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International Legal Developments Year in Review: 2023

WilmerHale on 9/12/2024

Notable Supreme Court Decisions - In 2023, the Mexican Supreme Court addressed several high-profile decisions asserting the limits between public branches and entities to preserve the constitutional order and to protect...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - March 2022

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/3/2022

Half of Mexico’s thirty-two states have been cleared by the federal government to fully reopen for business and social activities, a remarkable change from early February, when only four states were given the green light...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - February 2022

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/17/2022

Nearly all of Mexico’s central and northern states have been directed by the federal government to limit the number of people on-site for business and social activities to half their normal capacity in order to prevent the...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - January 2022 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/9/2022

As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads throughout Mexico, the federal government is directing more states to ramp up efforts to contain the virus, including directing Aguascalientes to allow only essential activities -...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - January 2022 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/20/2022

The COVID-19 Omicron variant is causing an increase in the rate of infection throughout Mexico (as elsewhere globally), resulting in the federal government’s decision to direct three of Mexico’s thirty-two states to take...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - January 2022

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/3/2022

The pandemic appears for the time being to be held in check in Mexico, as the majority of the adult population has been fully vaccinated. Social and business activities are open without restriction in 28 of the nation’s 32...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - December 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/30/2021

The COVID-19 Omicron variant has resulted in a slight increase in the rate of infection in Mexico, but the federal government has deemed all of the nation’s 32 states safe to remain open for business, although with cautions...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - December 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/9/2021

Five of Mexico’s 32 states - all in the north of the country - are currently operating in yellow status, with all work activities permitted and precautionary measures in place to prevent infection among high-risk individuals,...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - November 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/11/2021

Mexico’s federal government has fully relaxed restrictions on social and business activities in all but 3 of the nation’s 32 states - the most states operating at green traffic light status since the government instituted its...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - October 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/12/2021

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico has ebbed significantly in the last few weeks - enough for the federal government to lift all restrictions on social and business activities in nine states. Under Mexico’s...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - September 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/17/2021

The COVID-19 traffic light scenario in the states of Mexico still looks complicated, with only Chiapas and Chihuahua among the nation’s states operating without restrictions on social and business activities. Therefore, the...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - August 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/1/2021

About 63 percent of Mexico’s adult population has received a vaccination against COVID-19, but the pandemic situation has still worsened considerably, with only one of the nation’s 32 states having no restrictions on social...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - July 2021 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/4/2021

As Mexico enters the third wave of the pandemic amid a global resurgence of COVID-19, the federal government of Mexico has revised the criteria it uses to update its traffic light monitoring system to alert residents to the...more

COVID-19 en México: Nuevos Criterios del Semáforo Epidemiológico

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/28/2021

El día de hoy, se publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación, el acuerdo por el que se da a conocer el medio de difusión de la nueva metodología del semáforo por regiones en México para evaluar el riesgo epidemiológico que...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - July 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/23/2021

During the pandemic, Mexico’s federal government has used a four-tiered biweekly traffic light monitoring system to alert residents to the epidemiological risks of COVID-19 and provide guidance on restrictions on certain...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - July 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/9/2021

In June 2020, the government of Mexico instituted a four-tiered traffic light epidemiological monitoring system to track the COVID-19 pandemic and align COVID-19-related mandates and restrictions with the health risks present...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - June 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/28/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to abate in Mexico, and as conditions have improved, the federal government has gradually eased COVID-19–related restrictions and lifted them entirely in 19 of the nation’s 32 states in...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - June 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/10/2021

Mexico’s federal government has lifted all restrictions on business and social activities used to contain the spread of COVID-19 in 19 of Mexico’s 32 states - the highest number of states without such restrictions since the...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - May 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/28/2021

Mexico’s federal government is continuing to reopen more of the country as the pandemic appears to be waning, with half of the 32 states designated in green traffic light status - the status under which all business and...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - April 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/30/2021

After weeks of improving pandemic conditions in Mexico - since March 2021, none of Mexico’s 32 states has been classified in red status, the strictest tier of the federal government’s four-tiered COVID-19 traffic light...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - April 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/16/2021

The degree of pandemic risk in Mexico has been steadily improving nationwide, and since March 1, 2021, none of the 32 states has been required to halt all nonessential activities under the strictest tier - called the “red...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - March 2021 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/5/2021

Mexico’s federal government continues to relax restrictions on business and social activities in accordance with the four-tiered national traffic light monitoring system as COVID-19 pandemic conditions continue to improve in...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - March 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/19/2021

Pandemic conditions in Mexico are continuing to improve, prompting the federal government and local governments to ease restrictions on business and social activities in accordance with the four-tiered traffic light...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - March 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/9/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico appears to be abating after spiking in January and February 2021. The notable improvement in epidemiological conditions has prompted the federal government and local governments to gradually...more

Mexico’s COVID-19 Traffic Light Monitoring System - February 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/19/2021

Mexico updates the monitoring system every two weeks, and the federal government uses it to provide guidance to the states on hygiene measures and work and mobility restrictions in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus...more

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