Tag: Mexico

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Violence on the rise on Mexico's Caribbean beaches

  

  Two Canadian tourists and one Argentine hotel manager have been found murdered in less than a week, in Mexico's Riviera Maya area. These events have once again put the spotlight on violence in this region full of beach resorts.

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• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Mexican college teacher fired for anti semitic “joke”

  

  A Mexican teacher has been sacked after an antisemitic remark during a virtual class which resulted in most embarrassing for her students: “What's the difference between a pizza and a Jew?”, she asked.

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• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Mexico to enact zero tolerance on homophobic chanting at football games

  

  Mexican football authorities have announced they wil expel any fan from a stadium who uses foul language against players. But most of all, these fans will be suspended for five years from attending soccer events if they use homophobic remarks such as “puto” as an insult, it was announced Tuesday.

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• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Cuban COVID-19 vaccine cleared for use in Mexico

  

  Mexico's Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) has issued the green light Wednesday for the emergency use of the Cuban-developed Abdala vaccine against COVID-19.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Mexico tightens travel requirements on South American visitors

  

  Mexican migration authorities have decided over the past few days to reinstate a visa requirement for travelers from Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil after it was detected large numbers of those alleged tourists were seeking to go on by land and try to cross into the United States.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:14 UTC

  Norwegian cruise arrives at New Orleans with ten Covid-19 confirmed cases after a tour of Belize, Honduras and Mexico

  

  The Norwegian Breakaway, belonging to the Norwegian Cruise Line, docked in New Orleans, on Saturday with at least ten positive cases of Covid-19, according to the Louisiana Health Department.

• Thursday, November 25th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  Russian company finds oil off the coast of Tabasco in Mexico

  

  Russia's Lukoil oil company Wednesday announced the finding of an oil reserve off the coast of Tabasco in Mexico believed to be worth 250 million barrels of crude. ”The reservoir was discovered when drilling the Yoti West-1EXP well from the semi-submersible platform Valaris 8505,” according to a company statement.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Wishful declarations after three-leader Summit in Washington

  

  Leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico have achieved little to no progress after their first three-part Summit in Washington this week. Nevertheless, there were some coincidences regarding arms trafficking, migration and the recovery from the pandemic.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  Israeli-developed oral COVID-19 vaccine strikes deal with Mexican lab

  

  Pharmaceutical companies from Israel and Mexico have announced an oral vaccine against COVID-19 is to be marketed across Latin America shortly.

• Thursday, October 21st 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Former FARC leader not arrested in Mexico, just deported

  

  Former Colombian guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda, who was denied entry into Mexico Tuesday, was deported back to his native country. He explained he had never been under arrest.