Mexico News Today Monday, December 7, 2020

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020

Those with Covid symptoms told to call first  As hospitals in many states fill, the federal Health Ministry has advised calling 911 to confirm the availability of hospital beds before seeking treatment.  FULL STORY

Baja California, Zacatecas back to red on virus map The two states went to maximum risk level while Veracruz became the third green light 'low' risk state. FULL STORY

Faith trumps Covid: fear of coronavirus doesn’t stop pilgrims to Guadalupe  Divine intervention is needed now more than ever, say the faithful. FULL STORY Checo Pérez is Mexico's first Formula 1 winner since 1970 The Guadalajara native won his first Formula One race on Sunday at the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT OPINION  Soaring peso a quadruple whammy for the economy A four-peso difference in the exchange rate puts billions of kilos' worth of fewer tortillas on the tables of Mexico's hungriest, Carlisle Johnson writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE  From food to tourist attraction: Mexico’s sea turtles' long road Nesting turtles were once not protected but hunted for their meat, shells, and eggs, Leigh Thelmadatter writes. FULL STORY OPINION  Expats give Mexico low sustainability ratings A new expat survey ranked Mexico’s environment high but its sustainability and green awareness low, Greg Custer writes. FULL STORY OPINION  Mexicans have fond and vivid memories of Diego Maradona The Argentinian soccer player was the big attraction at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City, Shannon Collins writes. FULL STORY Morena party chief lashes out at ‘perverse alliance’  With the 2021 elections still six months away, the ruling party and a three-party opposition coalition have begun a war of words. FULL STORY Parties forming a coalition to defeat Morena in 2021  The National Action Party, the Democratic Revolution Party and the Institutional Revolutionary Party will field common candidates. FULL STORY Yucatán cenote cleanup yields a mysterious find A routine cleanup of a Yucatán cenote yielded a surprise embedded in the underwater cave’s debris. FULL STORY Pemex rescinds contracts awarded to AMLO's cousin  Litoral Laboratorios Industriales, which provides chemical and microbiological testing of oil products, won four Pemex contracts last year. FULL STORY OPINION  Release of ex-defense minister a sign that AMLO wishes to coddle the army The López Obrador government has gone to unprecedented lengths to appease the military, Milena Ang writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE  Homemade seasonings spice up holiday gift giving Freshly ground spice mixes are a unique alternative to holiday cookies and make for a one-of-a-kind gift your friends will remember all year, Janet Blaser writes in The Tropical Table. FULL STORY THE MND POLL THE STORY: Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen FULL STORY THE QUESTION:  Does the lack of enforcement of the ban against nonessential travel increase the risk of spreading the coronavirus? VOTE HERE LAST POLL: Is the ethics guide a useful tool to strengthen values or would government resources have been better spent elsewhere? 75% said no. FULL RESULTS

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Viewpoint of Puerto Angel is excited to present new rescue tubes to the lifeguards of Zipolite. It’s always great to have the opportunity to give back to the community and especially to a group who regularly risks their lives to keep us all safe.

 

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Viewpoint of Puerto Angel is excited to present new rescue tubes to the lifeguards of Zipolite. It’s always great to have the opportunity to give back to the community and especially to a group who regularly risks their lives to keep us all safe.

Cafe Maya Zipolite - Casa Acalli

 

Cafe Maya Zipolite - Casa Acalli

Marginalization and discrimination towards people with disabilities are accentuated by a pandemic in ... NVI News This was stated by Flavia Anaud, general coordinator of the Piña Palmera Center , AC, a place that offers rehabilitation and care with a focus on ...

 

Marginalization and discrimination towards people with disabilities are accentuated by a pandemic in ... NVI News This was stated by Flavia Anaud, general coordinator of the Piña Palmera Center , AC, a place that offers rehabilitation and care with a focus on ...

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Marginación y discriminación hacia personas con discapacidad se acentúan por pandemia en la Costa

SAN PEDRO POCHUTLA.- La situación de marginación y discriminación que enfrentan de forma cotidiana las personas con discapacidad, se ha acentuado de forma considerable desde la prevalencia por la pandemia por coronavirus, lo que representa retos aún mayores para su inclusión social y búsqueda del respeto de sus derechos en un entorno comunitario.

