The NFL admits its mistake for “not listening” to anti-racist protests from its players.

* The commissioner of the National League of American Football makes a gesture in the midst of a wave of demonstrations in the U.S. 

* In 2016, the player who protested kneeling when the hymn sounded, Kaepernick, ended up being expelled

In the midst of a wave of demonstrations in the United States, the top leader of the National Football League (NFL) has admitted that the organization was not sensitive to the players who denounced racism and police brutality in recent years, a still not explicit recognition of the grievance suffered particularly by Colin Kaepernick.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell posted a video this Friday night (Saturday morning in Spain) in response to a request from some of the most prominent players of the most popular sport in the US in which they asked their leaders to apologize for their lack of sensitivity to the protests anti-racist.

We admit that we were wrong not to listen to NFL players before and encourage all players to speak and protest peacefully.

Goodell says, "We, the National Football League, condemn racism and systematic oppression of African-Americans. We, the National Football League, admit that we were wrong not to listen to NFL players before and encourage all players to speak and protest peacefully. We, the National Football League, believe that the lives of African Americans matter."

In the short message on social media, translated by Efe, he promised dialogue with committed players and made a historic recognition: "Without African-American players there would be no National Football League, and professionals across the country are emblematic of centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of African-American players. coaches, amateurs and staff."

A day earlier, the open receiver of the Saints of New Orleans, Michael Thomas, one of the main organizers of the players' video, had urged the NFL to take sides. "It's been 10 days since George Floyd was brutally murdered (...) What if I was George Floyd?" , he said along with a dozen other football figures, including Drew.

Floyd, an African-American who in his youth also practiced the sport, died after a white police officer in Minnepolis crushed his neck for nearly nine minutes. The officer has been charged with murder in the second degree and since then the most important demonstrations in the United States against racism in recent decades have taken place.

On the streets, one of the most repeated gestures is to imitate what he did in 2016 by former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, when he decided to do so to protest police violence against minorities while the American anthem was playing before starting a match.

That rebellion, which was supported by many African American players in the league, created at the same time a great deal of controversy among the country's conservative sectors and ultimately caused Kaepernick to be expelled from the League, which banned and fined that gesture (which has now been replicated by athletes from other competitions around the world for solidarity with the cause).

In his statement, Commissioner Roger Goodell does not specifically cite the former San Francisco 49ers, who was once again despised by the NFL a few months ago when, following an agreement between the two that avoided the courts, he organized a training campus for the franchises to see Kaepernick's work and give him a chance. Nobody took the step forward.

On the other hand, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand (its trademark) have pledged $100 million over 10 years to national organizations "dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education".

"Black lives matter. This is not a controversial statement," read in a joint statement by Jordan and his company, a subsidiary of Nike.

Good dynamics in Mexican Peso by positive economic data.

Thanks to various factors, the national currency performed well on the exchange rate market against the dollar.

The Mexican peso closed Friday trading at 21.63 units per dollar and maintained its good dynamics thanks to several positive economic data known throughout the week.

This result of the Latin American currency is the best at the closure of the interbank market since March 11, when in the first days of the crisis caused by the coronavirus the exchange rate traded at 21.38 units per greenback.

Banco Base's economic-financial analysis coordinator Gabriela Siller emphasized the benefit of the Mexican currency in the face of the expectation that the Federal Reserve will cut its interest rate to negative rates, while the Bank of Mexico seems "more cautious" in cutting the price of money, which now keeps at 5.5 percent.

This generates the idea of a wide rate differential, which can continue to cause capital inflows into Mexico," the specialist said.

Before the outbreak of the pandemic, the Mexican currency was exchanged at around 18.5 units per greenback.

Another important factor in this assessment of peso is "widespread global optimism over the economic reopening of some countries and the rise in oil prices".

The exchange rate continues to have a downward trend," said the economist, who predicted that the Mexican currency could soon reach even the level of 21 pesos per dollar.

"It is expected that in the long term the exchange rate can stabilize at 20.6 pesos per dollar," Siller said, despite warning that there are risks associated with the weakened Mexican economy.

“Cristobal” strengthens tropical storm heading to the US.

"Cristobal" strengthens tropical storm heading to the US.

They warn that the phenomenon could cause rains from eastern Texas to Florida this weekend and early next week.

Cristóbal" is heading towards the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, already strengthened by tropical storm, while causing rainfall in southern Mexico and Central America.

The storm has sustained maximum winds of 65 kilometers per hour and moves north at 19 km/h, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported. It is expected to cross the Yucatan Peninsula on Friday and eventually head towards the Gulf of Mexico coast in the United States.

Shortly after noon, its center was located 60 kilometers south-southeast of Merida and about 960 kilometers south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Storm surveillance was broadcast on the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico from the intercoast of Louisiana City to the border between Alabama and Florida.

"Cristobal" landed Wednesday in Mexico as a tropical storm before weakening. It had formed this week in the Bay of Campeche with the remnants of tropical storm "Amanda", which had formed last week in the eastern Pacific and hit Central America.

Both storms have combined to cause up to 89 centimeters of precipitation in some areas over the past week. At least 30 deaths have been attributed to the two storms, and the floods and landslides they caused.

The trajectory forecast by the Hurricane Center shows that the storm will hit the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States on Monday morning, indicating that "Cristobal" could cause rains from eastern Texas to Florida this weekend and early next week.

In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards declared Thursday a state of emergency in preparation for the possible arrival of the storm.

Now is the time to make their plans, which should include traditional emergency items along with masks and hand sanitizer, as we continue to fight with the coronavirus pandemic," Edwards said in a statement.

Inauguration of Dos Bocas refinery will be in 2022: López Obrador.

Inauguration of Dos Bocas refinery will be in 2022: López Obrador.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that June 1, 2022 the Dos Bocas refinery will be inaugurated, to celebrate that on that date the four years of the "democratic triumph in Mexico".

In carrying out a review of the progress of the new refinery, one of the flagship projects of his administration, the President stressed that Mexico must be self-sufficient in gas, diesel and fuel, because it is the new policy of its administration.

Accompanied by Governor Adán Augusto López, Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle and Director of Pemex, Octavio Romero, the President said:

Because we do not want to depend on abroad when it comes to something so strategic and fundamental to national security. We have to be self-sufficient in gasoline, in diesel, in food. This does not mean breaking relations with any country."

"We will always maintain a policy of cooperation with all the peoples and governments of the world, in particular we will always maintain a relationship of respect and cooperation with the people and the government of the United States, but as all democratic and sovereign countries do, we must strengthen our independence economic".

In heavy rain, President López Obrador thanked the workers of the companies that build Dos Bocas, pointing out that neither the pandemic nor the bad weather stops them.

He said that despite the obstacles, resistance and conservative attitude, one can go forward to consummate the work of transformation in the country.

"I am optimistic, convinced that we will succeed, convinced that we will achieve the transformation of the country and make history. We are on the crest of the wave of transformation," he said.