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The Fifth Floor: Mexico's apology to the Mayans

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Native Americans dressed in colourful traditional costumes celebrate on a cobbled street with colourfully painted buildings

14/05/2021 GMT

Mexico's apology to the Mayans

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A belated apology from Mexico’s president, but is it too little and too late?

Last week, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them since independence. But with elections looming, some are questioning the timing of the apology. The BBC's Lourdes Heredia discusses this historic moment. 

Targetting Afghan girls 
Zuhal Ahad of BBC Afghan shares her experiences of reporting on the bomb attack outside a girls' school last weekend which left more than 80 dead, many of them schoolgirls. It happened in her childhood neighbourhood in Kabul, which has seen several devastating attacks in recent years.

America's 'green gold rush' 
Zhaoyin Feng, who reports from Washington for BBC Chinese, tells us about her trip to Oklahoma to report on the latest frontier in America's so-called marijuana gold rush. It's attracted many Chinese American investors and Chinese immigrant workers. 

Saving Kenya's turtles 
Kenya's Watamu coast is famous for its wildlife, including four different types of sea turtle. But turtle numbers are declining due to poaching and loss of habitat. Njoroge Muigai of BBC Nairobi visited Watamu recently to meet the people working to save the turtles. 

Who becomes an Islamic extremist?  
BBC Indonesian's Silvano Hajid investigates the role of social media in recruiting young Indonesians to commit terrorist attacks through the story of a young man called Akbar.  He was only 16 years old when he tried to join a group affiliated with so-called Islamic State in Syria.

Image: The festival of Valle del Maiz in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Credit: Kobby Dagan/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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