The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Thursday that Mexico and Argentina have agreed to produce between 150 and 250 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astra-Zeneca and the University of Oxford.
Ever since taking office, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stressed that he is disinclined to target former Mexican presidents tainted by accusations of wrongdoing, even though he has made the eradication of political corruption of one of his chief goals.
Airline passenger traffic to Mexico from the United States and Canada last month was down 90.7 and 98 percent respectively compared with 2019.
Despite the fierce opposition of retailers, state legislators in Oaxaca have voted to ban the sale of “comida chatarra” (junk food) to minors, the first state in Mexico to take such drastic action in a bid to reduce childhood obesity.
Mexico’s Education Secretary Esteban Moctezuma is expected to hold a press conference on Monday, July 3, that will lay out federal plans for a safe return to face-to-face classes.
Mexico’s sizable – and wealthy – Lebanese community will step up to assist the victims of this week’s explosion in Beirut that killed 137 people and injured at least 5,000, members of the country’s Lebanese community confirm.
Mexico registered another 639 Covid-19 deaths Thursday, July 30, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to exactly 46,000.
Ten state governors have demanded the immediate dismissal of Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s deputy health minister and the federal government’s chief architect of the coronavirus pandemic strategy.
With the coronavirus emergency looking set to continue well into the fall, organizers of upcoming cultural events are making early alternative decisions.
