The Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced this Tuesday that in January states that have a low risk level in the epidemiological traffic light will be able to return to classes voluntarily. “We want a safe return to classes in January and that safe return to classes will obviously be for the states that are in the green,” said Esteban Moctezuma, head of the SEP, in a video message. Mexico has no contact sessions since March 23, when he began the so – called National Day of healthy distance from the pandemic of covid-19 , which has more than…
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On the Christmas of the covid-19 , Christmas Eve cannot be missed for Mexican families. At least the plant. The colors and the mere presence of this flower of pre-Hispanic heritage and known throughout the world represent the hope of a 2021 with better news. “It is a flower that usually does not exist during the year, it does not grow, and it does give the Christmas touch every year with the color red,” Verónica Castilla explained to Efe on Monday, with a handful of recently purchased Nochuebuena plants. Castilla is one of the Mexican women who, despite the covid-19…
Barclays improved the growth outlook for the Mexican economy in 2021 to 4.5% from a previous 3% . The recovery in confidence is driven by the arrival of a vaccine, said Marco Oviedo, chief economist for Barclays . Today in the United Kingdom the first person was vaccinated and Mexico’s position is good for having guaranteed 180 million doses. The new estimate for next year is conservative, and much will depend on the recovery of sectors sensitive to the pandemic . In the case of manufacturing, if it grows moderately in 2021, around 13.4%, it would contribute one more point…
One year after the National Agreement for the New Plastic Economy, the Mexican industry informs the Senate of Mexico and the general population of the progress of actions to reduce, recycle and reuse containers and packaging for a wide variety of products, with the aim to contribute to national goals for the use of plastics . Mexico is fourth in the world in PET recycling, only behind Sweden, Germany and the European Union, and the industries that signed the agreement indicate in their report that 71% of containers and packaging are already reusable, recyclable, compostable or usable. The goal is…
“The first step to access financial inclusion is through financial education, ” says Luis Silva de la Torre, Director of Fintech Mexico at the round table Financial Inclusion in Mexico: challenges and trends 20-21. Changing the idiosyncrasy of Mexicans, the false beliefs about saving and managing digital money, as well as ending the fears of investing are the main challenges faced in the country, according to the executives who participated in the organized digital event by the fintech Ualá. Santiago Salinas, director of the BIVA Institute, pointed out at the meeting that “the pandemic played against the promotion of financial…
The adverse circumstance of the coronavirus made the celebration of Mother’s Day different . Less closeness, more social distancing, but the same love for those who, in the midst of a pandemic, have been a mother, worker, teacher and caregiver. Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), has stated, with regard to unpaid work, that women work up to double or triple in their homes “and this is also due to the suspension of classes that gives additional burdens to women ”. According to figures from María Noel Vaeza, regional director of…
Since the publication of the report of the Tax Justice Network (TJN) platform , called The State of Tax Justice: Tax Justice in the Times of Covid-19 (November 2020), journalists have come out to highlight what we have been denouncing for years : that the discriminatory lists of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) only hide the resounding failure of the European socialist economic model, its incompetent bureaucracy and the hypocrisy of its rulers, especially in everything that refers to tax avoidance and evasion. Vicente Nieves of the Spanish financial daily El Economista,…
Credit cards are part of the finances of many citizens today. Through them, expenses are financed, discounts are accessed and they have also served as lifesavers for many people who have lost their jobs. According to Asobancaria reports, by August 2020, in Colombia, there were more than 15 million active credit cards; In June, purchases with these cards represented 8.1% of total spending by Colombians, which, according to Raddar, is equivalent to about 58.4 trillion pesos. Although cards represent a benefit for users, they also tend to bring problems, hence even many have chosen to hand over theirs, as shown…
There is an unstoppable reality and it is the right of countries to seek the sustainability of their economies, beyond the great global agreements on issues such as the best tax model. This reality has been in evidence during the forum Perspectives on the taxation of the digital economy, sponsored by Capital Financiero, the Connectax tax platform and the International Fiscal Association (IFA Panama Group), when addressing what is on the table of international discussion, In addition to commenting on the recent experiences of Mexico and Colombia with the collection of the digital Value Added Tax (VAT), the equivalent in…
The Ministry of Public Works (MOP) reported that 80% of the work is progressing to enable and clear the roads and production roads of the Tierras Altas district, in the province of Chiriquí, which were affected after the passage of hurricane ETA. In Bambito, Paso Ancho township, Tierras Altas district , the highway collapsed due to the overflow of the Chiriquí Viejo river. Currently, road rehabilitation work is 80% complete. In the area, the construction of a rocky-type protection wall was also carried out. This week the first asphalt layer is expected to be thrown away, an important road that…