By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While at least 85 percent of Mexicans are aware that exposure to the sun can lead to skin cancer, less than 11 percent use sunscreen on a regular basis, according to the Mexican Dermatology Foundation (FMD). “That number is significantly lower than the comparable figure in other developed parts of the world,” said FMD president Rossana Janina
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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 Women across Mexico and throughout Latin America marked International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8, with marches and demonstrations demanding equality and an end to the growing problem of violence against women, or femicide. In Mexico City, women’s organizations marched on the main square, or Zócalo, where they painted the names of fatal victims of domestic violence and other
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XINHUA The novel coronavirus continued to slowly spread across Latin America Sunday, March 8, as countries in the region reported a gradual increase in Covid-19 cases. As of Saturday, March 7, Mexico had seven confirmed case of the disease, according to the nation’s Public Health Secretariat (SSP). An SSP spokesman said the cases had been detected in Mexico City, the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The strong and ever-growing bilateral relationship between India and Mexico was the focus of Indian Ambassador to Mexico Manpreet Vohra’s Republic Day speech during the diplomatic reception he and his wife Naseem Vohra offered at their residence on Monday, Jan. 27. “India and Mexico enjoy a close and friendly relationship, as well as a privileged association since
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XINHUA … More women are entering the workforce across Latin America, with an increase of 11 percent in the last 30 years…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Lomas de Chapultepec mansion that once belonged to Chinese-born imprisoned Mexican citizen Zhenli Ye Gon will be auctioned on Sunday, Aug.11, as programmed, said Ricardo Rodríguez Vargas, president of the Institute to Return to the People What Was Stolen From Them, officially known as Administration and Properties Alienation (SAE). Rodriguez Vargas made the announcement early Wednesday, Aug. 7, during Mexican
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This article is about Mexico’s new (literally from the Spanish) Law of Dominium Extinction or Expired Ownership Domain, approved last July 24 by the Mexican Senate and similar in some ways to the one known as Eminent Domain in the United States. The law is being questioned by a number of deputies such as Tatiana Clouthier (Morena)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What came as a shock to the Mexican political system last Friday, July 5, was not that the nation’s fiscal (attorney) general managed to get a judge to issue him yet another arrest warrant against former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin, but that the arrest warrant also included his mother, wife and sister, Gilda Austin,
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By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
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