Tag: Mexico

• Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Despite the Catholic Church but fearful of Covid-19, Mexicans venerate death saint, “Santa Muerte”

  

  Their arms raised towards the sky, worshippers of Mexico's “saint” of death pray before a giant cloaked skeleton asking for protection from the coronavirus and its devastating economic fallout. The Grim Reaper-like figure, whose devotees include drug cartel members as well as ordinary Mexicans, has been rejected by the Roman Catholic Church as blasphemous.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Pioneer ozone Mexican scientist and Nobel Prize dies

  

  Mario Molina, the winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, died last week in his native Mexico City. He was 77 years old.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Mexico claiming Aztec emperor Moctezuma's feather headdress from Austria

  

  Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife the “almost impossible mission” of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Mexico asking the Vatican for codices from Aztec times for the 500th anniversary of Spanish conquest

  

  The Mexican government has formally asked Pope Francis for the temporary return of several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in the Vatican library ahead of next year's 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Controversy in Mexico over under reporting Covid-19 infections and deaths

  

  Mexico on Monday reported a sharp increase in the daily number of coronavirus infections and deaths, breaking previous records due to what the government said was a change in methodology.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Mexican court unfreezes bank account of company blacklisted by US for trading with Venezuela

  

  Mexican court has unfrozen the bank accounts of a local company blacklisted by the United States for trading in oil with Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA despite US sanctions, Mexico's anti-money laundering unit said.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Mexico confirms 700,000 coronavirus cases, but admits true figures are higher

  

  Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus caseload rose past 700,000 on Monday, according to updated data from the health ministry officials, along with a reported death toll of 73,697.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  US curbs steel imports from Brazil and Mexico, boosting protection for US steelmakers

  

  President Donald Trump’s administration took new steps to curb steel imports from Brazil and Mexico, boosting protections for battered U.S. steelmakers and jobs in the election battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Mexican leader proposes referendum whether to prosecute his predecessors accused of corruption

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that he was ready to request a referendum on whether to prosecute several of his predecessors accused of corruption. Lopez Obrador said that if campaigners fail to gather enough signatures in support of a “people's consultation,” he would ask the Senate for such a vote himself.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Latin America passed 300,000 confirmed deaths of coronavirus and 8 million contagion cases

  

  The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in Latin America passed 300,000 on Wednesday, according to several independent tallies, with the virus showing no signs of abating in the world's worst-hit region.