The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
One might forgive U.S. foreign service personnel for being more than a bit miffed with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who this week announced plans to host a yuletide coronavirus “superspreader” party for almost 1,000 people in Washington D.C.
Mexico will receive 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine sometime before the end of the month, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, announced on December 2.
The Mexican Senate Thursday approved by a margin of 82 to 18, with seven abstentions, a bill that would create a legal market for cannabis in Mexico, while relaxing laws governing the recreational use of the substance to permit users to carry 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to four plants in their homes.
Guadalajara’s five Best Buy stores are set to close after Best Buy Co. Inc. announced that it will be shutting all of its outlets in Mexico at the end of December.
Inflation between October 2019 and October 2020 is running at 4.09 percent, according to Mexico’s National Statistics Institute (Inegi).
This week Bloomberg released a “Covid Resilience Ranking” of the world’s 53 largest economies, evaluating their success at containing the coronavirus with the least amount of social and economic disruption.
Various polls published this week indicate that around 90 percent of Mexicans believe President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador should congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. presidential election.
U.S. and Mexican authorities announced on Thursday that the two nations’ land borders will remain closed to non-essential travel at least until December 21 due to the ongoing coronavirus emergency.
As many as 20,000 Mexican citizens have volunteered to take part in clinical trials for the CanSino Biologics Inc. Covid-19 vaccine, which has been developed jointly by Canada and China.
