General News

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated four Mexican nationals operating through the port of Manzanillo as pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).

A new agreement between the United States and Mexico that effectively ends the $US3.3 billion Merida Initiative will herald a new era in “equitable” bilateral relations, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said.

Mexico’s influenza vaccination program will start on November 3, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell announced this week.

A 4.5-meter high totem carved from a single tree in Chumatlán, Veracruz has made the 9,000-kilometer trek to the United Kingdom in time for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) asking the agency to approve the Chinese Cansino and Russian Sputnik V anti-Covid vaccines, both of which are being applied in Mexico.

A replica of the figure of an indigenous woman from the Huasteca culture that was found earlier this year in a field in the state of Veracruz will replace the Christopher Columbus statue on Mexico City’s famous Avenida de la Reforma.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will deliver a speech at the United Nations in New York on November 9, as Mexico assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security Council.

Many people have complained of issues with the Mexican government website (cvcovid.salud.gob.mx) where one’s vaccine certification document can be obtained.