, Omaha (NE), Orlando (FL), Oxnard (CA), Philadelphia, Portland (OR), Presidio (TX), Raleigh (NC), Salt Lake City, San Bernardino (CA), Santa Ana (CA), Seattle, Tucson (AZ), Yuma (AZ); note - Washington DC Consular Section is located in a separate building from the Mexican Embassy and has jurisdiction over DC, parts of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia"
       },
-      "note": "<strong>&nbsp;</strong>"
+      "note": "<strong> </strong>"
     },
     "Diplomatic representation from the US": {
       "chief of mission": {
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     },
     "Telecommunication systems": {
       "general assessment": {
-        "text": "<p>with a large population and relatively low broadband and mobile penetration, Mexico&rsquo;s telecom sector has potential for growth; adequate telephone service for business and government; improving quality and increasing mobile cellular availability, with mobile subscribers far outnumbering fixed-line subscribers; relatively low broadband and mobile penetration, potential for growth and international investment; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable; 5G development&nbsp;slow given the existing capabilities of LTE;&nbsp;IXP in Mexico City; exporter of computers and broadcasting equipment to USA, and importer of same from China (2021)</p> (2020)"
+        "text": "<p>with a large population and relatively low broadband and mobile penetration, Mexico’s telecom sector has potential for growth; adequate telephone service for business and government; improving quality and increasing mobile cellular availability, with mobile subscribers far outnumbering fixed-line subscribers; relatively low broadband and mobile penetration, potential for growth and international investment; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable; 5G development slow given the existing capabilities of LTE; IXP in Mexico City; exporter of computers and broadcasting equipment to USA, and importer of same from China (2021)</p> (2020)"
       },
       "domestic": {
         "text": "competition has spurred the mobile-cellular market; fixed-line teledensity exceeds 18 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is about 95 per 100 persons; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations (2019)"