*Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced that his government will supply electricity to Belize. In a press conference, President López Obrador said he had met with Belize’s Prime Minister John Briceño and agreed to help with the country’s electricity supply. “Even with this special situation due to the heat, we are going to comply with the agreement to help them so that they do not lack electricity… We are brotherly peoples, we are neighbours and we have to help each other,” said López Obrador. This is a reference to the period of extreme hot weather that Mexico is currently experiencing and that has placed a strain on the electrical grid, causing blackouts across the country between 7 and 9 May. Mexico’s national meteorological service (SMN) announced the start of the third heatwave of the year on 20 May, just a week after declaring the end of the previous heatwave on 13 May.
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