General News

U.S. and Mexican authorities announced on Thursday that the two nations’ land borders will remain closed to non-essential travel at least until December 21 due to the ongoing coronavirus emergency.

As many as 20,000 Mexican citizens have volunteered to take part in clinical trials for the CanSino Biologics Inc. Covid-19 vaccine, which has been developed jointly by Canada and China.

The Mexican Senate Thursday approved by a margin of 82 to 18, with seven abstentions, a bill that would create a legal market for cannabis in Mexico, while relaxing laws governing the recreational use of the substance to permit users to carry 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to four plants in their homes.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who refuses to wear face masks in public, insisted Tuesday that it is still not known “for sure” that they are effective, and that he doesn’t use them because he isn’t infected with Covid-19.

Inflation between October 2019 and October 2020 is running at 4.09 percent, according to Mexico’s National Statistics Institute (Inegi).

After four U.S. states this week approved ballot measures legalizing recreational cannabis for adults, eyes will now turn to Mexican lawmakers facing a December 15 deadline over legislation to allow the commercialization and use of the substance in this country.

Various polls published this week indicate that around 90 percent of Mexicans believe President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador should congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. presidential election.

Should the Democratic candidate prevail in the tightly contested U.S. election, as many pundits predict, relations between Mexico and a Joe Biden administration could be “problematic,” noted Pamela Starr, a professor at the University of Southerm California, during a recent seminar organized by the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.