Mexico News Today June 29, 2020

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020

The fight for Guanajuato: getting drugs to the US market at the heart of gangsters' dispute Getting drugs to the northern border entails going through Guanajuato, a state that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel would like to control but doesn't – at least for now. In its way: the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. FULL STORY Rate of coronavirus contagion and deaths is slowing: deputy health minister The pandemic continues to grow but the speed at which new infections and deaths are occurring is slowing, the deputy health minister said. FULL STORY RELATED: 18 states painted orange on virus risk map. FULL STORY Share this email and introduce friends to Mexico News Daily Forward

Economically speaking, the worst is over, president says President López Obrador declared Monday that the worst of the country’s economic hardships are behind it and that the hemorrhaging of jobs largely due to Covid-19 shutdowns would begin to stabilize in July. FULL STORY Earthquake aid is slow to arrive in remote mountain areas of Oaxaca The damage caused by Tuesday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Oaxaca continues to cut off several communities in the Ozolotepec indigenous region, where roads are blocked by debris and communication hampered by limited phone and internet. FULL STORY Third nationwide protest held against López Obrador Bearing signs and waving Mexican flags, about 300 protesters in cars and on motorcycles took over Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma Sunday to demand that President López Obrador resign. It was one of many such protests around the country. FULL STORY Experts see virus worsening, urge change in strategy With record levels of infection and between 4,000 and 6,000 new cases of the coronavirus being reported each day, some experts warn that if Mexico doesn’t change its strategy, infection rates will continue to spike. FULL STORY ‘Prepare for the worst,’ Nayarit governor warns as Covid-19 spreads The governor blames Irresponsible citizens for rising infections. FULL STORY Navy reports removal of 5,000 tonnes of sargassum in Quintana Roo Saharan dust clouds, the consequences for tourism of the coronavirus and the advent of hurricane season have given residents and businesses in Quintana Roo plenty to worry about. And now the sargassum is coming back. FULL STORY Gang boss’s mom released for lack of evidence; all 31 arrested freed The mother of Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel leader José Antonio “El Marro” Yépez was released from prison on Sunday due to a lack of evidence, triggering criticism from President López Obrador. FULL STORY New North American trade pact launches under a cloud A new trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada begins on Wednesday with the top U.S. negotiator threatening litigation, investor distrust rife and supply chains tested by the Covid-19 pandemic. FULL STORY Officials learned 2 weeks ago cartel was planning an attack Government officials, including President López Obrador, had known for two weeks that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was planning an attack against a top-level official. FULL STORY Why one of smallest states is also the most violent A series of assassinations of high-profile public figures in Colima marks the latest manifestation of violence in one of Mexico’s smallest yet deadliest states. FULL STORY NL governor hopes Trump will broaden AMLO’s vision Nuevo León Governor Jaime “El Bronco” Rodríguez hopes some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Covid-related economic strategies will rub off on Mexican President López Obrador next month. FULL STORY THE MND POLL THE STORY: New North American trade pact launches under a cloud FULL STORY THE QUESTION: Will the new trade pact provide early relief from the economic woes brought on by Covid-19?  VOTE HERE LAST POLL: How attractive is Mexico as a destination for foreign investment? 36% said not very. VIEW FULL RESULTS

MEXICO LIFE Musician’s efforts introduce rural children to the performing arts Not content with a successful international career, a musician works to provide artistic opportunities to Mexican children. PRISMA, writes Leigh Thelmadatter, sends performers into schools and communities. FULL STORY Honey can be fun to work with in sauces and dressings—but buyer beware Make sure you are buying pure, raw, unadulterated, uncooked and unfiltered honey that contains the healthy components you’re buying it for to begin with, writes Janet Blaser in The Tropical Table. FULL STORY Newsletter options Some readers prefer to stay up to date with the three-times-weekly summary of Mexico news provided by Mexico News Today. For others, however, it's too infrequent. The alternative is The Whole Enchilada: it gives readers links to the same stories as Mexico News Today but they arrive in your inbox daily rather than three times a week. If a daily news fix is what you want, check out The Whole Enchilada here.

