By RICARDO CASTILLO First Coronavirus Case in Mexico Mexico’s Health Secretariat was notified on Saturday, Feb. 1, by the Los Angeles International Airport medical authorities of the confirmed case of a 37-year-old Chinese national and Wuhan native who had visited Mexico as of Jan. 21. Taxi service company Uber acknowledged that the infected person used at least two of its
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Real Border Wall at Guatemala While Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has consistently rejected the idea that there is a crisis at Mexico’s Guatemalan border, new caravans of various sizes continue to arrive there, looking to cross through Mexico to the United States. Their crossing, however, is being impeded by the armed Mexican National Guardsmen,
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XINHUA Mexico’s government is investigating the possible sabotage of its liquefied petroleum gas distribution network by competitors of the state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Jan. 20. “This has not been proven, so that’s why it’s a hypothesis that the culprits don’t want Pemex to have gas so the competition
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Dos Bocas Bubble Bursts The news was sensational. Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Zhi Qingqiao told reporters during the celebration of a China Day event organized by Mexico’s Economy Secretariat on Monday, Jan.13, that Chinese banks were investing $600 million in the Dos Bocas Refinery, currently under construction in the southeastern state of Tabasco. Immediately after
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By RICARDO CASTILLO 2020 News Forecasts An old adage used to say that someday news would travel so fast that we would know the facts about a news item even before it happened. I’ve got news for you; that’s no longer an adage. Hence, here’s a vague glimpse of the shape of news to come in Mexico during 2020, which
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By RICARDO CASTILLO “Iron Lady” Named Tax Collector Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez was appointed as Mexico’s new Tributary Administration Service (SAT) director on Thursday, Dec. 18, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). She replaces Margarita Ríos-Farjat, now the 11th member of the Supreme Court of the Nation. Buenrostro (whose last name literally means Good Face) was promoted to the
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XINHUA Mexico’s government may turn to developing its significant lithium deposits, but only after its oil industry is back on its feet, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday, Dec. 13. That decision is mainly due to budget constraints that require the government to focus on recovering oil output before investing in other areas, AMLO told reporters at his
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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 ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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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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