AMLO’s party seeks to replace Mexico’s regulatory agencies
• PROPOSAL: Mexico's governing party (MORENA) unveiled a bill to replace three of Mexico's economic regulatory agencies -antitrust agency COFECE,...
• PROPOSAL: Mexico's governing party (MORENA) unveiled a bill to replace three of Mexico's economic regulatory agencies -antitrust agency COFECE,...
• METRO: The coronavirus epidemic curve in the Mexico City metro area has reached a plateau where the number of...
• HISTORIC: Amid the coronavirus shock, Mexico witnessed an unprecedented 72.4% decline in foreign tourism in April when compared to...
What was the rationale for the president of Mexico to travel to southern Mexico last week to give the starting...
• LOCKDOWNS: The shutdown of restaurants and hotels across the US due to the coronavirus emergency caused a decline of...
• MOMENT: Mexico is facing the most dangerous moment of the coronavirus pandemic with many Mexican states on their way...
• PREDICTION: Most automakers in North America could likely be petitioning for alternative staging regimes by July 1st to meet...
• INQUIRY: Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has filed money laundering complaints against four associates and family members of Cuauhtémoc...
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• EPIDEMIC: Mexican health authorities reported today that the country's coronavirus death toll has surpassed the 14,000 mark. Moreover, Mexican...
• ARRESTS: Authorities in the western state of Jalisco said Monday that six people remain in custody after Saturday's clashes...
• DROP: Mexican air carrier Aeromexico reported Monday a 92.4% drop in total passenger traffic in May compared to the...
While we have all been appropriately covering our faces to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the pandemic, accompanied by...
• POSITIVE: The head of Mexico's Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoe Robledo, has tested positive for coronavirus becoming the fourth...
• AT RISK: Conservation of Mexico's 182 protected areas is at risk given the López Obrador Administration's decree cutting 75%...
The past two weeks in the United States have been full of trauma, pain, and shame, revealing again deep-seated racism...
• EXPORTS: Amid coronavirus shutdowns around the world, Mexican car exports posted a historic plunge of 95.1% in May from...
• MAYHEM: Protests over the death of 30-year-old bricklayer Giovanni López while in police custody turned violent Thursday night in...
• CASES: Mexico reported Thursday its highest daily jump in reported coronavirus cases (4,442) since the beginning of the pandemic....
• DROP: As the coronavirus pandemic settled in, Mexico saw in April a drop of 47.9% in the value of...
• FARMWORKERS: Despite agricultural production being considered an essential industry amid the coronavirus pandemic, most of 2.4 million farmworkers in...
Uncertainty and division reigns in the United States and Mexico. Whether it is the way Covid-19 has been handled in...
• CLIMBING: Homicides are mounting in the Mexican Pacific coast state of Colima (pop. 711,000) with local authorities making gruesome...
• DEADLY: Mexico reported Wednesday night the largest one-day increase in its coronavirus death toll adding 1,092 fatalities. Due to...
Cities and countries are just waking up from sort of an induced coma to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. For those...
• LIFETIME: One-third of Mexico's state-owned power capacity depends on obsolete plants that have exceeded their operational life undercutting the...
• STORM: Tropical storm Cristobal made landfall Wednesday morning along the Gulf Coastal region of Campeche bringing torrential rains to...
• FROZEN: Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) froze 1,939 bank accounts in 12 Mexican states linked to the Jalisco New...
• GOVERNMENT: Mexican health authorities warned Tuesday that Mexico is undergoing the most intense phase of the coronavirus outbreak and...
• OFFICERS: The bodies of seven state police officers were found dead Tuesday inside a minivan in the Pacific coast...
• INDUSTRY: Most car manufacturers in Mexico -including Detroit's Big 3- have slowly resumed operations after more than two months...
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• LIVELIHOOD: More than 12.5 million Mexicans lost their employment in April as the coronavirus crisis settled in, a survey...
• THRESHOLD: Mexico officially crossed the threshold of 10,000 coronavirus deaths according to the latest figures presented by Mexican health...
• UNCHANGED: Despite mounting unemployment in the US stemming from the coronavirus crisis, migrant remittances to Mexico in April had...
• YOUTH: Mexicans younger than 30 years of age are expected to be hardest hit by the coronavirus economic aftershock....
TREND: In the past four years, demand for humanitarian protection in Mexico has increased significantly as families and children represented...
• PANDEMIC: Nearly half of Mexicans (48%) do not approve how President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has handled the...
• INJUNCTION: Two Mexican environmental groups won a preliminary injunction that temporarily suspends measures in the electricity sector by the...
• CONTRACT: In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the Mexico City government awarded a face masks contract, equivalent to...
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• SIGNS: Despite still being at peak, Mexico City has begun to see early signs that its local coronavirus epidemic...
• RATES: Mexico's Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) agreed Thursday to increase transmission rates for those self-supply power contracts signed before...
• SEAWEED: Mexico's famed Caribbean beaches of Cancún are scheduled to reopen on June 8 after more than two months...
Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has an ambiguous relationship with the law. "If you have to choose between...
• MODEL: An artificial intelligence-driven model predicts coronavirus deaths in Mexico could reach 132,000 by September 1. Monitored by the...
• CONCERN: The Pacific port city of Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero has become Mexico's central concern as...
• FORECAST: Mexico's central bank (Banxico) estimates that the country's GDP will contract between 4.6% and 8.8% in 2020 depending...
