President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed on Monday Galia Borja to occupy the post of deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) , among other movements. “At the end of this year the term of a deputy governor is concluded and he will be replaced by Galia Borja Gómez , (who) is currently the treasurer of the Federation, ” he said at the morning conference. In turn, Borja will be replaced in her current position by Elvira Concheiro , a researcher on social issues. In the same round of adjustments, the president of Mexico proposed to the upper house…
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Foreign agents, such as those of the Drug Control Administration (DEA, for its acronym in English), that operate in Mexico will not only be prohibited from applying foreign laws in our territory, but will also be obliged to provide the Mexican authorities with the information they collect during their stay. The initiative to reform the National Security Law, proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Senate, seeks to “limit” the actions of foreign agents operating in our country, so they will not have any immunity in case of incurring the commission of crimes. Thus, the project proposes that…
British health authorities began to supply the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday that passed exhaustive controls and independent reviews, kicking off a global immunization campaign that is expected to gain momentum as more drugs are approved. The first vaccine was given first thing in the morning in one of the hospital centers that will handle the initial phase of the British program. The first person to be vaccinated was Margaret Keenan, a grandmother who will turn 91 next week. He received the injection at Coventry University Hospital at 6:31 a.m. local time. Keenan said she felt “very…
Universal Music is acquiring the complete catalog of Bob Dylan songs , a collection that spans six decades and includes many of the most iconic tunes in music history. Universal did not reveal the price of the deal, although Dylan’s songs are worth more than $ 200 million, according to people familiar with the terms. The collection includes 600 works, from songs from the early 1960s such as Blowin ‘in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin , to an album released this year, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Dylan, 79, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, is…
In November 2020, 287,703 cars were exported from Mexico, an increase of 4.7 percent compared to the same month last year. This is the largest increase reported by the industry for a similar month since 2017, in addition to being the second positive annual variation in this item in 2020, which means the recovery in this activity, reported INEGI. The increase was due to a greater demand for cars in the United States, since 233,374 units were shipped to this market last November, an increase of 1.1 percent compared to the same month in 2019. In addition, it is the…
Ricardo Anaya considered this Monday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is “trapped in the past” and assured that he has a clear “contempt” for new technologies . The former presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) pointed out in a video on his official Twitter account that the current president is always ” giving history classes, quite bad by the way . Sometimes he seems to have his eyes on the back of his neck, In other words, instead of imagining the future, he is nostalgic for the old “. Anaya questioned that “contempt for the technologies of…
The new Secretary of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, will have to face various challenges in an economy depressed by the health contingency of COVID-19 , for which experts consulted by El Financiero advised her to focus on developing a greater business vision and supporting small and medium-sized companies, especially due to the devastating scenario that the pandemic left in thousands of businesses. Gerardo Tajonar, national president of the National Association of Importers and Exporters of the Mexican Republic (ANIERM) , pointed out that the foreign trade sector has great hope that during the new administration of the Economy the small and…
The peso fell marginally on Monday against the North American currency, as it corrected in global markets when the appetite for risk assets, while they are weighing new sanctions on Chinese officials and a disorderly Brexit no deal. In the interbank sphere, the Mexican currency lost 0.39 percent, bringing the exchange rate to 19.87 units per dollar, according to data from the Bank of Mexico (Banxico). The national currency touched a minimum of 19.7666 units observed levels observed at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday and a maximum of 19.97 at 3:16 a.m. At the bank window, the green ticket is sold…
It hasn’t happened to you that you suddenly ask yourself simple questions like “what the hell did I do to the remote?” and ends with a deep existential crisis questioning “what does reality itself mean?” We will expand on those doubts below – without giving a conclusive answer because science has not yet been able to resolve them. The Big Bang theory, in one way or another, has always been considered as “the beginning of the universe” , of all existence. However, do we know the details of this “explosion”? Let’s go back, little by little, in space-time to try…
Given the increase in cases of COVID-19, Grupo Financiero Banorte enabled the option that through the WhatsApp messaging service users can request their turn to go to one of its branches , which already operates in some parts of the country and will be in force at the end of this year throughout Mexico. Marcos Ramírez Miguel, CEO of Grupo Financiero Banorte, explained that “it is time to take care of ourselves. Customers who have to attend a branch will be able to request their turn from a healthy distance and thus avoid standing in line. Now in Banorte the…