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President Andres Manuel López Obrador celebrated a high point in his six-year term this week as he opened Mexico City’s second airport, Felipe Ángeles International, accompanied by hundreds of his supporters and scores of dignitaries.

On Monday, March 21, as the nation takes the day off to mark the birthday of Benito Juarez, universally considered Mexico’s most influential president, current incumbent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and a slew of dignitaries will head over to Mexico City’s new $US4 billion airport, Felipe Ángeles International (AIFA), for its official inauguration.

“It took us four years and four months, but we finally did it,” tweeted Samuel García, the Movimiento Cuidadano governor of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, celebrating the arrest of his predecessor,  Jaime Helidoro Rodríguez, “El Bronco,” on Tuesday, March 15.

Even though Covid cases in the United States, Canada and Mexico are declining, disease experts on this side of the Atlantic are watching current trends in Europe with particular interest.

For the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic in February 2020, all 32 of Mexico’s states are in the green (low risk) category in the federal government’s epidemiological traffic-light monitoring system. 

Monday, March 21, is a national holiday as Mexico marks the birth of Benito Juarez, one of the nation’s most respected presidents.

A bill being considered by Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies would severely restrict the work of civil society groups in Mexico and violate Mexico’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (AI)said today.

Ukrainians living in Mexico are making their voices heard about the unfolding turmoil in their homeland.