Mexico News Today Wednesday, April 21, 2021

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021

US raises Mexico travel advisory to level 4 Citing Covid-19 concerns, the United States has raised its travel advisory for Mexico from level 3 to level 4, i.e., “Do not travel.” FULL STORY

Mexico eases restrictions at northern border, allowing nonessential travel to 5 states Starting Thursday, Mexico will lift its land-border crossing ban in any state that is green or yellow on the coronavirus stoplight map. FULL STORY

Minister proposes full Covid vaccination of adults in five tourist destinations Tatiana Clouthier is proposing to immunize all adult residents in the still undetermined locations to encourage more travel to Mexico. FULL STORY Group says rescue plan helped 1,200 small business A US $290-million private sector scheme meant to support owners through the Covid-19 pandemic with loans at favorable rates has helped more than 1,200 such concerns. FULL STORY INAH denounces building project found in protected archaeological area The agency filed a complaint against illegal construction going on at the Teotihuacán site in México state. FULL STORY Ministry turns down 3 Cancún hotel proposals Hospitality chain Palace Resorts planned to build a total of 1,356 rooms with an investment of US $270 million. The Environment Ministry said the projects are not advisable. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT Construction of tallest skyscraper in southeastern Mexico begins in Mérida The Sky, a corporate and commercial tower being built by real estate developer Sky Capital, will be 160 meters tall and require an investment of 1.8 billion pesos. FULL STORY Mazatlán’s new aquarium plans to open in October The oceanic museum is Mexico’s first public-private project in the tourist sector. It will open six months later than planned due to Covid. FULL STORY OPINION Is going home to get a vaccine ‘jumping the line’? Many expats in Mexico have the opportunity to get a Covid shot elsewhere, unlike many Mexicans. Should they? What, if any, ethics are involved, Sarah DeVries wonders. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Puppetry duo entertains, emotionally supports kids and adults in rural areas Sandra Reyes and Ángel Ledezma's work entertains children, also helping their older relatives process trauma and grief, Leigh Thelmadatter writes. FULL STORY Cartels fight back in Aguililla, deploy drones to attack police convoy The Jalisco New Generation Cartel was accused of attacking Michoacán security forces here hours after police dismantled an illegal blockade. FULL STORY Michoacán state security forces clear highway blockades in Aguililla The Apatzingán-Aguililla highway is again open after a turf war between two cartels left residents in fear and with few supplies. FULL STORY Extending Supreme Court chief's term ‘an assault on justice:’ Human Rights Watch regional director The NGO's head in the Americas said that a reform the Senate has passed to lengthen chief justice Arturo Zaldívar's term by two years would violate Mexico's constitution. FULL STORY President says Baja mine will not be granted permit to expand its operations Some citizens of Mulegé, Baja California Sur, are disappointed after the president rejected a request by El Boleo's owners to widen the surface area where it may extract minerals. FULL STORY National Guard offers victims' relatives 1mn pesos to withdraw charges  The military offered the money to the families of two people killed in a Nuevo Laredo car chase involving Guardsmen in exchange for authorizing the federal Attorney General's office to close their cases. FULL STORY Security-focused NGO ranks 18 Mexican cities among world’s 50 most violent Seven of the nation's municipalities had some of the highest per capita number of homicides worldwide during 2020, according to a study by a national nongovernmental organization. FULL STORY 66% feel unsafe where they live, down from 68% High levels of violence continue to plague Mexico, but citizens' perceptions of insecurity are at their lowest level in more than seven years. FULL STORY OPINION Fights over looted artifacts question museums’ role as culture guardians Repatriating stolen items held for centuries to their nations of origin often means confronting the history of how the pieces were taken away to begin with, writes Shannon Collins. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Ancient and modern roots both influence a Xochimilco Holy Cross fiesta San Gregorio Atlapulco's Día de la Cruz rituals have roots in the feast day's origins in 326 A.D. but also in traditions started 50 years ago, Joseph Sorrentino writes. FULL STORY

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Ortiz Tejeda Reading time: 4 min.

