By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since it first opened its doors as a private hotel for a discerning public in 1957, Las Brisas, Acapulco’s premiere luxury resort destination, has always been about seclusion and indulgence. For decades, the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Ringo Starr and even John F. Kennedy would make unpublicized visits to the hotel’s exclusive
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) addressed concerns surrounding the nationwide distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in a video posted to social media on Sunday, Dec. 27. Political opponents of AMLO previously accused the Mexican president and his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), of monopolizing vaccine doses, and demanded that states and private citizens be
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By KELIN DILLON Employees of Mexican consulates in the United States, outraged over massive layoffs during the holiday season, are calling on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to find a solution to their problems. The layoffs are the result of the U.S. government refusing to renew the employees’ A-2 visas. The A-2 visa allows foreign officials to enter
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By KELIN DILLON International attention was brought to the Mexican government’s mishandling of nation’s covid resurgence in a New York Times article published on Monday, Dec. 21, by Natalie Kitroeff. The Mexican government had reassured its constituents that Mexico City had not reached case levels high enough to re-enter the red zone during a briefing on Dec. 4. However, according
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By KELIN DILLON The Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (Sectur) revealed that there was a 44 percent drop in foreign tourism to Mexico during 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Projections from Sectur indicated this year will end with 25 million tourists having entered Mexico. This figure stands in stark contrast to the 45 million foreigners who vacationed in Mexico during
Read moreXINHUA Mexican authorities said on Friday, Dec. 18, that they would re-impose lockdown measures in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) amid surging covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. With hospital capacity close to 75 percent, a level similar to that of June, and year-end festivities around the corner, the measures are aimed at reducing the spread and curbing the
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, a party with over 100 attendees was broken up by authorities early in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 14, for violating citywide mandates on large gatherings. In a video uploaded to social media, the partygoers were seen being forced out of an illegally operated basement venue at Palmas 810
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By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By KYLIE MADRY Dr. AMLO’s In Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported testing negative for covid-19 Wednesday, Oct. 21, following positive cases among several of his cabinet members over the past week. He threw in his two cents at his morning press conference, telling Mexicans to eat healthy to avoid catching the virus. “Don’t eat in excess, don’t
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