THE WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP WAS INAUGURATED ON APRIL 7TH IN BUDAPEST WITH THE MEXICAN SKATING GROUP, MERGING EDGE, ON BOARD

The Mexican national team of synchronized ice-skating, Merging Edge travelled this week to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to take part in the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships 2016. On Thursday, April 7th, 2016 at 19:30 pm. the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships 2016 was inaugurated in the SYMA Sport and Events Centre in Budapest.

The Ambassador of Mexico in Hungary, Isabel Téllez accompanied by her husband and members of her diplomatic corps attended the inauguration where as part of the show, the ‘Draw & Show’ featured the best Hungarian skaters (including Hungarian Short Track Speed skaters with great victories under their belt this season, U-18 national ice hockey team members and others) performing a program designed specifically for this occasion. The Biebers put on an exclusive live concert afterwards. The Draw of the Championship took place at 20:00 o’clock pm on the same night.

The competition is featuring 26 teams from 21 International Skating Union (ISU) Members.

The Mexican team made up of 18 female and 1 male skaters is training in the Ice Complex Club under the orders of Michele Cantú, Ana Cecilia Cantú, Erin Donovan and Donna Mitchel trainers. The Merging Edge will realize its short program on Friday, April 8th, 2016 at 18:00 pm and their free program on Saturday, April 9th, 2016 at 15:00 pm.

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Tickets are available at the following website.

If you would like to see the photos of the event please click here.

 

THE HUNGARIAN TROUP “COINCIDANCE” EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS OF IRISH DANCING WILL GO ON TOUR IN MEXICO ON MARCH 2016

The troupe comprising of competition level dancers renowned throughout Europe, featuring two European Champions of Irish dancing will go on tour in Mexico on March 2016 offering evening entertainment of high artistic quality. Coincidance was born by a unique blend of authentic Irish step and modern dance. The Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelve Dancing Princesses and The Irish Impulse are extended dance productions that are staged in big theatres, cultural centers and local festivals.

The audience’s enthusiasm and interest on their last production – The Midsummer Night’s Dream – motivated the creators of the show to turn to a fairy tale from the brothers Grimm and create The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces as their next production. This dance production is a perfect family activity, a magical theatre experience divided in two acts with virtuous dancers and Spanish narration. What other fairy tale would suit the European champions of Irish dancing better than this exciting story about the enchanted princesses whose dancing shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. Their kind father the king has no idea that his daughters are under the spell of a dark prince...

 

Date

City

Place

Time

March 3rd 2016

Morelia

Theatre Ocampo

20:00 o’clock

March 4th 2016

Mexico City

Cultural  Centre Theatre1

20:30 o’clock

March 5th 2016

Mexico City

Cultural  Centre Theatre1

13:00 & 17:00 o’clock

March 6th 2016

Mexico City

Cultural  Centre Theatre1

13:00 & 17:00 o’clock

March 8th 2016

Monterrey

San Pedro Theatre

20:30 o’clock

March 9th 2016

Nuevo Laredo

Principal Laredo Theatre

18:00 & 20:00 o’clock

March 10th 2016

Ciudad Victoria

Amalia Theatre

19:00 o’clock

March 11th 2016

Tampico

Metropolitan Theatre

19:00 o’clock

March 12th 2016

Matehuala

City Theatre

20:00 o’clock

March 13th 2016

Guadalajara

Diana Theatre

18:00 o’clock

March 14th 2016

Puerto Vallarta

Vallarta Theatre

20:30 o’clock

March 16th 2016

Manzanillo

Municipal Auditorium

20:00 o’clock

March 18th 2016

Mazatlán

Angela Peralta Theatre

20:30 o’clock

March 19th 2016

Culiacán

Villavicencio Theatre

20:30 o’clock

March 21th 2016

Durango

Victoria Theatre

20:00 o’clock

March 22th 2016

Zacatecas

Velarde Theatre Festival

20:00 o’clock

March 23th 2016

Tepatitlán

Municipal Auditorium

20:00 o’clock

 

Fecha

Ciudad

Lugar

Hora

3 de marzo de 2016

Morelia

Teatro Ocampo

20:00 hrs.

4 de marzo de 2016

Ciudad de México

Centro Cultural Teatro1

20:30 hrs.

5 de marzo de 2016

Ciudad de México

Centro Cultural Teatro1

13:00 & 17:00 hrs.

6 de marzo de 2016

Ciudad de México

Centro Cultural Teatro1

13:00 & 17:00 hrs.

8 de marzo de 2016

Monterrey

Teatro San Pedro

20:30 hrs.

9 de marzo de 2016

Nuevo Laredo

Teatro Principal Laredo

18:00 & 20:00hrs.

10 de marzo de 2016

Ciudad Victoria

Teatro Amalia

19:00 hrs.

11 de marzo de 2016

Tampico

Teatro Metropolitano

19:00 hrs.

12 de marzo de 2016

Matehuala

Teatro de la Ciudad

20:00 hrs.

13 de marzo de 2016

Guadalajara

Teatro Diana

18:00 hrs.

14 de marzo de 2016

Puerto Vallarta

Teatro Vallarta

20:30 hrs.

16 de marzo de 2016

Manzanillo

Auditorio Municipal

20:00 hrs.

18 de marzo de 2016

Mazatlán

Teatro Angela Peralta

20:30 hrs.