Así lo sostuvo Flavia Anaud, coordinadora general del Centro Piña Palmera, A. C., lugar que ofrece rehabilitación y atención con un enfoque de inclusión y derechos humanos a personas con discapacidad de comunidades de la Costa y Sierra Sur desde hace 36 años y cuya sede se ubica en Zipolite, Pochutla.

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En el marco del Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, que éste año la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) conmemora bajo el lema “Un día para todos”, Anaud sostiene que a la falta de inclusión social y acceso a oportunidades de desarrollo pleno; ahora éste sector suma retos aún más específicos ante la falta de información asequible a las familias sobre la COVID-19 y dada la desigualdad que permea ante las nuevas condiciones que plantea la educación a distancia.

“Hacen falta explicaciones sencillas y en su idioma para que las familias con discapacidad puedan aplicar los protocolos relacionados a la enfermedad; asimismo se vulnera el acceso a la educación porque ahora con la imposición del estudio virtual, la mayoría de las familias no pueden pagar la cuota de internet, lo que las deja rezagadas y discriminadas”, explicó la entrevistada.

Difícil acceso a la salud

En el mismo tenor, detalló, el acceso a la salud y atención médica se ve mermado por lo difícil que resulta para las personas con discapacidad acudir a un centro de salud ante padecimientos distintos al coronavirus, en un espectro de edades y discapacidades diversas.

Los retos para las personas con discapacidad se intensificaron con la pandemia, lo que obliga a revisar qué podemos hacer en lo subsecuente en cada uno de los rubros, agregó.

Piña Palmera focaliza esfuerzos

En cuanto al trabajo que realiza Piña Palmera, Flavia Anaud, señaló que aunque el centro y su calendario de actividades no se detuvieron, la pandemia los obligó a tomar todas las medidas sanitarias pertinentes para evitar contagios y se realizó una atención más personalizada en comunidades para continuar con las actividades de inclusión y rehabilitación.

Actualmente la organización Piña Palmera atiende a poco más de 500 personas de diferentes edades y discapacidades (física, intelectual, auditiva, visual y psicosocial) de la Costa y Sierra Sur de Oaxaca con procesos de rehabilitación y terapia física, así como con actividades tendientes a la inclusión social, con información, capacitación, concientización y sensibilización de personas con discapacidad y sus familias.

Firefly Cinema, Cine Luciernaga, Zipolite

 

Maui Pro Presented by ROXY - DAY 1

 

TNT Music beach nightclub.

 

Mexico News Today Friday, December 4, 2020

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020

In CDMX, hospital workers feel the pressure  The coronavirus situation continues to worsen as hospitals are filling up and crowds of residents throng the streets. FULL STORY

Private-sector doctors worried over influenza vaccine  Unable to obtain enough flu vaccines, the doctors are expressing concerns that the situation risks increasing the illness's spread in the coming months. FULL STORY

