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US downgrades Mexican aviation safety ranking

Despite last-minute pleas for restraint from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Mexico’s air safety ranking to Category 2 from Category 1, following a five-month reassessment of this nation’s civil aviation authority, the Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil (AFAC).


AMLO hopeful Veep chat may reopen border

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that “it is very likely” he will address the reopening of the Mexico/U.S. border during a virtual meeting scheduled Friday, May 7, with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mexicans and people worldwide on the move for Covid shots

In what may be a reversal of fortune for at least some sectors of the Covid-crippled travel industry, vaccine tourism is burgeoning, taking different forms depending on whether a locale has vaccines to offer, the severity of the economic hits it has taken and the demand for vaccines.