Money sent home by migrants rose 11.4% in 2020 to a new high despite the coronavirus pandemic, Mexico's central bank reported. The $40.6 billion sent home to Mexico in 2020 was equivalent to the combined entire budgets of the Mexican government's education, health, labor, welfare and culture departments.
Due to the high rate of coronavirus infections and Covid-related deaths in the State of Jalisco, on Friday, January 29, Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez announced that the containment measures that were mandated on January 16, and scheduled to end on January 31, will be extended until Friday, February 12.
February 5th is Mexican Constitution Day, commemorating the day the Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos was signed in 1917. Nowadays, the official observance is on the first Monday in February, which in 2021 is on the 1st, so everyone can enjoy a long weekend.
Mexico's just-completed census puts the country's population at 126 million people, and finds it a bit older, better educated and more connected to the internet, officials announced Monday. The every-decade census carried out last year raised the total count from 114 million in 2010.
Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, who will turn 81 on Thursday, has suffered from Covid-19 with 'minor symptoms' for more than a week, according to his son, Carlos Slim Domit. For his part, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is reportedly 'well and strong' after testing positive for the virus.
Given that the U.S. government requires all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the country, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) is installing temporary testing laboratories in each of the twelve airports it operate in Mexico.
At least two of Mexico's three largest private airport operators - Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico and Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste - have announced they intend to resume their pre-pandemic investment plans as Mexican passenger traffic is returning to growth.
New research suggests Spanish conquistadores butchered women and children in an Aztec-allied town where the inhabitants sacrificed and ate a detachment of Spaniards months earlier. The National Institute of Anthropology and History published findings on Monday from years of excavation work at the town of Tecoaque.
Mexican workers in the U.S. sent a record $36.9 billion home in the first 11 months of 2020. According to data released by the Bank of Mexico, remittances rose 11% through November 2020, compared to the same period in 2019, and eclipsed the record $36.4 billion sent in all of 2019.
The U.S. government will require all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The order will go into effect on January 26, 2021.
