The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
While job losses in Mexico decreased significantly in June, the overall balance during the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the economy, the latest statistics indicate.
Unlike the United States, where the president appears to be undermining the lead member of his coronavirus task force, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has fully backed his chief strategist, the unflappable Hugo Lopez-Gatell, the federal sub-secretary of health who is an experienced epidemiologist to boot.
Passenger traffic at the Guadalajara International Airport rebounded by 155 percent in June, with 316,700 travelers registered during the month, compared with 124,300 in May, according to data released by the Pacific Airport Group (GAP), operators of the airport and 11 others in western Mexico, including Puerto Vallarta and Tijuana.
In its first projections of Covid-19 deaths out to November 1, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting more than 200,000 deaths in the United States.
The Trump re-election campaign didn’t waste time making use of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s mystifying declaration that his U.S. counterpart has acted “kindly” toward his compatriots: “Actually Joe [Biden], while you’ve spent decades making empty promises to Hispanics, President Trump has actually delivered for our community.
Do you know anyone who has been infected with coronavirus, or even someone who has died? Chances are you don’t.
The 2020 head count of Mexico’s population is underway again after the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) survey was suspended in mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping the country.
National Action Party (PAN) state legislator Irma de Anda has proposed changes to the penal code that would sanction people who willfully or negligently infect others with coronavirus with a prison term of up to three years.
The fact that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will make his first trip outside the country since taking office 18 months ago to meet with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday, July 8, underscores the importance he gives to the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which came into force on July 1.
