XINHUA Nearly 20.6 million international tourists arrived in Mexico by air in 2022, up 46.3 percent from the previous year, the Tourism Secretariat announced on Sunday, Jan. 29. Most of these international tourists came from the United States, Canada and Colombia, collectively representing 15.6 million in total visitors, an increase of 39.5 percent compared to 2021, according to official figures.
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The identities of the 30 inmates who escaped have not yet been released
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XINHUA At least 18 people were killed Saturday, Sept. 10, when a tanker truck carrying fuel collided with a bus, catching fire on a highway in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the state’s Attorney General’s Office reported. The bus belonged to the Castanuelas Tours Company and was traveling from the municipality of Huejutla when the accident occurred on Kilometer 67
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XINHUA A caravan of about 1,000 migrants, the seventh since August, left southeastern Mexico on Tuesday, Aug. 30l for the U.S. border, local media reported. The caravan mainly included men from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, as well as hundreds of women and approximately 150 children, said local news reports. If the group meets up with others
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XINHUA A new caravan of about 500 migrants from Central and South American countries set off Monday, Aug. 22, from Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas with the aim of reaching the United States, local media reported. The caravan departed from Miguel Hidalgo Central Park in the city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala, where many migrants have been stranded
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XINHUA Reflooding has “complicated efforts” to recover 10 miners who have been trapped for nearly three weeks in a Coahuila coal mine in northern Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) admitted Monday, Aug. 22. Water levels inside the El Pinabete mine, in the town of Sabinas in Coahuil, rose again over the weekend as rescue efforts continued to no
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XINHUA The Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) agreed Thursday, Aug. 11, to raise the key benchmark interest rate for the 10th consecutive time, in anticipation of higher inflation in the short term. The new rate is 8.5 percent. Five members of the board voted unanimously to increase the target for the overnight interbank interest rate
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XINHUA Mexico’s renowned monarch butterflies, which each year make the arduous trek back and forth from Canada, are under grave threat from breeding habitat destruction and climate change, Mexican biologist Gabriela Jiménez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said in a recent interview. Calling for more government and NGO actions to protect the endangered species Jiménez told Xinhua
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XINHUA The Mexican government will take additional measures to counter rising inflation as part of the package against inflation and famine that took effect in May, Secretary of Finance Rogelio Ramirez de la O announced here Tuesday, Aug. 2. That package consisted of freezing the price on 24 basic products that Mexicans consume on a regular basis. However, despite that
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XINHUA Children living in impoverished areas are the most vulnerable group in Mexico due to a lack of adequate education services during the covid-19 pandemic, according to Maria Teresa Reyes Ruiz, a social sciences researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Most households suffered a drop in income or unemployment of at least one family member, impacting the
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