Associated Press
Mexico May Raffle Presidential Boeing 787 Dreamliner After unsuccessfully trying to sell its lavish presidential jet for over a year the government of Mexico has offered it to the Canadian Government and if that fails they will raffle the jet with tickets selling at 500 pesos ($25) each according to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who took office in December of 2018 and vowed never to use the Dreamliner and has flown commercial ever since. The minimum price is set at US$130 million (well under the US$218.7 million the jet cost in 2016). The first year of operating costs will be included in the deal.....
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1 February 2020
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Reuters
Mexican government preparing 'ambitious' criminal justice reform MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Faced with rampant drug violence and homicides at record highs, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government is preparing far-reaching reforms of Mexico’s justice system to combat insecurity and a culture of impunity, officials said on Monday. Mexican law enforcement agencies have suffered several spectacular security setbacks since Lopez Obrador came to power a year ago, and his government, which controls both chambers of Congress, is scrambling to address growing insecurity nationwide.... |
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Caribjournal.com
Belize Has Quietly Become a Caribbean Hotspot Long a well-kept secret for travelers in the know, Belize has quietly become a full-fledged Caribbean hotspot in recent years, buoyed by one of the region’s fastest rates of tourism growth. And now it’s borne out by the data — Belize just set a new all-time record for tourism arrivals to the destination, Caribbean Journal has learned. The buzzing destination on the Caribbean coast of Central America topped the half-million mark for stayover viistor arrivals for the first time last year. The Belize Tourism Board confirmed that the country welcomed 503,177 overnight visitors last year, a 2.8 percent increase compared to 2018..... |
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