Tag: Mexico

• Monday, November 28th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  With no reelection possible, Mexican president begins preparing his party to continue ruling

  

  The debate on amendments to the electoral legislation and electoral authority in Mexico, sponsored by president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador and strongly criticized by the opposition has led to an unprecedented dispute on the streets of Mexico City.

• Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 10:51 UTC

  Colombia: Mexico agrees to join as guarantor of peace talks with ELN

  

  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Friday told his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro that Mexico had accepted the invitation to join as guarantor of the peace talks between the South American country's administration and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.

• Thursday, November 24th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Mexico, Chile agree to boost bilateral cooperation

  

  Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile Wednesday agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in education, economic and environmental matters.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Mexico: Tourist climbs Chichen Itza Castle without permission and locals call for sacrifice

  

  An angry mob almost lynched a tourist who climbed without permission the steps of the Castillo de Kukulcán, one of the new seven wonders of the modern world located in the archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá, in southeastern Mexico.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 19:28 UTC

  Mexico launches bid to host 2036 Olympic Games

  

  Mexico has submitted a bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games. If that option is not possible then the Latin American country is also open to being awarded the 2040 competition.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Moody's: Major devaluation of Mexican peso forecast

  

  According to the credit rating agency Moody's, a devaluation of around 20% of the Mexican peso against the US dollar would be imminent and might take place later this year or in early 2023, it was reported.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 20:47 UTC

  Costa Rica on brink of joining Pacific Alliance

  

  Costa Rica may soon be joining the Pacific Alliance after the organization's Council of Ministers Thursday approved the Central American country's request to begin negotiations to join the regional bloc, it was reported.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Tropical storm Karl leaves one dead in Mexico

  

  One person has died and some 2,000 others have been evicted from their homes in the Mexican state of Chiapas as a consequence of tropical storm Karl, it was reported Sunday.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:47 UTC

  President of the Mexican Hunting Federation dies in Argentina after being rammed by a buffalo

  

  The president of the Mexican Hunting Federation, Mario Alberto Canales, died in Argentina when he was rammed by a buffalo he was trying to hunt in the province of Entre Ríos, in the northeast of the country, police sources reported Wednesday.

• Friday, October 7th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentina, Brazil, Mexico not siding with OAS on Russia statement

  

  The delegations of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico were among those who refused to sign a statement from the Organization of American States (OAS) condemning Russia's military deployment in Ukraine as the continental group's 52nd General Assembly kicked off in Lima.