Mexico is leading!! Unfortunately in the wrong category: Most hours worked per week.
Important breakdown:
working hours vs. salary in OECD countries.
Also not a positive development:
Mexico labor is now cheaper than China's!

Mexico brought in close to $5.7 billion in remittances in May, central bank data showed on Monday, breaking a monthly record that analysts cautioned was softened by the recent strength of the peso versus the dollar.
https://mexurl.com/MEXRemit

At first glance it looks a bit as if this bull is standing in the middle of a nebula, but in fact it is one of the many bull figures made in honor of "San Juan de Dios" in Tultepec, Mexico. The sculptures contain firecrackers that are set off as part of the celebrations.

Almost spring cleaning.... we remodel our website at https://www.la-paz-bcs.com/ - limitations may occur during the coming few days during that process.
Our blogs and social media are not impacted by the remodel
https://www.la-paz-bcs.com/

At least 49 people were killed when a trailer collided with a truck and overturned in southern Mexico on Thursday, with most of the victims believed to be migrants, according to local authorities.
The Civil Protection service of Chiapas state, which borders Guatemala, said at least 58 people were injured in the accident, three of them seriously.
http://wwwizzards.com/chiapas

Auto part suppliers Aptiv PLC and Lear Corp turned their plants and parking lots in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez into COVID-19 vaccination centers
http://r.sa-seo.com/vacune

Mexico has more than 2,400 municipalities, but only 73 Mexican cities generate 87% of GDP, house 64% of the population, and concentrate 89% of investment, according to the latest Urban Competitiveness Index (ICU) of the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness (IMCO).
https://t.me/s/mextidbits

We are back to level 5!!
The municipality falls back to level 5 (critical), which means that recreational and socio-cultural activities are suspended, as well as the maximum capacity is 30%.
https://www.facebook.com/LaPazBajaSurMexico/posts/10160322723148539

The Delta variant identified for the first time in India (B.1.617.2), which is considered largely responsible for the spectacular increase in cases in the Asian region and now start spreading in Europe and the USA
We will not be spared.......
https://www.bajanews.site/2021/06/covid19lapaz.html

Mexico is witnessing a wave of killings in the run up to the hotly contested midterm elections in early June. At least 87 people seeking office have been killed in recent months, according to a Mexican consulting firm, and hundreds of others targeted.
https://youtu.be/eczLMdba1Y8

Hundreds of people have gathered in Mexico City to demand justice for those who were killed when a metro overpass collapsed earlier this week.
Demonstrators converged from around the city and held a vigil at the site of the accident late on Friday.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said on Friday he expected Congress to pass its new law to legalize cannabis next week, a move that would effectively create one of the world’s largest weed markets.
Fox, a director at Colombian-Canadian Khiron Life Sciences which focuses on cannabis for medical use, has been a long-standing advocate for the decriminalization of marijuana in Mexico.
https://bajanews.site/VYxAKQ

With landscapes ranging from deserts to tropical forests, Sierra Gorda is one of Mexico's top biodiversity hotspots. Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo moved her family there in 1984 and started a non-profit conservation group to save the region from the impact of human activity. Today, she may be its most trusted protector.
https://a1le.xyz/7nwyUc

At the current pace, it would take a decade to vaccinate all Mexicans!!
Mexico’s vaccine program sees disastrous launch.
Pace for vaccinations has slowed as government website to register crashes repeatedly and Covid-19 death toll is third highest globally.
Many countries, including Canada and EU member states, have struggled to roll out their vaccine programs but Mexico’s disastrous launch came at a particularly bad time.
https://mexurl.com/ucwkyL

Mexico and the United States find themselves on the cusp of an unusual power transition in Washington, one that has put the future of the bilateral relationship in doubt..
https://a1le.xyz/huLjjf

Mexico added 1,368 confirmed coronavirus fatalities on Friday, bringing the running death toll to 164,290, while new infections rose by 13,051 for total cases to date of over 1.9 million, according to updated Health Ministry figures.
The hard-hit country’s Health Ministry has acknowledged that the true number of cases and deaths attributable to COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the virus, is almost certainly much higher.
https://mexurl.com/5y97M9

Crushing costs of Covid care leave grieving Mexican families facing ruin.
As the death toll mounts, even for those with health insurance medical bills can run into tens of thousands of dollars
https://mexurl.com/zp3RA5

Mexico’s health ministry on Sunday reported 7,030 new confirmed cases of #Coronavirus infection and 462 additional fatalities.
Bringing the total in the country to 1,864,260 cases and 158,536 deaths.
The government says the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases. #COVID19
https://bajanews.site/PJ1qXZ

The migrants Trump forced Mexico to stop.
The Mexican authorities had deployed the national guard to stop the caravan entering their country because Trump had threatened to increase tariffs on Mexican goods coming into the United States if they let migrants in. Previously, migrants had been allowed to traverse the length of Mexico with no problem.
https://mexurl.com/i4tYrq

Mexico sees holiday bump in tourism amid pandemic surge.
The positivity rate on COVID-19 tests in the Quintana Roo state is nearly 50% and the weekly number of COVID-19 deaths quadrupled from the week before Christmas to the week after. There was little debate over the health risks of promoting tourism versus the economic impact of losing all those jobs, said Alejandro Palafox-Muñoz, a professor of tourism at the University of Quintana Roo.