XINHUA Mexico’s light vehicle sales fell to a five-year low in 2019, after tumbling 7.7 percent compared to the previous year, the country’s National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi) said Tuesday, Jan. 7. In 2019, the industry sold a total of 1,317,727 units compared to 1,426,926 units in 2018. According to the Inegi, these figures are the worst for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Snafu over Gay Zapata Painting Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata was murdered 100 years ago, on April 10, 1919. Over the last century, he became a Mexican Revolution icon, a magic figure with a holy aura. But all hell broke loose this week at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) when, in an exhibit to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO-Trump: The Art of the Deal The smoke screen left behind on Thursday, Dec 5, by the noisy visit of U.S. Attorney General William Barr cleared rapidly over the next three days as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) practiced both the art of the deal and quid pro quo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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XINHUA … Mexico’s economy underwent a recession in the first half of 2019 and stagnated in the third quarter…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Nearly 85 percent of all adult deaths in Mexico are the result of non-transmittable chronic diseases, and over half of those deaths are due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to internist Guillermo Fanghänel Salmón, head of the Hospital Ángeles Mocel’s Clinic for Diabetes and Obesity. “In total, about 600,000 Mexicans die each year, and more than 30
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Fear does not ride on a burro; it flies at the speed of sound! And spreading fear of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) economic policies seems to be the leading reason that Mexico’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has slumped markedly, to the point of reaching a minimal growth of 0.1 percent for the second quarter of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Let the fireworks light up the cloudy Mexican economics sky. The great news deserves the glow in the heavens. The economy grew in the second quarter of 2019 by 0.1 percent and, according to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which carries out the official econometrics gaging, “there is no recession.” The news was made
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s the end of July and figures are beginning to trickle in regarding the state of Mexico’s economy. The first one landed on Friday, July 26, from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which is the nation’s foremost authority in gauging financial and industrial trends and the news is not good since the Gross Domestic
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There’s no denying that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO, as he likes to be called) is charismatic, and he definitely puts on a great show. In fact, his daily song and dance act at the National Palace has become a standing-room-only extravaganza with “sold-out” crowds of politically developmentally challenged proselytes who see him as
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