Former US ambassador takes key NSC position
U.S. President Joe Biden has named Roberta Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018, as his coordinator for the southwestern border on the National Security Council.
				
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		U.S. President Joe Biden has named Roberta Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018, as his coordinator for the southwestern border on the National Security Council.
In his second call to an international leader (Canada’s Justin Trudeau was the first), U.S. President Joe Biden discussed cooperation on a range of bilateral and regional issues with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Although commentators across Mexico’s political spectrum offered their sincere desires that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recover fully from his bout of Covid-19, the irony of his diagnosis has not been lost on the nation.
Mexico is betting heavily on the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to inoculate the majority of its elderly population against Covid-19 by the end of April, despite concerns about its efficacy and safety.
A see-saw installation straddling a section of the border wall near Ciudad Juarez has won the London Design Museum’s award for best design of 2020.
Mexico’s Statistics Institute (Inegi) this week released preliminary findings from the 2020 census. Here is some of the most notable data.
As Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday morning, Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, formally exited his post.
Mexico surpassed India to claim the world’s third highest Covid-19 death total on Thursday, with its tally rising by another 1,506 fatalities to 155,145.
Tourism resorts around Mexico are rushing to boost their Covid-19 testing capacity before January 26, when all travelers above two years of age seeking to enter the United States by air will need to present proof of a negative test (either PCR or antigen), carried out within three days before their flight.