19 de marzo de 2016

Culiacán

Teatro Villavicencio

20:30 hrs.

21 de marzo de 2016

Durango

Teatro Victoria

20:00 hrs.

22 de marzo de 2016

Zacatecas

Festival, Teatro Velarde

20:00 hrs.

23 de marzo de 2016

Tepatitlán

Auditorio Municipal

20:00 hrs.

THE 6TH GREEN SOLUTIONS FORUM WILL BE HELD IN DURANGO BETWEEN THE 15TH AND 16TH OF DECEMBER IN DURANGO

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs in coordination with ProMéxico and the Secretary of Economy will organize the 6th edition of the Green Solutions Forum in 2015 that will take place between the 15th and 16th of december in the Cultural and Bicentennial Convention Center of Durango, Dgo.

Since 2010, ProMéxico has been organizing Green Solutions, a forum which is intended to promote green investments in Mexico through the organization of business meetings and a space for exhibition and dialogue about public politics in the field of green investment promotion, just like investigation and development of environmental technologies.

The main topic of Green Solutions 2015 will be “Mexico, economy and sustainable industry” with five cross-cutting themes: agriculture, livestock and fishing; forestry; mining and petroleum industry; renewable energy; and sustainable manufacturing.

 

If you want to read the program of Green Solutions 2015 in Spanish please click here. If you want to read that in English please click here.

 

Instructions for participation as investors and purchasers interested in requesting a travel grant

 

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MEXICO: THE NEW WINERIES ARE SUCCESSFUL TOO

In the winter of 2015 the Bor & Párlat quarterly wine and gastronomy magazine published an analysis of 4 pages written by Dr. Jozsef Kosárka – retired ambassador of Hungary – about the Mexican wine industry.

The article revises the history of the Mexican wineries from the beginning of the wine consumption until nowadays. However the 90% of the alcohol consumption comes from the acquisition of beer in Mexico, tequila is perhaps one of the first associations that foreigners have when they think of Mexico. The total quantity of wine in the market is growing every year and due to wine associations it can reach 925 thousand hectoliter a year.

The author highlights Baja California, Ojos Negros, Parras/Coahuila and Ezequiel Montes/Querétaro as the best wine-producing regions of Mexico where owing to the growing popularity of wines encouraged the internal mobility and increased the number of vineyards in Mexico.

According to Dr. Jozsef Kosárka’s assumption, the recent production of the Mexican wineries reaches 200 thousand hectoliters a year, while the quantity of imported wine is approximately 550 thousand hectoliters every year. He outlines that compared to the total population of the country this amount cannot be considered high, but if we have a look at the number of wine consumers (approx. 3 million people) in Mexico, it is relatively significant.

In spite of putting the beginning of the wine consumption history in Mexico to 1593, he emphasizes that the true progress of the wine industry was brought about around the millennium, since the real development started in the middle of the nineties due to the success of the Mexican wineries.

Thanks to its high-quality wines Dr. Kosárka underscores the winery of Monte Xanic and Durand Viticultura, whose wines were renowned by the famous French wine guide, the Gilbert & Gaillard. The author mentions the L.A. Cetto – the winery with the largest volume of production in Mexico – that in addition to producing 90,000 hectoliters of a wide variety of wine (32 tipes) every year, exports its products to 17 countries with 14 European ones among others, and won almost 400 awards in prestigious international wine competitions.

In conclusion, Dr. József Kosárka calls the attention to the Festival of Mexican Wine (Festival del Vino Mexicano - FEVINO) that was held the first weekend of November, 2015 in Mexico City and the last day of the same month in Guadalajara. He notes that in the last years several wineries from less-known wine-producing regions of Mexico participated in this event and even if in respect of the quantity of their production they are not that competitive, regarding the quality the industry has to count on them.

MEXICO HOSTS THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE ARMS TRADE TREATY IN CANCÚN BETEWWN THE 24TH AND 27TH OF AUGUST

As a demonstration of the Mexican government’s commitment to international peace and security, our country will host the first Conference of States Parties (1CSP) of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) from August 24-27 in Cancun, Quintana Roo. The conference will be attended by foreign ministers, senior officials from around the world, international organizations, regional organizations, civil society organizations, industry and academia, and by the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Oscar Arias.

Foreign Secretary José Antonio Meade will chair the high-level segment of the conference. In addition to hosting the conference, Mexico has chaired the 1CSP preparatory process over the last year and acts as Interim Secretariat of the Treaty.

At present, the arms trade is regulated by an international legal framework thanks to the adoption of the ATT by the UN General Assembly on April 2, 2013 and its entry into force on December 24. During the 1CSP, the States parties will be responsible for implementing the treaty by constructing an institutional and procedural architecture.

Adoption of the ATT is a historic achievement. It is the first legally-binding international instrument that establishes common rules to regulate the transfer of conventional weapons, in order to promote responsible trade and prevent their diversion to the illicit market.

The ATT entered into force when it was ratified by 50 countries. To date, 130 States have signed, of which only 72 have ratified it. Mexico was one of the first countries to sign and ratify the treaty, on June 3, 2013 and September 25, 2013, respectively.

By hosting the 1CSP, the Mexican government renews its commitment to international peace and security, demonstrates its confidence in the effectiveness of multilateral forums, particularly the UN, and makes a significant contribution as an actor with global responsibility.