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Juarez's companies deny jobs to obese, diabetic and hypertensive people

JUAREZ – Juarez's maquiladora companies are in the process of restructuring their workforce, but only hire people who do not have comorbidities to the COVID-19 pandemic; which means that they are not obese, hypertensive or diabetic, reported...

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Texas' bars and restaurants struggle to stay open

TEXAS – Hundreds of Texas bars and restaurants are scrambling to change how they operate, maneuvering through loopholes that will allow them to reopen after being closed by Gov Greg Abbott’s latest shutdown targeting bars Abbott has shut...

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Bars and nightclubs in Tijuana demand permission to reopen

TIJUANA – Baja California officials claim it will be extremely difficult to allow bars and nightclubs in the city to reopen in the near future In recent days many bar owners have pushed to get their businesses open again “Until all these...

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Rural California border crossing expands pedestrian capacity

TECATE – Twice as many pedestrians will be able to cross into the US at the newly-expanded Tecate Port of Entry in a remote area of Southern California The General Services Administration said the $664,000 project is complete and will...

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Baja Businesses File for Protection Against Health Tax

BAJA CALIFORNIA – More than 10,000 businesses across all sectors in Baja California signed an application for a federal injunction, known as an amparo, hoping to protect themselves from a new proposed health tax and law, according to...

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Juarez registered an annual inflation of 4.07%

JUAREZ – Pushed by rising food and electricity prices, Ciudad Juárez recorded an annual inflation of 407% during July, the highest level in the last 24 months According to the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) published by the National...

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Over-regulation will further prolong the economic crisis

JUAREZ – Excessive regulation of maquiladora companies, the only economic sector in Ciudad Juarez that is growing despite the pandemic, will further prolong the economic crisis resulting from COVID-19, said Isaac Leobardo Sánchez Juárez, an...

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Outsourcing has increased to 37.21% in Nuevo Leon

NUEVO LEON – According to the Economic Census of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), outsourcing has increased in Nuevo Leon; between 2014 and 2019 its share of employment grew from 206% to 22%, and by 2019 there...

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Monterrey's food inflation boosted

MONTERREY – Despite the fact that inflation in Monterrey in July compared to June was of 099%, one of the highest at national level, in annual terms it was of 283%, occupying the 7th position as the lowest in the country The main segment that...

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Tamaulipas to create Meals-on-Wheels application

TAMAULIPAS – Tamaulipas will create an Uber Eats style home service platform to support the restaurant industry, said Jesús Villarreal Cantú, Tamaulipas' undersecretary of Economic Development This service will be available in 5 regions of...

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