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WEEKLY
Agencia de Noticias del Estado Mexicano
GLOBAL
COMMUNICATION
Nº.
IN THE NEWS
90
June 1st, 2016
Mexico in good financial
standing
Washington.- The International Monetary Fund
approved a new two-year $88 billion Flexible Credit
Line for Mexico. The previous line was for $67 billion.
The Fund pointed out that the Mexican authorities
showed their intention to make the accord a
preventive measure in view of recent external
upsets.
The Finance ministry and the Bank of Mexico said
that the increase in the credit line shows confidence
in the country amid a volatile international economic
environment.
Measure of stability
Blue riband for
beaches
Commitment to
Americas renewed
Mexico City.- Six Mexican beaches
received the “Blue Flag” quality
hallmark,
the Tourism
ministry
announced.
Mexico City.- President Enrique Peña
Nieto
confirmed
Mexico’s
commitment to work in favor of
sustainable development, eradicate
poverty, achieve gender equality and
access to health services. Peña Nieo
was speaking at a meeting of Eclac,
the UN Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean.
The six, and 20 more that have
already been rated as Blue Flag
beaches,
have
reached
high
standards
of
water
quality,
environmental
management
and
education, safety, services and
installations.
The latest Blue Flag beaches are El
Coromuel in Southern Baja California,
Icacos II and El Revolcadero II on the
Pacific Coast state of Guerrero,
Laguna De Santa María Del Oro in
Nayarit state, also on the Pacific,
Playa Coral in Quintana Roo on the
Caribbean, and Playa Oro in the
west-central state of Jalisco.
Meanwhile, last week the new US
ambassador, Roberta Jacobson,
arrived in Mexico with the aim of
developing an excellent dialogue with
Mexico.
“There’s a lot to do together,”
Jacobson said on her arrival.
COMING SOON
Peña Nieto to visit Argentina
Buenos Aires.- President Enrique Peña Nieto will
visit Argentina on July 29 to meet with his
counterpart, Mauricio Macri, the Foreign ministry
announced.
The two presidents will have talks on education,
tourism, the arts and investment protection.
The announcement coincided with the visit to
Mexico by Susana Malcorra, the Argentine foreign
minister, who was visiting her counterpart, Claudia
Ruiz Massieu.
Seoul welcomes Frida and
Diego
Companies in US creative
forum
Seoul.- Seoul Arts Center’s Hangaram Design
Museum in the South Korean capital is presenting
from May 28 tok August 29 an exhibition of the works
of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Washington.- Three Mexican start-ups are among
12 Latin American and Caribbean trail-blazers in the
creative industries chosen to take part in the
Demand Solutions 2016 of the Inter-American
Development Bank.
The show, entitled "Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera"
includes 30 oil paintings and sketches from Rivera’s
collection, 26 canvases by Kahlo, and 140
photographs of the life of both artists.
The event is to be held on October 4. It will
challenge creative minds to propose solutions for
several challenges facing society.
The projects that represent Mexico will be “Con
Equis de Niños”, “Ecosistema contenidos digitales
para lenguas originarias de América” and “Mi
Cartelera MX”.
GLOBAL MEXICO
Quetzalcóatl stars in the Vatican
Textile show hailed in Canada
Vatican City.- A statue of the plumed serpent Aztec
god Quetzalcóatl has become one of the principal
attractions of the Vatican Museums.
Toronto.- “¡Viva México! Clothing and Culture”, a
show of 200 pieces of Mexican textiles, was staged
for a year by Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum of
Toronto where it was warmly received by visitors.
Nicolás Mapelli, who is in charge of the museums of
art and original creations of several cultures all over
the world, explained that their prominent place in the
museums “values these great cultures and
civilizations of the past that have a message to
convey the understanding of the present.”
The Quetzalcóatl statue was carved in wood at
some point between the years 1325 and 1521. It
arrived at the Vatican from the Borgia Museum, the
private collection of Cardinal Stefano Borgia
(1731-1804).
“It was a privilege to have shown more than three
centuries of history on Mexican textiles and the way
in which they continue to be used at the present,”
said Sascha Priewe, director of the three Discovery
Centers of the Ontario Museum.
The exhibition included shawls, blouses, ponchos
and other garments that were manufactured from the
18th to the 21st century.
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Social projects on show at
Venice Bienale
Venice.- Mexico’s ambassador to Italy, Juan José
Abud, inaugurated the Mexican pavilion at the
Venice Bienale with a project on social architecture.
The pavilion, described as “Display and ensembles
of Mexico,” includes 31 projects that emerged from
an open invitation to get to know what is available in
terms of social and participative architecture
throughout the country, said curator Pablo Landa.
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