According to the National Association of Pharmacies, the manufacture of masks has become a multibillion dollar business. Photo Luis Castillo

 La Jornada newspaper,
Monday, April 19, 2021, p. 12

I don't know why, some of my close friends consider me too obsessive compulsive / obsessive compulsive / obsessive / compulsive type. They repeated it to me when I commented to them that this column would address, once again, some collateral problems of the pandemic to which, inexplicably, I feel that they have not been given due importance. We ignore, for example, not only important but horrifying data about the irrational war between the irresponsible and dehumanized global pharmaceutical companies, greedy for profit and utterly disinterested in individual human beings and, not even, humanity as a whole.

Just on January 10, 2021, Braulio Carbajal, as is his custom, surprised us with the following information: pharmaceutical companies increased their market value by almost 90 billion dollars, that is, almost three times more than the 653 thousand 400 million pesos that the Mexican government had projected last year for the health sector.

The 1.7 trillion pesos that, in market value, the pharmaceutical companies earned, are equivalent to 27% of the 6.2 trillion pesos that, according to the Ministry of Finance, would be the country's income in 2021.

Sandra Hernández and Alejandro Cruz venture into the popular social sections and tell us about the latest garment that has evolved the attire of 80% of the country's inhabitants, including, of course, the ragged people of the land and members of the Zipolite nudist camps. and Yerbabuena in Oaxaca or El Secreto in Guerrero. It turns out that, according to the National Association of Pharmacies, the manufacture of face masks has become a multi-million dollar business because, although the average cost per piece is not very high, its constant replacement means a production of millions of pieces per month and, therefore , a considerable sum of money. As ingenuity and creativity emerged, they were soon on the chins of hundreds of citizens. I saw a Diego Fernández de Cevallos with a long beard that included a legend: “thug, misogynist but very catholic. Viruses don't give me a fucking colic ”. I also recognized all the Marvel heroes in the juvenile jaws and applauded a grandmother who brought her own portrait printed on the mask that was shaped like a large scapular with the legend: “Vade Retro satanavirus, the heart of Jesus is with Mirus ”. She explained to me, talking about Ladito, that she was a faithful believer in scapulars and stopped them, because her grandfather had been a companion of none other than Anacleto González Flores (he loved that I knew, as good the heart of Jesus is with Mirus ”. She explained to me, talking about Ladito, that she was a faithful believer in scapulars and stopped them, because her grandfather had been a companion of none other than Anacleto González Flores (he loved that I knew, as good the heart of Jesus is with Mirus ”. She explained to me, talking about Ladito, that she was a faithful believer in scapulars and stopped them, because her grandfather had been a companion of none other than Anacleto González Flores (he loved that I knew, as goodAcejotaemero in my adolescence, who had been this lawyer from Guadalajara considered a martyr by the participants of the Cristiada). The Mirus thing was not to make a bad verse but because that's what they tell me at home, he clarified.

Well, the fact is that masks became a world industry. They are produced with all kinds of materials and are sold in public transport, street shops and obviously through the networks, that is why Time Square enchants the colors of the Mexican southeast. Well, despite what has been said, face masks, no matter how millionaire their production, are peccata minuta in the pandemic businesses.

Let me advance you some topics for next Monday (God willing). The pandemic and the business for billionaires in the US. The concentration in a minority of the world population of the number of vaccines applied. The lack of materials necessary for the production of a greater and urgent number of vaccines and etc., and etc. Do you find interesting topics for the following week?

I am not fond of issuing forecasts, especially since I generally hit the bad ones and fan the good ones. It is understandable that I do not want to become a bird of ill omen, but today an exception: Lilia Rossbach is going to be a splendid ambassador. I dare to affirm because, my relative, the once wet and today migrant, would say: I have the hair in my hand . I do not mention them now because these days Rossbach is going to be buried in a torrent of praise, flattery and proposals and, who would believe it, some will even be sincere. Also of the other will be the disqualifications, the invectives, the bile spilled by envy and the friendly and fraternal and, of course, sibylline grudges.

