XINHUA Armed assailants attacked a rehabilitation center in the central Mexican town of Irapuato on Wednesday, July 1, killing 24 people and injuring another seven, local media reported. The afternoon attack targeted a rehabilitation center for young drug addicts in the community of Arandas, near Irapuato in the state of Guanajuato, local daily Correo quoted Irapuato Police Chief Pedro Cortés
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XINHUA The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) officially entered into force on Wednesday, July 1, replacing the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Today marks the beginning of a new and better chapter for trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada,” U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer said in a statement, adding that the USMCA contains “significant improvements and
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XINHUA The UN General Assembly on Wednesday, June 17, elected Mexico, India, Ireland and Norway as non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two-year term. Mexico ran uncontested for the position. One non-permanent seat remains to be filled. Kenya and Djibouti, neither of which won the required two-third majority on Wednesday, will enter a run-off on Thursday, June 18,
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XINHUA Mexico and the United States have agreed to extend a ban on nonessential cross-border travel by land until July 21, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said Tuesday, June 17. The decision to extend the ban, which began on March 21, by another 30 days followed an assessment of the outbreaks that are developing
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XINHUA Mexico has formally nominated its veteran trade official Jesús Seade Kuri to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thus becoming the first member state to announce a candidate for the post since the WTO officially launched the selection process on Monday, June 8. According to a biographical note posted on the WTO website, Seade
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XINHUA Governments across the world must act urgently to prevent and tackle the rising rates of violence against women and girls during the covid-19 crisis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said Friday, May 22. The UNDP said that, given a rise in femicides and assaults on women, all governments must how put “stronger measures in place,” such as designating
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XINHUA Seventeen people were killed after drinking adulterated alcohol in Mexico’s central-eastern state of Puebla, local authorities said on Tuesday, May 12. The victims died in the municipality of Chiconcuautla, a town located about 200 kilometers northeast of the nation’s capital, Mexico City. The city council declared a health emergency following the incident, saying local authorities have launched an investigation
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday that he “was confident” that the country will see a drop in the rate of novel coronavirus infections soon and will unveil a plan this week for resuming economic activity following the lockdown. The government’s strategy for flattening the curve of infections has been effective, López Obrador said during
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XINHUA While the Mexican government has admitted that at least 500,000 workers have already lost their jobs due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Mexican-based HR Ratings is predicting twice that many jobs will be lost in the second quarter of 2020. On Wednesday, May 8, the agency projected a 36 percent nosedive in Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the
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XINHUA Former Mexico international midfielder Manuel Negrete said Thursday, May 7, that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 61-year-old, now the mayor of Coyoacán — a municipality in the south of Mexico City — said he felt well and is resting at home under doctors’ orders. “I want to share with you that I tested positive for COVID-19,”
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