BMW to Open Electric Car Plant in San Luis Potosí
The new electric car plant will have a maximum production capacity of 175,000 cars annually
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Energizer Helps Mexicans Recharge Their Batteries This Season
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Sure, we all know that when it comes to getting that emergency flashlight in good working order before a family camping trip or making Junior’s toy race car hit the parquet floors with full force, there is nothing more reliable than a pair of good old Energizer batteries. Energizer, which has been lighting the way for TV
Read more3,622 Health Workers in Mexico Have Died of Covid-19
By MARK LORENZANA In the last two years, 3,622 workers from the health sector of Mexico’s federal government have died of the covid-19 virus. Among these health workers were doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and administrative staff. A report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, Oct. 3, revealed that from March 12, 2020, to March 12, 2022, 2,746 doctors employed by three government agencies
Read moreAlleged Crime Boss Falls in Nuevo León
By MARK LORENZANA An alleged criminal leader accused of working for the Los Zetas Cartel in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí was arrested on the night of Thursday, Sept. 22, in García, Nuevo León. Members of the Mexican Army, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the National Guard (GN) carried out the arrest of Alfredo Alemán Narváez,
Read moreCuban Doctors in Mexico May Be Victims of Human Trafficking
By MARK LORENZANA The arrival of Cuban doctors in Mexico will continue as long as there is a demand for specialists, said Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), as more Cuban physicians were deployed in the country on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — this time in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Campeche. Around 50 Cuban doctors arrived
Read moreAMLO: Foreign Companies Can Invest in Solar Energy Only through CFE
By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Thursday, July 14, in his daily press conference that there is strong interest from foreign investors to put up solar power plants in the country, but for this to happen control will be given to Mexico’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener), and the main partner will be the Federal
Read moreCRE Halts Iberdrola Wind Farm Operation in Guanajuato
By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) prevented Spanish energy company Iberdrola from operating a wind farm in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. Iberdrola had invested a total of $150 million in the wind farm. According to the CRE, its decision to stop the wind farm’s operations stemmed from a breach in permit that originally allowed Iberdrola to
Read moreViolence in Zacatecas Escalates with Abductions, Killings
By MARK LORENZANA At least three people were taken at gunpoint from a bar by armed men at dawn on Saturday, June 18, in the municipal seat of Jerez de García Salinas, in Zacatecas, a state in northcentral Mexico. According to local reports, at least six individuals broke into the bar, firing shots, and proceeded to search the tables to
Read moreOn the Mark: Juan Toscano-Anderson Is Coming to Mexico
By MARK LORENZANA I saw a couple of pictures of Golden State Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson the other day while mindlessly scrolling through the Facebook app on my phone, checking updates on the ongoing National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs, as well as updates from my favorite boxing websites. The photos of Toscano-Anderson were actually part of a promotional post from
Read moreNo End in Sight for Mexico’s Deadliest Pandemic
OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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