The future Mexican ambassador will be a welcome gesture of friendship with the Argentine people.

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¡Un festival del mango para el día de la madre! ¡Ven a disfrutar de música, juegos para los niños y deliciosas golosinas de mango!
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Mexico News Today Monday, April 19, 2021

 

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021

Mexico fell short on human rights file in 2020: international rights commission The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has criticized Mexico for failing to guarantee the human rights of a range of people last year. FULL STORY

AMLO to propose US fund tree-planting program in Central American nations President López Obrador wants the United States to offer would-be Central American migrants a path to U.S. citizenship via Mexico's Sembrando Vida scheme. FULL STORY

Gunmen open fire on Covid vaccination brigade workers Armed men attacked health personnel dispensing coronavirus vaccine shots in Michoacán. There were no injuries, but robbery may have been the motive for the attack. FULL STORY Vaccine tourism: Mexicans who can afford it head north for a coronavirus shot Dismayed by the slow rollout of shots at home, middle-class citizens from Mexico are traveling to the United States for the Covid vaccine. FULL STORY More than a year after closing, some schools reopen in Campeche  Students returned to in-person classes in various parts of the state on Monday for the first time since the pandemic began, but not all educators feel safe. FULL STORY Patria vaccine is being developed in Mexico with US-sourced technology Media reports were critical of the government for describing it as a homegrown invention. But the pharmaceutical is largely just that. FULL STORY Zapatistas prepare for ocean voyage to Europe The revolutionary indigenous group is sending the crew of seven to meet with people from various countries on the continent who have invited them to tell the rebels' story. FULL STORY Youths get jail time after selling marijuana brownies  There will be no more "space cakes" for connoisseurs of pot-based delicacies in Sonora after four young people were jailed for selling the laced desserts on social media. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Are Mexico’s iconic donkeys in danger of extinction? Many believe the nation's pack animals are dying out, but they are still part of life in areas where using vehicles is near impossible, Leigh Thelmadatter writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE When adding onion, let color be your guide Even the three most common onion types — yellow, red or purple and white — bring subtle flavor differences to take into account, Janet Blaser writes in The Tropical Table. FULL STORY With 23,000 illegal taps, thieves stole 14% of nation’s LP gas last year The Mexican gas association Amexgas estimates there were 23,000 robberies from Pemex pipelines last year. FULL STORY Cartel boss loses appeal; 20-year prison sentence stands Mario “El Metro” Cárdenas, ex-leader of the Gulf Cartel and brother of former leader Osiel Cárdenas, will remain in jail. FULL STORY Governor accused of assaulting teacher in beseiged Michoacán city The educator said that state chief executive Silvano Aureoles assaulted him after an incident on Tuesday in the city of Aguililla. FULL STORY Veracruz beach cleanup crew removes lumps of tar carried in by tide currents Members of the Vida Milenaria Turtle Encampment and personnel from government agencies cleared more than five kilometers of coastline in Tecolutla. FULL STORY Hundreds march in Sinaloa to demand justice in case of dog killed with axe Protesters in Los Mochis accompanied environmental activist Arturo Islas Allende as he delivered a criminal complaint on behalf of Rodolfo, a mixed-breed canine. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT Sor Juana bill wins award The new 100-peso bill has been named banknote of the year for 2020 by the International Bank Note Society. FULL STORY San Miguel Literary Sala hosts online events with film stars turned authors Despite the pandemic, the organization landed on its feet this year with upcoming interviews of two members of Hollywood royalty who have recently penned books. FULL STORY THE MND POLL THE STORY: Michoacán governor confirms that Aguililla being held hostage by feuding cartels.  FULL STORY THE QUESTION:  What would you do to resolve the situation in Aguililla, Michoacán?  VOTE HERE LAST POLL: If you have not already been vaccinated against Covid, will you obtain a shot when it’s available?  72% said they would.  FULL RESULTS