Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Friday that his administration is about to unveil a second package of infrastructure projects, which includes the participation of the private sector.

The president said that he will meet next week with the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Carlos Salazar, and other business leaders to review the proposal, which will include ideas meant to boost the nation's economy.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Eta powered up to near hurricane strength while heading for Central America, with forecasters warning it could bring a dangerous storm surge, damaging winds and the threat of floods and mudslides from heavy rains.

Eta, whose formation tied a record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to be a hurricane before dawn Monday and was predicted to be closing in on Nicaragua’s coast by early Tuesday.

SALVATIERRA, Mexico (AP) — Search teams dug for more remains Thursday at a site in central Mexico where 59 bodies have already been found in clandestine graves over the past week in an area known as a cartel battleground.

It was the largest such burial site found to date in Guanajuato, the state with the largest number of homicides in Mexico, though bigger clandestine burial sites have been excavated in other parts of the country.

MEXICO CITY, Oct 29 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – The death toll from COVID-19 in Mexico reached 90,309 yesterday, with 495 more deaths over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said.

The country has also registered 5,595 new infections, taking the national tally to 906,863.

“More than 906,000 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Mexico, including 90,309 people, who have unfortunately died from the disease’s complications,” said Jose Luis Alomia, director of epidemiology, at the Health Ministry.

Mexico City, Oct 24 (AP/PTI) The Morena party of Mexican President Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador finally chose a leader Friday after two failed, acrimonious attempts.

A poll of party members gave a comfortable margin of victory to congressional leader Mario Delgado, a centrist seen as more obedient to the president.

The results of an earlier poll that showed a tie had been hotly disputed by Porfirio Mu oz Ledo, an 87-year-old political warhorse who has been critical at times of L pez Obrador.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.

MEXICO CITY, Oct 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Their arms raised towards the sky, worshippers of Mexico’s “saint” of death pray before a giant cloaked skeleton asking for protection from the coronavirus and its devastating economic fallout.

The Grim Reaper-like figure, whose devotees include drug cartel members as well as ordinary Mexicans, has been rejected by the Roman Catholic Church as blasphemous.

But with tens of thousands of Mexican lives lost to COVID-19, there is no shortage of followers of “Santa Muerte”.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s.

In the letter, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also asks the pope to lend Mexico ancient pre-Hispanic Mexican or colonial-era documents.

“The Catholic Church, the Spanish monarchy and the Mexican government should make a public apology for the offensive atrocities that Indigenous people suffered,” the letter states.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and headed toward Louisiana after making landfall just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun, toppling trees and cutting power to residents of the Yucatan peninsula’s resort-studded coast.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta, a slightly weakened but still dangerous Category 4 storm, barreled toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with winds of 130 mph (215 kph) for an expected landfall south of the Cancun resort before dawn Wednesday.

Quintana Roo Gov. Carlos Joaquín said the state government had prepared, but warned residents and tourists that “it is a strong, powerful hurricane,” though he considered it a good sign that Delta had weakened a bit late Tuesday. He said the area hadn’t seen a storm like it since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.