International tourism in Mexico has finally surpassed pre-pandemic levels, after 10.26 million visitors came to the country in the first half of 2022, Mexico’s Tourism Department reported Friday. International arrivals from January to June 2022 were up 1.5% from the 10.11 million tourists who arrived in Mexico in the first half of 2019.
These days, when most Americans think of the US-Mexico border, it’s in the context of illegal smuggling and immigration. In reality, that barely scratches the surface of cross-border activity. Nearly $1 million of bilateral trade takes place across the US-Mexico border every minute. That’s roughly $1.8 billion per day.
During his Tuesday morning press conference, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced a series of investments with private and public resources that are being made in the State of Nayarit and the city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said last week that he was confident inflation control measures taken by his administration will slow down rising prices in the country. The Mexican government's main inflation strategy has been to contain the rise in prices by subsidizing fuel prices and capping the cost of certain foods.
The fast-fashion online clothing seller Shein has dropped an embroidered floral blouse after the Mexican government complained it appropriated designs made for generations by Mayan women on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. 'These designs are product of the collective creativity that belongs to the Maya people,' Mexico’s Culture Department said.
Intentional homicides in Mexico fell to 15,400 in the first half of 2022, down 9.1 percent from the 16,948 homicides reported over the same six-month period of last year, the government said Wednesday. Gender-related killings, or femicides, fell 8.02 percent to 493 for the six-month period.
Avocados from Jalisco can now be made into guacamole on the other side of the border. After 10 years of waiting, the U.S. has authorized the importation of the fruit from this state. Until now, Michoacán had a monopoly on exports to the U.S., generating $2.8b USD last year.
Last week in Mexico City, Google announced that it will invest 200 million pesos ($9.9 million USD) over the next three years to train women in Mexico’s southeast. The training will help 2,300 women develop their digital skills in order to improve their work prospects.
Mexico is one step away from saying goodbye to daylight saving time after more than two decades. On Tuesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent the initiative to Congress which, if passed, will eliminate advancing the clock on the first Sunday in April and turning it back on the last Sunday in October.
Jalisco drove national employment growth in the first half of 2022, creating 10.4% of the total number of new jobs created in Mexico. Official statistics show that the Mexican economy added 448,560 formal jobs from January to June 2022 and 46,756 of those were in the western state.
