XINHUA Mexico will participate in clinical trials of a vaccine being developed in Italy against the novel coronavirus (covid-19), Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, Aug. 25. “We are very grateful to Italy,” Ebrard said at a press conference, accompanied by Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and authorities from the health sector. Italy’s Lazzaro Spallanzani
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS By now, we should all be used to wearing face masks when going outside. (Plastic face shields provide added protection.) And hand sanitizer — composed of at least 60 percent alcohol — should be our Number One accessory of choice. But just because we pile on the PPE before heading out the door does not mean we
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s Virtual Powwow with G-20 Leaders In what was his first international encounter — even if only virtual — with the Group of 20 (G-20) world leaders on Thursday, March 26, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) vowed the nation’s solidarity with all affected nations and explained his point of view as to how to proceed
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XINHUA The incidence of Covid-19 cases continued to climb in Latin America this week, with Mexico reporting its eighth confirmed case on Tuesday, March 10, a German citizen in Puebla who recently traveled to Italy. Mexico is also conducting tests on at least 40 people who came in contact with the victim Meanwhile, the region’s biggest country, Brazil, reported Tuesday
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XINHUA The Mexican government announced on Friday the country’s first case of COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, on Friday, Feb. 28. Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez said in a news conference that a 35-year-old man had tested positive for the virus. The patient, who had recently traveled to northern Italy, tested positive in two separate tests on Thursday, Feb.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Migrants Try to Barge into Mexico Throngs of Central American migrants Sunday, Jan. 19, continued to gather along the Guatemalan border on Sunday, Jan. 19, with the intent of moving through Mexico to the United States. On Saturday. Jan. 18, approximately 1,500 of the mostly Honduran migrants attempted to stage their first show of force
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By RICH GRANT With 25 million visitors a year, New York’s Central Park is the most popular green space in the United States – and the most recognizable. More than 200 films have been shot here. From romantic “Annie Hall” to blood-ridden “Death Wish,” from tender “Love Story” to brutal “Fatal Attraction,” Central Park is one of the biggest Hollywood
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of a global yearlong commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death the great Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, Mexico City’s historic Palacio de la Autonomía is hosting an extraordinary interactive and immersive multimedia exhibit on the life and works of the Renaissance master. The exhibit, titled “Da Vinci Experience,” was created by the Italian
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By RICH GRANT It was a wild, cold, blowing October afternoon in Charlevoix, Michigan, and as I crossed the street I heard a woman say to her friend, “Is that snow? Oh, thank heavens! Now we can finally get our town back.” I knew what she meant. I was a stranger here, but even on a first visit,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … A signature scent and a flawless, don’t-mess-with-me lip color can help rev up your spirits and amplify your social clout…
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