Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he is interested in bolstering economic and trade ties with Argentine; Alberto Fernández, Argentina’s president-elect Alberto Fernández used his first foreign trip since winning office last month to proclaim a new era of leftist cooperation

Almost three years after the first case of Zika was detected in Mexico, the Health Ministry has reported 51 children who were born with a congenital syndrome associated to the virus; in 43 cases the predominant condition is microcephaly, but many children are not quantified because their mothers were not early diagnosed

Marcelo Ebrard, head of Mexican Foreign Affairs, had a meeting with 22 Ibero-American ambassadors and diplomatic representatives to propose the creation of a collective strategy to protect Hispanic communities in the U.S.