Tag: Mexico

• 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.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  AMLO's emergency hospitalization in January leaked to the press

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was hospitalized in January due to a serious health crisis that had been kept secret but became public Friday after confidential documents were accessed by hackers who leaked them to the press.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Mexico/US border migrants' record arrests; mostly from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua

  

  New figures from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), indicate that 2.15 million migrants were detained at the US/Mexico border over the past year, a 24% increase, but with a drastic change in the origin of the new migrants, since the fastest growing number are from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.