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.
In a video message posted to social media on Monday, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro warned that stricter restrictions on economic activities could be imposed if the number of new coronavirus cases continues to increase as it has over the past two weeks.
On October 1, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that as part of the actions to boost the economy in the south of the country, a new airport will be built in Tulum, Quintana Roo, one of the entities through which the Mayan Train will pass.
General Motors is celebrating 85 years of operations in Mexico, where the company was a pioneer in the automotive sector when it was first established in 1935. During the last eight and a half decades, GM Mexico has produced more than 15 million vehicles and almost 30 million engines.
Mexico registered its third consecutive monthly trade surplus in August, Mexico's National Statistics Institute said Monday. The country's $6.12 billion trade surplus was a record for the month of August, with imports totaling $30.86 billion and exports totaling $36.98 billion.
