XINHUA The Mexican Army airlifted 15.2 tons of humanitarian aid to Honduras for those affected by Hurricanes Iota and Eta, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) reported Saturday, Dec. 12. In a statement, SRE said that a C-130 Hercules cargo plane from the Mexican Air Force had been responsible for taking the shipment of food and water to the Central
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XINHUA Having won last month the first round of a legal faceoff with the United States — the return of the country’s former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, who had been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges in Los Angeles in October — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) upped the ante Monday, Dec. 7, by demanding the
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XINHUA Consumer confidence in Mexico declined in November compared to the previous month after five months of increase, dragged down by greater pessimism about the economy and the covid-19 pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said Friday, Dec. 4. The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) stood at 36.7 units in November, one point lower than in October and
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Dec. 4, urged residents in the densely-populated capital Mexico City to stay home and limit their end-of-year festivities, amid a rise in cases of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19). “If we don’t have anything really important to do, let’s not go out into the streets,” AMLO said during his regular
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XINHUA A Mexican federal judge sentenced two men to nine and 12 years in prison, respectively, for transporting 118 undocumented Central American migrants via cargo truck through southeastern Mexico, the federal Fiscal General’s Office said on Saturday, Dec. 5. According to the Mexican prosecutor’s office, the judge, based in the state of Chiapas, ruled that the two individuals were guilty
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XINHUA Six people were killed in a series of shootouts on the night of Wednesday in small border towns between Mexico’s central state of Michoacán and neighboring Jalisco, local police reported Thursday, Dec, 3. The Michoacan Public Security Secretariat said via Twitter that law enforcement agencies found six bodies when they were responding to reports of gunfire in the towns
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XINHUA Vehicle sales in Mexico rose 13 percent in November compared to the previous month, for seven consecutive months of growth following the economic impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Mexican distributors sold 95,485 vehicles in November, compared to 84,307 units the previous month, according to Inegi.
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XINHUA The Mexican economy faces a “faltering” recovery process with a tendency toward weakness, especially in the manufacturing sector, the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF) said Tuesday, Dec. 1. In its monthly economic analysis, the private sector institute noted that the IMEF manufacturing index declined 1.1 points in November compared to the previous month, to settle at 48.5 units,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday, Nov. 30, that “Mexico is in bad shape” with the covid-19 pandemic, and called for immediate government action to curb the surging cases, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his team seem to have missed the memo. “The number of increasing cases and
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XINHUA Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday, Nov. 27, that he was “unjustly” detained at the airport in the capital city of Tegucigalpa due to have $18,000 in cash in his bag. “I have been unjustly detained at the Toncontín International Airport when I was about to travel to Mexico for a PT seminar,” Zelaya said on Twitter.
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