XINHUA Latin America and the Caribbean’s foreign trade in 2020 registered its worst performance since the 2008 global financial crisis, mainly due to the covid-19 pandemic and its impact on economies, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said on Friday, Jan. 22. In its newly released annual report, International Trade Outlook for Latin America
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Sunday, Jan. 18, during a university inauguration in Guerrero, that Mexico would accept a lower number of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations so that poor countries could be given better access to the widely-successful coronavirus vaccine, as proposed by the United Nations. López Obrador had previously said that Mexico had a
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XINHUA Mexico — along with India, Ireland, Kenya and Norway — once again assumed responsibilities as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Jan. 4. The five nations’ two-year terms officially began on Jan. 1, but Monday was the first working day of the council for 2021 after the Christmas and New Year break. A flag
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of an international call to action to end sexual harassment against women, L’Oréal Paris has launched a global campaign, leading up to the worldwide observance of the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday, Nov. 25. In recognition of the fact that the United Nations has
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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XINHUA Just three days after the latest slaying of a news reporter in Mexico, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday, Nov. 2, called for the protection of journalists on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. “When journalists are targeted, societies as a whole pay a price. If we do not protect journalists, our
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By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a way of going off script when he is before an audience. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, he did it again when presenting his internet video discourse to the United Nations General Assembly. After patting himself and his government on the back for transitioning Mexico from a progressive international economy
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XINHUA EDITORIAL Seventy-five years ago, tormented by the scourge of war that twice brought untold miseries to mankind, countries around the world joined hands and built an international order and system with the United Nations at the core. As the most universal, representative and authoritative international organization, the United Nations has now become the most important multilateral arena to promote
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Former Presidents to Lose Legal Protection Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a petition to the Senate on Monday, Sept. 14, asking lawmakers to carry out a citizens’ consultation over whether to bring the five past presidents to trial, if charged. With this final request, there have now been three different attempts to bring one
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