Despite a travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen home  In the winter season, the Programa Paisano plans to welcome 500,000 Mexican nationals for the holidays. FULL STORY Coronavirus has shuttered a million small businesses Over 1 million small and medium-sized businesses closed forever. FULL STORY Querétaro begins rapid testing for Covid-19 Querétaro has followed Mexico City's lead to speed up the identification and isolation of cases. FULL STORY The challenges Mexico’s search commissioner faces Karla Quintana's gargantuan and unenviable task is leading the search for over 79,000 people, most of whom have disappeared since 2006. FULL STORY 1 person dead, 56 homes destroyed in BCS fires  Four Baja California border communities were hit by fires this week fueled by Santa Ana winds. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT Cold front delivers first snow of the season in Chihuahua Five municipalities — Buenaventura, Bachiniva, Guerrero, Batopilas, and Galeana — were blanketed in white Friday morning. FULL STORY Best Buy closes its stores, drawing huge crowds The chain's liquidation sale generated such fervor that the company had to close all its stores early. FULL STORY Gang violence escalates in Michoacán: clash between rival cartels leaves 6 dead Firefights between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and rival criminal group Cárteles Unidos raged in four municipalities this week. FULL STORY Business-friendly bureaucrat resigns as AMLO’s chief of staff President López Obrador announced that his chief of staff was stepping down but would keep on being his 'main link' to the private sector. FULL STORY Petroleum pipeline thefts continue to plague Pemex  The company saw 1,103 illegal taps in September and 1,077 in October, according to the government's online transparency platform. FULL STORY Government turns off natural gas to ethylene plant with ties to Odebrecht The federal government has been critical of a contract that obliges Pemex to sell ethane to the plant at a price it claims is unfair. FULL STORY Mercado Libre aims to speed delivery with new aircraft The Amazon rival has unveiled a fleet of four cargo planes to up the delivery speed of products across Mexico. FULL STORY Analysts say new public-private infrastructure plan falls woefully short The plan to build 68 infrastructure projects at almost 526bn pesos will have a limited impact on the economy, experts say. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Where to exercise when the pandemic has closed gyms? A skatepark! Skateboarding, as Luis Medina discovered in his 40s, offers not only germ-free exercise but also friendship, writes John Pint. FULL STORY

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Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays Published on Thursday, December 3, 2020

  The Programa Paisano launch in Tijuana on Wednesday.

Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen

No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays

Published on Thursday, December 3, 2020

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Despite a Covid-19 travel ban across the Mexico-United States land border, Mexico’s Programa Paisano got up and running yesterday for the winter season, preparing to welcome home an expected 500,000 Mexican nationals for holiday visits.

The year-round program’s mission is to facilitate the transit of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. and Canada while they visit their home country. The program has special campaigns during the summer and winter, the busiest times of the year for Mexicans living abroad to come back to visit. In 2019, it served 4 million people. This year, it has so far served 600,000, a decrease which officials attribute to the pandemic.

Many of those visitors, living permanently in the United States and Canada, are expected to cross the land border into Mexico which, by agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, is supposed to be closed in both directions to all but essential travel until at least December 21 in order to slow the spread of Covid-19.

But officials with the National Immigration Institute (INM) say it would be impossible to stop Mexicans coming home to see family during the holidays.

“You can’t prohibit a Mexican from exercising his right to return to his home country,” said commissioner Francisco Garduño, adding that the institute will be taking all necessary health safety measures at the border.

Last month, Mexico surpassed 1 million Covid-19 cases. Virtually every state in the country is at least at yellow status on the national coronavirus stoplight map.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently called for “prudence” and encouraged Mexicans to avoid border crossings between Mexico and the U.S. for reasons of recreation, tourism, or “the celebrations that traditionally take place in these months,” but the tone seemed far from authoritative.

“We know that despite the recommendation, they are going to cross the border, so we have to be ready to attend to the needs of migrants who may come to visit their families,” said Luis Gutiérrez, head of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, a federal agency.

While crossing into the U.S. is generally agreed to be vigilantly monitored to make sure travelers have a valid reason to enter, many report that the situation is not the same going in the opposite direction. In recent months, citizens and lawmakers alike in border states have called upon Mexico to enforce the travel ban supposedly in place. That the Programa Paisano will carry on more or less as usual seems indicative that the situation is not likely to change.

Certainly, at INM’s official launch of the program’s winter campaign this week in Tijuana, attitudes seemed welcoming and even encouraging of Mexicans coming home for the holidays: officials played an upbeat video featuring President López Obrador, who highlighted the contributions of Mexican migrants during times of uncertainty, implicitly referring to billions of dollars in remittances that Mexicans send home each year.

“We are going to protect you and care for you because you are Mexicans, because you are coming to your country, because you help us; and in these times, more than ever, you are supporting us. You deserve the best of treatment, to be received like heroes — our migrant countrymen,” said López Obrador in the video.

As of October 31, Mexicans working abroad, mainly in the U.S., had sent home nearly US $30 billion.

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune (sp)