Author: Stanley Bowers

The estimates of the initiative go a little further, since they foresee that at the end of the year there will be an accumulated $30 billion in foreign exchangewhich would be 24% higher than what was perceived before the pandemic. Part of these forecasts are fueled by the progress that has been made both in attracting international tourists, and in the growth in foreign exchange income from them. On the one hand, the recovery of the international segment –the most affected by the pandemic, which, despite this, recovered quickly due to the permanent opening of borders that the country had–…

On September 16, protesters looted a UN Food Program (WFP) warehouse. The WFP warehouse located in Gonaïves, the country’s third-largest city, containing 1,400 tons of food, was attacked by protesters on Thursday, while demonstrations of anger were seen on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and in other cities. provincial. The WFP condemned in a statement the attack on its office and the looting of its warehouse, and stressed that the food was destined for school feeding programs and the most vulnerable families and children in Haiti, a country absorbed by the crisis. “It is simply unacceptable. The looted food…

The documents also give some examples of what has given rise to some of the observations, such as the one related to the lack of a system to ensure that the airworthiness requirements for the authorizations and special approvals of the holders of air operator certificates are met. “For example, AFAC was unable to provide evidence regarding the numerous ground and air disruptions experienced by Aeromexico during 2021”, states the report. “Also, engine condition monitoring (ECM) is not being monitored in operator reliability programs,” he added. The same Agency recognizes the lack of a system to identify the deviations of…

“What it implies is that there are more and more loads [consumidores] that they are migrating to the wholesale electricity market, that they are leaving the self-supply scheme”, explains Bernardo Cortés, a lawyer specializing in the sector. Just in a session at the end of September, the regulator approved the exclusion of 13 load centers and last July authorized 19. During past years, the regulator also brought these matters to the plenary, but in a smaller number, with five authorizations in 2020 and five in 2021. “The CRE only authorizes the process, but the request comes fully from consumers,” says…

In most states, its medicinal use is authorized in different degrees, from oils that contain a low level of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive principle of cannabis) to pure marijuana. Only a handful of ultraconservative and rural states, such as Idaho, Wyoming or Nebraska, remain uncompromising. But interestingly, marijuana is still illegal at the federal level. Biden’s announcement on Thursday symbolizes a first step toward his reclassification. The president instructed Health Secretary Xavier Becerra and Attorney General Merrick Garland to “expeditiously review how marijuana is classified under federal law.” Currently, federal law classifies marijuana alongside much more dangerous narcotics, such as…

In its report, the firm highlights that among the most popular among Mexicans are bitcoin, with a 20% market share (the world average is 37%); followed by ethereum, with 14%; cardano, with 14%; the dogecoin, in 12% and the other 54% are distributed among more than 10,000 varieties of cryptocurrencies that exist in the market. In Mexico, the crypto ownership rate is 13% of the total population, which means that it is 200 basis points lower than the world average, which is 15%. India leads the list with 29%, while Germany is in last place with 6%. One of the…

Salvador Espinosa, general director of Prosa, agreed with this perspective and said in an interview with Expansión that growth in the use of cards of up to double digits is expected. “Last year we registered 6,500 million transactions throughout the year, now we are going for at least 8,000 million transactions only with a physical card,” he commented. In the first three quarters of the year, 4,372 million credit and debit card operations have been made, 22.2% more than in the same period of 2021, according to data from the Bank of Mexico (Banxico). The last months of the year…

Ransomware, an old acquaintance that will continue to affect As corporate networks increase their use of the cloud, cyberattackers are taking the opportunity to have a greater impact on their ransomware attacks, Felman says. Fortinet figures indicate that ransomware increased by 1,070% between July 2020 and July 2021. In addition, the severity of the attacks is increasing, since it generated close to 20,000 million dollars in damage in 2021 and it is expected that in 2031 that figure will exceed 265,000 million dollars. Felman points out that today, attackers are more motivated because they are in the best time for…

The request for the death penalty had to be unanimous and at least one or more of the 12 jurors found that it was not warranted due to mitigating circumstances. During the verdict reading, Cruz, dressed in a striped sweater and oversized glasses, stared blankly toward the defense table as several relatives of the victims in the public area shook their heads in disbelief. Cruz pleaded guilty in 2021 to the Valentine’s Day murders four years ago, and prosecutors argued during a three-month trial that the appropriate sentence was the death penalty. Melisa McNeill, her attorney, had urged jurors to…