XINHUA Hundreds of migrants who had been stranded in Honduras, including at least 500 Haitians, have set out on their way to the United States, local authorities said Saturday, April 24. “They already left. (The) Immigration (authorities) helped them,” Dinora Sandoval, deputy mayor of the Trojes community on the border with Nicaragua, said. More than a week ago, about 2,000
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Wednesday, April 21, that his government will strengthen surveillance actions on the country’s southern border in order to offer more protection to migrants, especially minors. During his regular morning press conference, the president explained that he had held a meeting with representatives of the southern states of Chiapas, Campeche and
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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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XINHUA China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, held talks via video link on Tuesday, March 20, with Oscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico’s Senate, with both sides pledging enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations. Calling China and Mexico “good friends and good partners,” Li said Sino-Mexico relations have developed in an all-around way, as indicated by the sound momentum in
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XINHUA The Argentine e-commerce sales company Mercado Libre announced on Tuesday, April 6, that it will invest $1.1 billion in Mexico in 2021, mainly to expand its warehouse facilities amid an increasing demand generated by the covid-19 pandemic. The general director of Mercado Libre México David Geisen explained in a virtual conference that the investment for 2021 is the largest
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XINHUA Leticia Robles makes a meager living by selling artisan soaps made of aromatic essential oils. At least, she did until the covid-19 pandemic dried up tourism in Huichapan, a small village in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. Designated a “Magic Town” by Mexico’s Tourism Secretariat, Huichapan was until the covid-19 outbreak in February 2020 a tourist magnet known
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XINHUA Private analysts estimated the Mexico’s economy will grow by as much as 4.5 percent in 2021, up from the 3.67 percent previously projected, a survey by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) showed on Monday, April 5. For 2022, analysts slightly raised the forecast for Mexican gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 2.7 percent from 2.6 percent, according to
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XINHUA As more and more undocumented migrants pour across the U.S. southern border, the political faceoff in Washington between Republicans and Democrats continues to intensify. In February, over 100,000 migrants entered the United States from the Mexican border, an increase of 28 percent compared to January, according to U.S. government figures. Republicans are seizing the chance to pounce on U.S.
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XINHUA Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the weekend urged the U.S. federal government to take action to end the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. During a press conference in Weslaco near the U.S.-Mexico border, the governor called on U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to take “immediate action” to end the humanitarian crisis. “Operation Lone Star
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XINHUA Discoveries at the legendary Sanxingdui ruins in southwest China show that the region’s ancient Shu state civilization shared similarities with the Maya, according to the director of the Chichén Itzá archaeological site, Marco Antonio Santos. The Sanxingdui ruins, located in the city of Guanghan, about 60 kilometers from Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, belonged to the Shu Dynasty
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