General Motors announced last week it will invest $1 billion in a manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, that will build electric vehicles by 2023. GM said the first stage of the project will include building a new paint plant at the Ramos Arizpe site, which will begin operations in June.
At a global meeting in Cancun, member businesses of the World Travel and Tourism Council said they want to fund projects in 4 Mexican states - Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Baja California Sur (BCS) and Jalisco. About $1.6 billion will go to Quintana Roo, while BCS and Jalisco will each get in excess of $250 million.
Mexico's data protection body plans to challenge a controversial new law that requires telecoms companies to gather user biometric data, saying it will argue before the Supreme Court that it violates privacy rights. The law, which passed in April, aims to stop criminals using unregistered mobile phones.
Mexico's Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, traveled to Moscow last Sunday for a visit with Russian officials, his office said, amid talks to hammer out plans for Mexico to bottle Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine domestically after delays in shipments.
Mexico is waiving an upcoming shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from India, which is in the throes of a brutal coronavirus second wave, as 'a way of expressing our solidarity,' President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said during his daily news conference on Tuesday.
Mexico will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to adults ages 50-59 during the first week of May, with registration beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, April 28, the general director of the National Center of Preventive Programs and Disease Control, Ruy Lopez, reported during the President's morning press conference.
US drugmaker Pfizer confirms that suspect doses of its coronavirus vaccine that were seized in Mexico and Poland were indeed fake. Pfizer tested the counterfeit versions in both countries and found they did not contain the two-shot Covid-19 vaccine it developed with BioNTech.
With the aim of promoting the reactivation of the tourism sector, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, on Monday proposed a plan to fully vaccinate all adults in five summer vacation destinations that are popular amongst American tourists.
Mexico's 100-peso note, with nun, writer and activist Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz on one side and monarch butterflies on the other, has been named banknote of the year for 2020 by the International Bank Note Society. As issuer of the note, the Bank of Mexico beat 24 other nominees to the award.
Mexican Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal's proposed bill to regulate social media networks could severely restrict free speech in Mexico, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The bill would require companies to censor broadly defined categories of online content in violation of international norms currently in force.
