XINHUA Private analysts estimated the Mexico’s economy will grow by as much as 4.5 percent in 2021, up from the 3.67 percent previously projected, a survey by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) showed on Monday, April 5. For 2022, analysts slightly raised the forecast for Mexican gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 2.7 percent from 2.6 percent, according to
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XINHUA As more and more undocumented migrants pour across the U.S. southern border, the political faceoff in Washington between Republicans and Democrats continues to intensify. In February, over 100,000 migrants entered the United States from the Mexican border, an increase of 28 percent compared to January, according to U.S. government figures. Republicans are seizing the chance to pounce on U.S.
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XINHUA Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the weekend urged the U.S. federal government to take action to end the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. During a press conference in Weslaco near the U.S.-Mexico border, the governor called on U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to take “immediate action” to end the humanitarian crisis. “Operation Lone Star
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XINHUA Discoveries at the legendary Sanxingdui ruins in southwest China show that the region’s ancient Shu state civilization shared similarities with the Maya, according to the director of the Chichén Itzá archaeological site, Marco Antonio Santos. The Sanxingdui ruins, located in the city of Guanghan, about 60 kilometers from Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, belonged to the Shu Dynasty
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XINHUA U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 25, that he had picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country’s diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border. Biden made the announcement at the White House, saying of Harris that nobody “is better qualified to
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XINHUA A police convoy was ambushed Thursday afternoon in Coatepec Harinas, a town in central State of Mexico (Edoméx)¿, killing 13 officers, according to local government reports. According to the state’s Security Secretary Rodrigo Martinez-Celis, members of the local police and the prosecutor’s office were ambushed while patrolling. Eight police officers and five prosecutors were killed in the attack, the
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XINHUA The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Tuesday, March 16, that the number of immigrants attempting to enter the United States through its southern border is expected to reach the highest level in two decades. The statement came amid a recent surge in unaccompanied migrant children making the trip with the aim of reuniting with
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XINHUA Mexico has amassed seven weeks with a decline in active covid-19 cases as well as deaths, but the country should not lower its guard against the risk of a third outbreak, warned Public Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer on Tuesday, March 16. Alcocer also said that the Mexican government is refining its strategy for opening schools a year after they
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XINHUA A global shortage of a semiconductor chips that has plagued automakers and put the brakes on North American vehicle rollouts since late 2020, could end by mid-year, but will still cause a drop in automotive production, the president of Mexico’s National Auto Parts Industry (INA) Oscar Albin said Monday, March 8. During a virtual press conference, Albin said the
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XINHUA Mexico could return to “economic normality” by the end of June, with employment at the levels registered before the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Friday, March 5. Before the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the number of workers registered with the Mexican Social Security
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