• ISLAND: The tourist industry in Mexico's Caribbean island of Cozumel is scheduled to reopen on June 17 under enhanced...
• CONTROL: At least five Mexican state governors have objected to the federal government's control over the reopening of their...
• APPEAL: Mexico's electric grid operator (CENACE) said that the López Obrador administration will appeal a Mexican federal judge's decision...
• ESTIMATES: The 10-week lockdown period across Mexico has caused a loss of US $26.5 billion to the country's commercial and...
• LEADING: Mexico is now the country in Latin America with the highest case fatality rate (10.7%) even ahead of...
• POLL: Almost half of Mexico City residents (49%) knows someone who has contracted coronavirus, according to a new poll by...
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wants to convince Mexicans that his government is a "transformation" and that his political...
Mexico’s foreign policy has long been based on the principle of non-intervention, a “mind your own business” approach. That approach...
• GROWTH: The share of Mexicans who say having experienced corruption by a public official increased during the first year of...
• DECREASE: Bed occupancy at Mexico City's intensive care units (ICU) dropped to 60% on Friday given an increase in...
As Mexico prepares to reopen during the escalating coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, with at least 60,000 confirmed cases and over 6,500...
• CONCERN: Representatives of five European chambers of commerce in Mexico said Thursday they were bewildered by the recent Mexican...
• BUS RIDE: A 70-year-old woman died from coronavirus on April 6, just 11 days after completing a 2,200-mile bus...
• REOPENING: Mexico's largest car manufacturer, General Motors (GM), on Thursday was restarting operations at two of its four manufacturing...
• DEATHS: For the second day in a row, Mexican authorities recorded more than 400 coronavirus deaths across the country,...
• MAMMOTHS: Mexican archeologists have unearthed the remains of at least 60 Pleistocene mammoths during excavations for the new Santa...
The Mexican government has decided to allow two companies to incur in actions that will affect the health and wealth...
• SULFUR: The burning of fuel oil to generate electricity at the Tula power plant in Central Mexico is the...
I had just stepped down from the podium having directed some remarks to the attendees at the Mexican Banking Convention...
• FORECAST: Mexico City expects to begin of a phased-in reopening of daily life on June 15 once the coronavirus...
• DEFERMENT: At least 4.7 million individuals and firms in Mexico have enrolled in deferment plans with their banks in...
• EPIDEMIC: Two of Mexico's richest states -Jalisco and Nuevo León- have yet to experience the brunt of the coronavirus...
• CLAIM: Murders in Mexico remained high during the month of April, with the Mexican government reporting a total of...
• PLANTS: The controversial Mexican government directive ordering the suspension of performance tests for new renewables plants has hampered the...
• BEDS: Mexico City remains the key area of concern for Mexico's health authorities with critical care bed usage at...
• SPENDING: Tourism spending in Mexico could fall nearly 50% in 2020 due to the coronavirus shock putting at risk...
• DEATHS: At least 959 Mexican nationals have died from the coronavirus pandemic in the US, according to the latest...
It has always seemed to me a simplistic notion that everything that the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador does...
• TEMPORARY: A Mexican federal judge issued Monday preliminary injunctions in favor of two renewables companies stopping temporarily a controversial...
• EPIDEMIC: Despite plans for reopening in June, the Mexico City metro area remains a key area of concern given...
• WORST: Two thirds of Mexicans (67%) believe that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come, according...
• SUMMER: Delta will resume flying to Mexico's most popular resorts in June after suspending several routes due to the...
Having heard not one but two harangues last week by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) regarding The New...
TREND: Cozumel, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, is the third most popular cruise port in the world, behind Florida´s...
If President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had exerted the same determination to govern that he has applied on devising...
Covid-19 has encouraged discussions on a variety of topics including the relationship of criminal groups vis-à-vis civilian populations during a...
• THREAT: Reforma newspaper reported Thursday it had received a phone call from a man identifying himself as a member...
• DETAILS: Mexican auto plants and their suppliers are waiting for more details from government in order to prepare their phased-in...
• COUNT: Mexico recorded the largest one-day increase in its coronavirus death count adding 353 confirmed deaths on Tuesday. Due...
• CHANGES: A series of at least five regulatory changes in the Mexican electric sector since the López Obrador administration...
• CANCELLATION: Budget cuts stemming from the coronavirus emergency have forced the Cabañas Museum in the city of Guadalajara to...
The Mexican government recently justified buying ventilators at a premium because of the country's health emergency. The government's haste is...
• RECORD: Mexico recorded a loss of 555,247 jobs in April, its worst monthly employment drop in history, amid a...
• REOPENING: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will present Wednesday a phased plan to for reopening Mexico's economy after a...
• DECREE: Amid the coronavirus emergency, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered Mexico's military to remain in a lead role...
• REOPENING: The tourism industry in the seaside resort of Los Cabos in Mexico’s Baja peninsula is gearing up plans...
Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) doesn't miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. He is not the political...
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• MILLIONS: The number of Mexicans living in poverty could increase in at least 8.9 million due to the coronavirus...
• MUNICIPALITIES: A collection of 300 municipalities across Mexico is under consideration for the reopening of activities and the economy...
• UNCONSTITUTIONAL: In a rare unanimous decision, Mexico's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a law passed by the Baja California's state...
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