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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 17 May 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 16 May, Francisco Romero Díaz, a crime reporter for local dailies and director of local news website Ocurrió Aquí, was murdered in the beach resort of Playa del Carmen, in the Solidaridad municipality of Mexico’s Quintana Roo state.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show the national unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2019 was 3.5%, up 0.1 percentage points on the previous quarter and up 0.2 percentage points on the same quarter in 2018.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
After months of planning and years of disruptive protests by teachers’ unions, on 15 May, national teacher’s day, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was finally able to announce the repeal of the 2012-2013 education reform approved under the previous government of Enrique Peña Nieto government (2012-2018) and promulgate his own new reform.... Read More
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced government plans on 11 May to open a public internet company that will allow even those in the most remote areas of the country to get online.... Read More
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