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Mexico News Today June 26, 2020

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020

Mexico City will go to orange risk level as hospital occupancy trends downward The downgraded coronavirus risk level will allow some restrictions to be eased in the capital according to a staggered schedule starting Monday. FULL STORY Mexico City police chief wounded in armed attack; 3 people killed Omar García was wounded Friday morning after he and his bodyguards were attacked by armed men while traveling on Paseo de la Reforma. Two of his bodyguards and a bystander were killed. FULL STORY Share this email and introduce friends to Mexico News Daily Forward

San Juan Ozolotepec took the brunt of earthquake At least 200 buildings were damaged in the mountain municipality in Oaxaca in the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked southern and central Mexico on Tuesday. FULL STORY Another 6,000 coronavirus cases confirmed; total reaches 202,000 Mexico’s coronavirus case tally surged past 200,000 on Thursday with more than 6,000 new cases reported while the Covid-19 death toll exceeded 25,000. FULL STORY RELATED: With 5,437 new cases, Mexico’s coronavirus numbers closing in on 200,000. FULL STORY Covid-19 cases on rise in Baja California Sur A return to lockdown may be in the future if the coronavirus cannot be controlled, writes Susy Buchanan in her weekly report from Baja. FULL STORY Economic activity plunged 20% in April; worst decline ever recorded Coronavirus lockdown measures had a devastating effect on Mexico’s economy in April, new data shows. FULL STORY Workers say 4 Covid patients died due to power outage A failed generator caused the death of four coronavirus patients connected to ventilators in a Guadalajara hospital, claim staff at an ISSSTE hospital in Zapopan. FULL STORY Covid-19 testing offered to general public in Acapulco Testing will be performed at 16 different locations in the municipality, which has recorded 2,870 confirmed Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. FULL STORY Drought hits bean crops Although President Lopez Obrador has urged Mexicans to eschew expensive and processed foods and eat more beans, the country is facing a shortage due to drought and is being forced to import some 100,000 tonnes. FULL STORY Mayor looks to construction for economic reactivation The Mexico City government will invest almost 76.3 billion pesos (US $3.3 billion) in construction projects to help reactivate the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. FULL STORY THE MND POLL THE STORY: Mexico falls off list of top 25 destinations for foreign investment FULL STORY THE QUESTION: How attractive is Mexico as a destination for foreign investment? VOTE HERE LAST POLL: Do you believe that ex-president Calderón made secret deals with drug cartels? 78% said yes. VIEW FULL RESULTS Cartel infighting believed behind recent violence Cartel gunmen clashed in Tepuche, Sinaloa, a group of small rural communities near ​​Culiacán, leaving 15 people dead. They are presumed to have been feuding members of the Sinaloa Cartel. FULL STORY Military has dismantled 12 narco-camps in 6 months Located along the Madera-Largo Maderal-Nuevo Casas Grandes corridor, the camps consisted of between nine and 40 people. FULL STORY 14 bodies found at the side of Zacatecas highway The bodies were found wrapped in blankets and duct tape along federal highway 45, near Cerro Gordo. FULL STORY IMF predicts Mexico will take biggest economic hit in all of Latin America The International Monetary Fund forecast that GDP will shrink 10.5% this year, 3.9% below its April prediction. FULL STORY Man’s plea to stop deaths may have cost him his life A Guanajuato politician who appealed to a cartel boss for an end to violence against innocent people may have lost his life for his trouble. FULL STORY Not a good time to invest in Mexico, says US ambassador Christopher Landau charged that the government has not fulfilled its promise not to change the investment rules that were in place when it took office. FULL STORY Salamanca police reinforced after bomb attempt After a thwarted bomb attack on the Pemex oil refinery, federal Security Minister Alfonso Durazo announced that 150 federal officers will be dispatched to Salamanca for the next six months. FULL STORY AMLO predicts agreement with Spanish energy firm President López Obrador predicted that the government will reach an agreement with Iberdrola, which is reportedly canceling a US $1.2-billion power plant project in Veracruz. FULL STORY Film tells the story of Diana Kennedy, champion of Mexican cuisine The documentary explores the life and passions of the woman who has been described as 'the rock star of Mexican cooking.' FULL STORY

MEXICO LIFE Guadalajara’s abandoned geothermal project set to be reactivated The CFE spent humongous amounts of money on a project which never generated a single watt of power, writes John Pint of the 13 wells that were drilled in the Primavera Forest to tap geothermal activity. FULL STORY OPINION Earthquake survivor lived through two Big Ones. FULL STORY President López Obrador’s anti-corruption push is failing The president insists that Mexico’s greatest asset is “the honesty of its people,” but studies show corruption has worsened since he took office, writes Jude Webber. FULL STORY

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