XINHUA Mexico’s Azteca Soccer Stadium, the stage for the 1970 and 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, is set to reopen to the public after a 14-month shutdown due to the covid-19 pandemic. The 88,000-capacity venue will host the Liga MX quarterfinals featuring tenants Club America and Tijuana against yet-to-be-determined opponents on May 15 and 16. “It is with great pleasure
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XINHUA Private-sector analysts are now predicting that Mexico’s economy will grow 4.8 percent in 2021, up from the 4.5 percent previously projected, a survey by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) announced Monday, May 3. For 2022, analysts maintained their forecast for Mexican gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 2.7 percent, according to the poll of 38 leading financial groups
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XINHUA Mexico will being production of Russia’s Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine as early as May, Russian officials said Wednesday. April 28, during Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard’s visit to Moscow. “Mexico is the first and only state on the North American continent to have registered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a press conference
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday, April 26, that there are no signs in the country of a third wave of covid-19, but called on the population to maintain protective measures. “There is no upward trend that could signify that there is going to be a third wave,” the president said during his regular daily press
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XINHUA Hundreds of migrants who had been stranded in Honduras, including at least 500 Haitians, have set out on their way to the United States, local authorities said Saturday, April 24. “They already left. (The) Immigration (authorities) helped them,” Dinora Sandoval, deputy mayor of the Trojes community on the border with Nicaragua, said. More than a week ago, about 2,000
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Wednesday, April 21, that his government will strengthen surveillance actions on the country’s southern border in order to offer more protection to migrants, especially minors. During his regular morning press conference, the president explained that he had held a meeting with representatives of the southern states of Chiapas, Campeche and
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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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XINHUA China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, held talks via video link on Tuesday, March 20, with Oscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico’s Senate, with both sides pledging enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations. Calling China and Mexico “good friends and good partners,” Li said Sino-Mexico relations have developed in an all-around way, as indicated by the sound momentum in
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XINHUA The Argentine e-commerce sales company Mercado Libre announced on Tuesday, April 6, that it will invest $1.1 billion in Mexico in 2021, mainly to expand its warehouse facilities amid an increasing demand generated by the covid-19 pandemic. The general director of Mercado Libre México David Geisen explained in a virtual conference that the investment for 2021 is the largest
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XINHUA Leticia Robles makes a meager living by selling artisan soaps made of aromatic essential oils. At least, she did until the covid-19 pandemic dried up tourism in Huichapan, a small village in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. Designated a “Magic Town” by Mexico’s Tourism Secretariat, Huichapan was until the covid-19 outbreak in February 2020 a tourist magnet known
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