FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, recently announced it is opening a $12.3 million distribution center in León, a city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. The new logistics facility will be FedEx Express' largest in Mexico, creating 150 jobs.
Attention U.S. citizen living in Mexico! On October 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of State posted a change in the status of U.S. Consular Operations in Mexico, including routine consular and visa services, which were suspended on March 18 due to COVID-19.
The U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least November 21, 2020, Chad Wolf of the U.S. Homeland Security Department tweeted on Monday. Air travel between the United States and Mexico remains unrestricted.
While the U.S. won't be 'falling back' until November 1, 2020, Daylight Saving Time officially ends for most of Mexico at 2:00 am on Sunday, October 25th. If you are here in Puerto Vallarta, be sure to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday night.
Experts in Mexico said last week they have detected more than 2,000 pre-Hispanic ruins or clusters of artifacts along the proposed route of the 'Maya Train' project. The INAH said at least 91 were large-scale structures like plazas, pyramid or temple platforms.
Two students from the state of Jalisco won the Mexican Informatics Olympiad and are now preparing to compete in the world's most prestigious computer science competition for high school students, the 2021 International Olympiad in Informatics, to be held in Singapore.
Delays in construction have put the 23,000-square-meter store that IKEA plans to open in Mexico City on hold, but the Swedish furniture and home accessories retailer has opened its doors online, and is offering 18 categories of goods for home delivery.
While neither Apple Inc. nor any Mexican financial institutions have made an official announcement, a new page on Apple's Mexico website details Apple Pay, suggesting that the country is finally about to get the mobile payment system.
In the complicated economic environment caused by the pandemic, Jalisco managed to create 11,165 new jobs during the month of September, putting it in third place nationwide for formal job creation, according to figures from the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
Mexico's Supreme Court (SCJN), which in 2018 ruled that laws forbidding the use of marijuana are unconstitutional, has given lawmakers until December 15, 2020 to draft new legislation for the recreational use and commercialization of cannabis.
