Tag: Mexico

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 07:21 UTC

  Massive spill of raw sewage at Mexico's sun-kissed beach of Acapulco

  

  The coastline of famed Mexican beach resort Acapulco was sullied late last week by a large discharge of raw sewage, the ugly scene captured in a viral video, which has prompted local authorities to promise an investigation and to fix its broken drainage system.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Mexico's economy contracted a record 17,3% in April from March and 19,9% year on year

  

  Mexico’s economy posted a record contraction in April, official data showed on Friday, as the effects of the coronavirus lockdown devastated economic activity, particularly in manufacturing.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  Newborn triplets in Mexico infected with coronavirus, but parents did not test positive for the virus

  

  Mexican health authorities are trying to understand how a set of newborn triplets became infected with the novel coronavirus even though neither one of their parents tested positive for the virus. Health authorities called the case “unheard of.”

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Mexico City's chief of police shot and injured and two bodyguards killed in an ambush attack

  

  Mexico City's chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards killed in a dramatic assassination attempt early on Friday that he quickly blamed on one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 11:55 UTC

  Mexico freezes bank accounts of companies blacklisted by US for evading sanctions against Venezuela

  

  The Mexican government’s financial crime department has frozen the bank accounts of companies and people blacklisted by the United States under accusations of having evaded the sanction regime imposed on Venezuela, its chief said on Friday.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:09 UTC

  North and South America have four of the 10 worst Covid-19 hit countries

  

  The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Mexican workers return to work at the automotive factories

  

  Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first day that industries joined the country's list of essential activities beginning to reopen.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Mexican auto industry picks up with approved safety measures

  

  Mexico's auto industry reopening picked up the pace on Tuesday, with Fiat, Chrysler, and BMW AG joining peers in gradually dusting off operations even as the wait for approvals slowed the return of Ford Motor Co and other companies.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 20:59 UTC

  Mexico anticipates the loss of a million jobs because of the Covid-19 pandemic

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that the novel coronavirus could cost as many as a million jobs in the country as many industries considered not essential remain shut.

• Friday, May 15th 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  Latin America's two main economies with daily record virus cases, but also desperate to reopen activity

  

  Brazil and Mexico on Thursday reported a record one-day rise in new coronavirus cases, just as leaders of both countries intensified attempts to reopen their economies even as the spread of the virus in Latin America is seemingly gathering pace.