What's Happening in Mexico Right Now?

 

Laura Bronner | Eternal Expat  via  n.convertkit.com	9:33 AM (12 hours ago)
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Hi Mexico-loving friends,

We have finally arrived in the last month of 2020. It feels equally like we would never get here and like I can't believe it is somehow already December (isn't it still April?)

It's been a busy, busy month at Eternal Expat HQ. We arrived in Mazatlán just over two weeks ago and I've been sitting behind my computer trying to catch up with all of the videos that I recorded during our trip and trying to keep up to date with my blog as well . 

What Jalisco Looks Like Right Now

You can finally see what we got up to while in Jalisco! Here are all of the videos from that trip.

• Visiting Guadalajara During Covid-19
• To Jalisco Road Trip
• Is Chapala Worth the Hype?  (Spoiler: YES)
• My Favorite Town in Lake Chapala
• Tequila was NOT What I was Expecting!

Since I made that first video, the state of Jalisco has finished the "emergency button" state and are now functioning almost as normal with precautions in place. As always, things are changing constantly, so be sure to check sites like Mexico New Daily or local newspapers like Puerto Vallarta Daily for news on closures and regulations that are currently in place.    

There are FOUR new videos coming out this week on my YouTube channel, so be sure to follow along there so you don't miss out on all of the Chihuahua content coming your way!

Subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

Recent Changes Around Mexico

The Mexican state of Nayarit (home to Sayulita and Punta Mita) as well as the state of Morelos (home to Cuernavaca) have both recently made face masks mandatory in public places.

According to Nayarit lawmakers, "People not wearing face masks in public places or who fail to follow social distancing recommendations can now be arrested and held in custody for 36 hours or alternatively face fines of up to 1,700 pesos (US $ 85)."

Read more about those regulations on this Mexico News Daily article.

Mexico City hangs on the verge of moving into the red for the holiday season. They have been recording record high numbers of over 10,000 new cases per day. Some hospitals are turning patients away because they are completely full. Read that full story here . 

As always, if you have any other questions, please feel free to hit reply and ask away.

Until next time,

Laura

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Interjet cancels all its flights again as it has no money for fuel 24 flights were canceled on the weekend, followed by 19 more on Monday Published on Monday, November 30, 2020

Interjet cancels all its flights again as it has no money for fuel

24 flights were canceled on the weekend, followed by 19 more on Monday

Published on Monday, November 30, 2020

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For the second time in less than a month and four days before a scheduled employee strike over nonpayment of wages, the financially beleaguered airline Interjet abruptly canceled its flights this past weekend and into Monday morning, reportedly due to a lack of fuel.

Nineteen flights scheduled for today between Mexico City and Cancún, Monterrey, Cozumel, Guadalajara and Mérida were canceled this morning. On the weekend, 24 other flights between Mexico City and Cancún, Monterrey and Cozumel were also canceled with little notice to passengers.

Interjet employees interviewed by the newspaper La Jornada said the cancellation of flights came as a surprise to them. As of this morning, Interjet still had flights scheduled in and out of Mexico City for this evening, all occurring after 5 pm  

This is the second time Interjet has had to cancel flights due to the inability to purchase fuel. Passengers flying between October 31 and November 2 also had their flights canceled with little warning, affecting 3,099 travelers.

The airline has been plagued with setbacks throughout 2020, stemming from debts going back nearly a decade, and worsened by losses in income this year due to the coronavirus pandemic's effects on the airline industry.

It currently owes unpaid wages going back five pay periods to more than 5,000 workers, who are threatening to strike starting on Friday. Earlier this month, a federal judge greenlighted a lawsuit against Interjet by Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA), the federally owned company that manages about two dozen airports and provides aviation fuel, in order to recover unpaid fuel debts.

The consumer protection agency Profeco recently issued a warning to Mexicans not to use Interjet, citing its tendency to change or cancel flights with little warning, saying the fault in the previous incident in October was "completely attributable to the airline." In 2019, Profeco received 769 complaints from consumers against Interjet, 322 of them related to changed or canceled flights, refunds, or advertised discounts.

As of November 3, said Profeco, it had received twice as many complaints, 1,542 in total, 904 of which were ticketing related. The chief complaint was over flight cancellations.

In February, the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity said it had found evidence that Interjet owes more than 3 billion pesos (US $ 150 million) in taxes and other debts to various federal agencies, including the Federal Tax Administration (SAT) and ASA.

The airline dismissed the report as "imprecise" and said it had reached agreements with SAT to pay off its debts. However, the tax agency's chief, Raquel Buenrostro, told reporters that the only agreement it had made with Interjet was that it should pay income and sales tax debt dating back to 2013.

Source: El Financiero (sp), Sin Embargo (sp), La Jornada (sp)