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Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Mexico look to take legal action against Adidas, Reuters say
After Adidas (ADDYY) worked with Mexican American designer Willy Chavarria to launch a show inspired by a traditional Indigenous sandal, Mexico is looking for Addidas to pay up, Raul Cortes of Reuters reports. 'Big companies often take products, ideas and designs from Indigenous communities,' Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said. 'We are looking at the legal part to be able to support them.' Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence.
Japan Today
25-06-2025
- Japan Today
Mass shooting in gang-plagued Mexican state leaves 11 dead and more injured
By Lizbeth Diaz and Raul Cortes At least 11 people were killed, including a teenager, and more wounded in a Tuesday night shooting in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, authorities said on Wednesday. The attorney general's office in Guanajuato, the violence-plagued state where Irapuato is located, said that 20 others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said earlier on Wednesday that the victims included children, although the attorney general's office later confirmed only one casualty was a minor, aged 17. "It is very unfortunate what happened. An investigation is under way," Sheinbaum said. Local media reported the shooting happened during an evening party celebrating a Catholic holiday, the Nativity of John the Baptist. A video circulating on social media showed people dancing in the patio of a housing complex while a band played in the background, before gunfire erupted. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the video. Guanajuato has been for many years one of the most violent regions in the country, where criminal groups fight over routes to price drugs and commit other crimes. On Tuesday, five other people were killed in other parts of the state, according to the attorney general's office. © Thomson Reuters 2025.
The Star
02-06-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Mexico's judicial election turnout likely around 13%, electoral authority says
People vote during the judicial and magistrate elections in Mexico City, Mexico June 1, 2025. REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's INE electoral authority said on Monday that turnout for Sunday's judicial election was likely between 12.57% and 13.32%, adding that thousands of official across the country are working to "give certainty" to the votes citizens cast in the ballot. Counting is set to conclude on June 15, but INE officials estimated the turnout using a calculation based on several samples across the country. Mexicans had a day earlier voted in the country's first ever judicial elections to elect 2,600 judges and magistrates, including all Supreme Court justices, but pollsters had warned of poor turnout over boycott calls by the opposition and the complexity of voting for a large number of candidates. (Reporting by Raul Cortes and Diego Ore; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
PAHO warns against vaccine hesitancy in Latin America amid rise in measles, yellow fever
By Raul Cortes (Reuters) -The Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday it is seeking collaboration with neighboring countries to fight vaccine hesitancy for yellow fever and measles among populations in parts of the region this year. The organization's director, Jarbas Barbosa, made the announcement the same day U.S. researchers warned the country is at a critical juncture in measles' return, a quarter century after it was declared eliminated there, due to several outbreaks. "Measles is one of the most contagious illnesses in the world," Barbosa said. "Countries have faced difficulties maintaining the recommended 95% MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine coverage, leaving us susceptible to imported cases," he added. Health experts say 95% of the population must be inoculated to provide community protection for those unable to receive the vaccine, such as babies under 6 months old. PAHO has identified localized measles outbreaks in six an countries in the region, with 2,313 reported cases so far this year, a considerable increase from the 215 cases for the same period last year. Three deaths have been confirmed, and one more is under investigation. Since the start of 2025, the U.S. has registered a dozen outbreaks and at least 800 measles cases, including 624 infections and two deaths in Texas, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yellow fever cases have also risen this year on the continent with 189 cases in four countries and 74 deaths, according to PAHO. A week ago, the Colombian government declared a sanitary emergency given the increase in cases, with 74 confirmed infections and 34 deaths. "PAHO is working with countries to combat vaccine hesitancy, strengthen routine immunization programs, and broaden access to vaccines so we can face these cases," said Barbosa. Vaccine misinformation has fueled hesitancy in recent years, particularly in the United States, where false claims linking vaccines to autism gained traction. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long promoted such views, contrary to scientific evidence.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Yahoo
Mexico arrests alleged leader of cartel training center at Jalisco ranch
By Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican law enforcement arrested an alleged cartel recruiter tied to a ranch where clothing and human remains were found in the state of Jalisco, Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday. Harfuch accused the suspect, who he said goes by the alias of "Commandante Lastra," of leading recruitment for the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel at an alleged cartel killing site and training camp in Teuchitlan, a rural area about 40 miles (64 km) outside Jalisco's capital, Guadalajara. "He is linked to the recruitment of individuals for the criminal organization during the period from May 2024 to early March 2025," Garcia said. "He had a group of collaborators dedicated to the recruitment process." Garcia added the suspect primarily used social media to offer false job opportunities to would-be recruits. Local media has dubbed the site under investigation the "ranch of horror." Earlier this month, an activist search group for missing people found what they called an "extermination camp" littered with bone fragments, ashes, alleged makeshift crematoriums, along with hundreds of shoes, backpacks and other belongings. Mexico's top prosecutor has said it was too soon to determine whether the site was an "extermination center" but added that state authorities had bungled the initial investigation, which has now been turned over to federal investigators.
