By KYLIE MADRY Residents of the Mexican states of Hidalgo and Coahuila trekked to the polls on Sunday, Oct. 18, after the planned July elections were pushed back due to the covid-19 pandemic. Around 50,000 cast their vote Sunday – wearing required face masks – according to the National Electoral Institute (INE), totaling just over 40 percent turnout of eligible
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XINHUA Mexico’s post-pandemic economic recovery is losing strength after rallying in June, the U.S.-based Fitch Ratings agency warned on Wednesday, Oct. 14. “The latest data for Mexico suggest that the pace of economic recovery is slowing after a sharp rebound in June,” the agency said in a brief commentary. While “robust incoming data” in June and July pointed to higher
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The London-based biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca signed an agreement with Mexico’s Carlos Slim Foundation on Wednesday, Aug. 12, to produce a covid-19 vaccine in both Mexico and Argentina to be distributed without economic profits throughout Latin America. The experimental coronavirus vaccine, labled AZD1222, which was licensed by AstraZeneca from the University of Oxford, is currently
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