By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — One aspect of the covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent global economic that has universal impacted countries around the world is worker desperation. Here in Mexico, unemployment and underemployment have skyrocketed, and more than a million pay-rolled workers lost their job in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. And to make matters worse, now unscrupulous
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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Not the Best Start By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Allianz, the international medical insurance company my daughter works for, decided to send her for a week to the Dominican Republic (DR) to check out hospitals across the island, so I decided to tag along to keep her company and to get to know the country firsthand. As it turned
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This column is intended to be about the new Mexico City International Airport, now a topic of stiff controversy. But let me start elsewhere, with a different subject that seemingly has nothing to do with the airport, a Mexican political personality who, as a result of the July 1 election, plummeted from near-absolute power to a soon-to-be insignificant senator scrambling for scraps of
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