General News

Tickets for the symbolic “Presidential Plane Lottery” – for which the prize is actually monetary and not the unwanted luxury Dreamliner – are flying off the shelves, according to some vendors.

Daylight saving time (DST) begins in the United States and Canada on Sunday, March 8, but won’t take effect in most of Mexico for another four weeks.

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has sent a proposal to the State Congress that would outlaw the physical punishment of children, mandating prison terms of up to five years for violators. 

Around 200,000 tickets for the lottery of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s presidential plane will go on sale in Jalisco as of March 2. Each “cachito” – as the tickets are referred to – will have a cost of 500 pesos.

As yet, Mexico sees no need to cancel international flights, restrict entry at its borders and ports, cancel sporting events, or advise its citizens not to travel abroad due to Covid-19, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, the deputy federal health minister, said Wednesday.

The majority of the country’s practicing Catholics initiated Lent by attending church on Ash Wednesday (Miercoles de Cenizas) when a priest – or in some cases a nun – stamped the sign of the cross on their foreheads in ash while reciting a familiar spiritual admonition such as “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or “You are dust and to dust you shall return.”

Mexico’s 2020 Census kicked off March 2, with a small army of 151,000 census takers fanning out to every corner of the nation to capture data that, once tabulated, will form the blueprint for the  equitable distribution of billions of pesos in public funding over the next decade.

Mexico does not fall into the category of nations that a World Health Organization expert recently warned are “simply not ready’ to contain a coronavirus pandemic, a federal official said.