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Saturday, January 16, 2021

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  • Vaccination of healthcare workers continues across the country.

    Thursday’s Covid tally: a record 16,468 new cases, 40% of which are in Mexico City

    The number of cases rose to just under 1.59 million on Thursday while the official death toll reached 137,916 with 999 additional deaths.

    January 15
  • A paradox in Guanajuato: less fuel theft but more deaths.

    Fuel theft has supposedly declined, but the violence in Guanajuato has not

    An apparent paradox has emerged in Guanajuato: petroleum pipeline theft has declined but high levels of violence continue.

    January 15
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    Ambassador says Mexico rejected offers of help to control arms trafficking

    The federal government rejected an offer of equipment to help control illegal arms trafficking, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Thursday.

    January 15
  • Elections institute chief Lorenzo Córdova and the president

    Elections authority wants to stipulate what AMLO cannot say during campaign

    The National Electoral Institute is considering putting strict limits on what the president can say in the lead-up to the elections in June.

    January 15
  • The National Guard on duty in Juventino Rosas.

    National Guard assumes policing duties after candidate’s murder

    A day after the assassination of a Guanajuato politician, the National Guard and state police disarmed local police in Juventino Rosas.

    January 15
  • Retired army general Cienfuegos

    Ex-defense minister cleared of drug charges; AMLO claims US fabricated evidence

    The Attorney General’s Office has exonerated former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos of drug trafficking and money laundering charges.

    January 15
  • Super Bowl guacamole is good for Mexico's avocado growers.

    Superbowl avocado exports expected to be up 4% despite coronavirus

    The coronavirus pandemic won’t stop Mexico from sending a huge quantity of avocados to the US before the Super Bowl February 7.

    January 14
  • Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell and a map indicating the municipalities of hope.

    Of 324 Covid-free ‘municipalities of hope’ just 80 remain untouched by the virus

    Mexico’s list of coronavirus-free “municipalities of hope” has dwindled from 324 to 80 in the space of eight months.

    January 14
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    Pemex workers file corruption charges against union officials

    A group of current and former workers in Campeche have filed a complaint against their local union leader and a former secretary general.

    January 14
  • The Searching Mothers of Sonora at work.

    ‘Searching Mothers’ turn up 19 secret graves in Guaymas, Sonora

    The remains of at least 10 people were found in one of graves, which are located in Ortiz, Guaymas.

    January 14
  • Reporters raise their hands to question the president at his morning press conference.

    Elections agency asks if reporters paid to ask questions of AMLO

    The query arose after a question produced a lengthy and partisan response, triggering a complaint to the INE.

    January 14
  • Only outdoor seating will be allowed and staff must take Covid tests.

    Mexico City restaurants to reopen Monday with restrictions

    The city government and restaurant owners have come to a tentative compromise that will allow restaurants to reopen Monday.

    January 14
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    Costly Pemex: former cash cow burned through US $15 billion in 2020

    Propping up the state oil company is costing the cash-strapped government at least 1.4 points of GDP a year.

    January 14
  • Mexican alternatives to the big social media networks.

    Facebookóatl? AMLO moves to create social media network for Mexicans

    A week after Donald Trump was kicked off Facebook and Twitter, the president floated the idea of creating a national social media network.

    January 14
  • Guerrero and one of her teddy bears.

    Artisan’s teddy bears a comfort for those who have lost loved ones to Covid

    The bears give them something to hold onto after their loved ones pass away: they are made from the Covid victims’ clothing.

    January 13
  • The Mazatec huipil, left, and the Australian design house's product, right.

    Australian designer accused of copying traditional Oaxacan huipil

    Zimmermann has withdrawn a dress from its 2021 collection after accusations that it plagiarized the design of a huipil.

    January 13
  • At left, how the road is supposed to look; at right, the damaged road in San Pedro Yolox.

    AMLO’s flagship roadbuilding program hits a snag in Oaxaca

    A recently built road that was part of a highly promoted federal program to connect remote towns may have to be relocated.

    January 13
  • Photo that appeared on hunting ranch's website until yesterday.

    Authorities investigate buffalo hunters in Coahuila

    Environmental authorities have launched an investigation after a photograph appeared showing two men next to a buffalo they had killed.

    January 13
  • His worship is punished for an allegedly substandard water tank.

    Mayor apprehended, tied to a tree for shoddy public works project

    Eschewing bureaucratic legal processes to hold him accountable, residents of a Chiapas municipality took direct measures against their mayor.

    January 13
  • López Obrador and elections chief Córdova.

    AMLO, elections authority face off over broadcast of press conference before elections

    A battle is brewing over a possible ban on the transmission of the president’s daily press conferences during the lead-up to June elections.

    January 13
  • The murder scene in Juventino Rosas on Tuesday.

    State legislator and mayoral hopeful murdered in Guanajuato

    A Guanajuato state legislator who was hoping to run for mayor of Juventino Rosas was shot in the back and killed Tuesday morning.

    January 13
  • There were 9,459 patients in hospitals in the Mexico City metropolitan area Tuesday night.

    Valley of México within 53 hospital beds of predicted worst-case scenario

    The number of Covid patients in hospitals in the Valley of México metro area is 53 short of the maximum predicted by in December.

    January 13
  • Local police at the scene of a party in Puerto Escondido.

    Oaxaca beach town parties stoke fears of virus spread

    The state of Oaxaca is at the high risk level on the coronavirus stoplight map but that is not stopping beach parties in Puerto Escondido.

    January 12
  • The baseball stadium in Palenque that is slated for an upgrade.

    Baseball stadium where AMLO’s brother’s team plays gets federal funds

    The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Urban Planning awarded an 89-million-peso contract for the upgrade of a stadium in Chiapas.

    January 12
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    After 3-year delay, medical marijuana will be legal as of Wednesday

    More than three years after Congress approved the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, it will finally become legal.

    January 12
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