XINHUA As of Monday, Sept. 27, Israel will lift its covid-19 travel ban for Mexico, the Israeli Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday, Sept. 20. Notwithstanding, the existing ban on Israelis flying to Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey will remain intact, the ministry said. Israeli citizens and permanent residents who want to travel to the three countries must
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XINHUA At least 16 people were killed on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, when a passenger bus and two trailer trucks collided on the Sonoyta-San Luis Rio Colorado highway in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the state’s Attorney General’s Office said. Another 22 people were injured, six seriously, the office said on Twitter. The National Guard reported that the
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XINHUA The Mexican government is participating in a humanitarian program to relocate Afghan refugees, said Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Wednesday, Aug. 25. “In keeping with Mexico’s tradition in favor of refuge,” the Latin American country “has decided to support requests of a humanitarian nature — refuge, asylum, humanitarian visa — for people in Afghanistan,” said Ebrard. Earlier
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XINHUA At least eight people are dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac García, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday, Aug. 21, Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour, leading to severe flooding in more
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XINHUA The Mexican government has filed a petition with the United States to open a period of consultation to resolve differences over automotive rules of origin that were established under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Economy Secretariat reported Sunday, Aug.22. The petition, which was formally filed on Aug. 20, gives both governments a period of 75 days to resolve the
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XINHUA Some 97 percent of the patients hospitalized in Mexico for covid-19 infections during the current third wave of the pandemic are unvaccinated, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday, Aug. 3. “The vaccine has a very, very important protective effect in reducing the most serious forms of the disease … where people need to be hospitalized,” the official
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XINHUA Mexico’s economy rebounded 19.7 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2021, buoyed by good performance across all sectors, according to preliminary figures released Friday, July 30, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). Seasonally adjusted figures showed Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.5 percent in the second quarter compared to the previous, Inegi said in
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, July 14, called for “a new coexistence” of all the countries of the Americas to replace the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS). Speaking before a summit of the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) at Chapultepec Castle, the president went on to state the OAS model
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XINHUA Tropical storm Enrique intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday, June 26, off the coast of the western Mexican states of Colima and Michoacán, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported. “At 07:15 a.m., the center of Enrique was located approximately 230 kilometers southwest of Punta San Telmo, Michoacan, and 265 kilometers south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima,” Conagua said,
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XINHUA At least 14 people died in armed attacks in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on Saturday, June 19, local authorities said in a statement. The attacks took place in early Saturday afternoon in different districts of the city, said Tamaulipas authorities, adding that it remains unclear if the victims were targeted or randomly shot. On Sunday, June
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