XINHUA The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week warned of a “dire” rise in hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the number of people suffering from hunger in the region grew by 4 million between 2020 and 2021 amid the covid-19 pandemic. From its regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile,
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report released by the Small Arms Survey, an organization based out of Geneva with a specialization in tracking violent deaths around the world, Mexico is the only nation in Latin America that’s regressed in its pursuit of peacefulness, growing from 10.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004 to more than triple that –
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By MARK LORENZANA Drug treatments in Mexico for methamphetamine use have already outnumbered those for alcohol, showing a sharp rise of the synthetic drug throughout the country, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In its World Drug Report 2022, which was presented at the international level on Monday, June 27, the agency revealed that the use
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Sinaloa-based, all-male ballet troupe Males on Pointe is slated to present “Men in Tutus” at Mexico City’s Esperanza Iris Theater on Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19. The troupe, which is considered to be the first of its kind in Latin America, is dedicated to comic ballet for men in pointe shoes. Organized by the Directorate
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By MARK LORENZANA According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Sunday, June 12, the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is shifting the country to a 1970s industrial policy” and has resorted to “greater state intervention” by targeting privately owned energy firms legally operating in Mexico and “backing state-run energy giants.” The WSJ
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A caravan of several thousand Latin American migrants, including many from Venezuela, began slowly winding its way north on Monday, June 6, from Tapachula, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, in the hopes of reaching the U.S. border just as the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, concludes. According to some estimates, the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico is known internationally for its privileged geography and variety of climates that make it one of the top tourist destinations. Its diversity is such that, it is possible to find humid forests, mountain ranges, evergreen valleys, deserts and the warm marine waters of two oceans, all in the same country. The Rivera Maya region,
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a growing number of Latin America’s leftist leaders join forces, threatening to boycott the upcoming Ninth Summit of the Americas that is slated to take place in Los Angeles from June 6 through June 10, unless it includes the participation of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the once-crucial hemispheric meeting could potentially become irrelevant. Both Mexican
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PUBLIFIX BOGOTA, Colombia — Between Sunday, April 24, and Wednesday, April 27, the nonprofit Latimpacto is slated to host its first international conference in Cartagena, Colombia, to explore ways to jumpstart fresh investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The multinational forum is aimed at bringing together the most relevant actors in impact generation, including corporations, investment funds, grantmaking foundations,
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By IMTIAZ AHMED DHAKA, Bangladesh — Although two-way combined trade between Mexico and Bangladesh currently amounts to less than $340 million a year, that country’s ambassador to Mexico said last week that the South Asian nation could be exporting as much as $500 million a year in readymade garments to the Latin American nation by the end of 2024. As
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