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Amid the ash and threat of evacuation, life goes on under Mexico’s most dangerous volcano

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SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico — Each spring, residents of this village tucked at the base of one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes trek up to a cave near its crater to make a peace offering. Their gifts of fruit, flowers and turkey cooked in sweet mole are meant to placate Popocatépetl, the nearly 18,000-foot-high volcano viewed by many here not just as a geological wonder, but also as a mythological being whose whims have long shaped the lives of those in its shadows.

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May 20, 2023 Disturbance - At 2:34 pm, the reporting party requested an officer in reference to a subject causing a disturbance at Timbers Apartments. Officer #18 took David Eguia, 03/2001, into custody for confirmed Kay County warrants for felony robbery.