XINHUA Argentine international midfielder Matias Kranevitter has left Zenit Saint-Petersburg to join reigning Mexican champion Monterrey. The 26-year-old Kranevitter agreed to personal terms of a four-year deal after Monterrey reportedly paid the Russian club $6 million. “We continue our search to have the best possible team to meet our objectives,” the Liga MX club said in a statement late Sunday,
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XINHUA Hong Kong and Mexico signed a bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) to strengthen mutual economic ties, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday, Jan. 24. The agreement, signed in Davos, Switzerland, one day earlier by representatives of the two sides on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, is intended to
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XINHUA Five men were sentenced to six and a half years in prison each for trafficking 785 undocumented migrants in cargo trucks, the Mexican Fiscal General’s Office said on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Two of the men were convicted of transporting 396 migrants and three of transporting 389 migrants, the office said in a press release. All five were arrested in
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XINHUA Honduras is preparing for the arrival this week of at least 1,900 nationals deported from Mexico for trying to enter illegally on their way to the United States, the Honduran Ambassador to Mexico Alden Rivera said Tuesday, Jan. 21. Rivera said Mexican authorities said two groups of Hondurans attempted to sneak into southern Mexico from neighboring Guatemala at two
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XINHUA Mexico’s government is investigating the possible sabotage of its liquefied petroleum gas distribution network by competitors of the state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Jan. 20. “This has not been proven, so that’s why it’s a hypothesis that the culprits don’t want Pemex to have gas so the competition
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XINHUA There’s no denying that 2019 was a turbulent one for Latin America, with protests, violent clashes and a fierce tug of war between conservative and progressive currents in countries long considered bastions of stability. But as the region staggers into 2020 with stagnant or even shrinking growth, many liberal observers are hoping that the first year of this new
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XINHUA Mexico City has added a fleet of 63 Chinese-made electric trolleybuses to its public transportation system, taking one more step toward electromobility. The buses, made by Yutong, the largest public transportation company in China, began circulating along Eje Central, one of the city’s main arteries of the city, as of Jan. 8. The new trolleybuses are part of Mexico
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XINHUA At least two people were killed and six others were injured on Friday, Jan. 10, during a shooting at a school in Torreón, a city in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, the mayor of Torreón, Jorge Zermeno Infante, said. Zermeno Infante said in an interview with Mexican TV network Televisa that the event occurred Friday morning at
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XINHUA Mexico’s light vehicle sales fell to a five-year low in 2019, after tumbling 7.7 percent compared to the previous year, the country’s National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi) said Tuesday, Jan. 7. In 2019, the industry sold a total of 1,317,727 units compared to 1,426,926 units in 2018. According to the Inegi, these figures are the worst for
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XINHUA The government will invest 20 billion Mexican pesos — about $1 billion — in bringing banking and internet access to impoverished areas of the country, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Jan. 6. Speaking at his traditional morning press conference, AMLO said that the Bank of Wellbeing project will require an investment of 10 billion pesos
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