geeser Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 According to my calendar this coming Saturday is a paid day off for Mexican workers. It is Inauguration Day. If anyone knows differently please advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Can't trust a calendar as mine does not show any such thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bournemouth Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Inauguration Day is a Federal holiday so I am assuming (always risky) that it is a paid holiday for all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Yup. It's a statutory holiday every six years. https://www.officeholidays.com/countries/mexico/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dixonge Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 On 11/26/2018 at 12:16 PM, Ferret said: Yup. It's a statutory holiday every six years. https://www.officeholidays.com/countries/mexico/index.php According to that link, any statutory holiday that falls on Saturday is celebrated on Friday. So today's not really a holiday, even though it is the day Amlo is inaugurated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 I think this day is an exception ton the if on Saturday take Friday off. Because all banks and businesses were open Friday. Just guessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 Good question for which I do not know the answer. Pete makes a good point. And, what's the point of celebrating the Inauguration before it's happened. Should be "on the day of" imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bournemouth Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 Pete - are you sure about banks being open yesterday? HSBC was closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 So was MailBoxes closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
More Liana Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 Like Christmas and New Year's Day, the every-six-years presidential inauguration on December 1 is a paid holiday that does not move date to create a puente (long weekend). TODAY is the inauguration, TODAY is the holiday. In case anyone is interested, the program of events for today's inauguration will be markedly different from those of years and years past. Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will have a celebration in Mexico City's Zócalo that will consist in its majority of indigenous dance troops, the passing of the baton from indigenous leaders to the new president to indicate their trust in and support of him (as well as his trust in and support of them), no military display hoo-ha, and no triumphal entrance into Los Pinos. An inauguration of this type has not been seen since that of President Lázaro Cárdenas, in 1934. Below is my personal favorite meme from AMLO's candidacy, designed to look like a CDMX Metro stop sign: Next stop....HOPE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 2 hours ago, bournemouth said: Pete - are you sure about banks being open yesterday? HSBC was closed. I just know that Actinver was open, and others have posted that some other banks were open as well. As I have said before, AN expert about this subject, I AM NOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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