Mexico News 2 Days Ago, Friday, January 15, 2021

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021

Ex-defense minister cleared of drug charges; AMLO claims the US fabricated evidence The Attorney General's Office has exonerated Salvador Cienfuegos of trafficking and money laundering accusations. FULL STORY

Thursday’s Covid tally: a record 16,468 new cases, 40% of which are in Mexico City The number of coronavirus cases rose to just under 1.59 million on Thursday while the official death toll reached 137,916 with 999 additional deaths. FULL STORY RELATED: Mexico City restaurants to reopen Monday with restrictions. FULL STORY

Of 324 Covid-free ‘municipalities of hope’, just 80 remain untouched Mexico's list of places that have never seen the coronavirus has dwindled over eight months. FULL STORY Fuel theft has supposedly declined, but the violence in Guanajuato has not An apparent paradox has emerged in the state: petroleum pipeline theft has gone down, but not the high levels of violent crime. FULL STORY Ambassador says Mexico rejected offers of help to control arms trafficking The federal government declined to accept equipment to assist in limiting illegal weapons trafficking, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said. FULL STORY Pemex workers file charges against union officials A group of current and former workers in Campeche have registered a corruption complaint against their local union leader and a former secretary-general. FULL STORY Costly Pemex: former cash cow ate up US $15 billion  Propping up the state oil company is siphoning at least 1.4 points of GDP a year from Mexico's cash-strapped government, Jude Webber writes. FULL STORY Facebookóatl? AMLO moves to create social media network for Mexicans A week after Donald Trump was kicked off Facebook and Twitter, the president floated the idea of creating a national social media network. FULL STORY ‘Searching Mothers’ turn up 19 secret graves in Sonora  The remains of at least 10 people were found in one of the burial sites, located in Ortiz, Guaymas. FULL STORY Elections authority wants to stipulate what AMLO cannot say during campaign The National Electoral Institute is considering putting strict limits on what the president is allowed to say in the lead-up to the elections in June. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE  From mammoth bones to ziplines, this trail has something for everyone A river that in the 1800s used to host steamboats, El Río de la Pasión forms part of the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacán, John Pint writes. FULL STORY OPINION With the housebound blues, you take the cure wherever you can get it Cockroach races? Mice safaris? When the virus has kept you locked down in your home for months, boredom starts forcing you to get creative, Bodie Kellogg writes. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT

• Elections agency asks if reporters paid to ask questions of AMLO • National Guard assumes policing duties after candidate’s murder • Superbowl avocado exports expected to be up 4% despite coronavirus