By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Teotihuacán, the center of Mexico’s most famous pre-Hispanic pyramids, could lose its status as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to the president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (Icomos). Current construction work being conducted in the Teotihuacán archaeological zone with heavy machinery for the new Santa Lucía airport — one of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Eight years after 43 teaching students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa university campus in the Guerrero town of Iguala after being detained by police for rioting, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 24, that the U.S. government will be helping his administration to further investigate the still-unresolved case. Speaking during his daily
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, May 20, warned the Organization of American States (OAS) against trying to interfere in Mexico’s upcoming midterm elections. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, AMLO said that any attempt by the OAS to “interfere” in Mexico’s electoral process will be seen as “an aggression against
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Thursday, May 20, the creation of a national post-secondary level education program in sports training. “We are going to create a career, a profession, at the upper secondary level, for the training of sports technicians,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference. “Nationwide, there will be
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Private investment in Mexico sank 19.89 percent in 2020, its biggest decline in 25 years. The decrease in fresh investment, measured as the Gross Formation of Private Fixed Capital (GFCF), represents the deepest slide since the 1995 financial crisis, when investment dropped by 38.51 percent, according to seasonally adjusted figures from the National Institute
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There’s no debating the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) knows which side of his bread is buttered on (and which side to keep on buttering). As his popularity continues to wane due to his disastrous mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic, his head-strong insistence on pouring seemingly endless funds into a moribund state-run energy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum offered the relatives of the 26 fatal victims of the May 3 Line 12 Metro crash a financial compensation of just 650,000 pesos (about $32,500) each, the families filed a joint action law suit against the city late Friday, May 7. In an interview with El Financiero newspaper,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexico still ranks in fourth place in the number of covid-19 deaths (after the United States, India and Brazil), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration has committed far more financial resources to his pet Tren Maya tourist train than to public health efforts to curb the pandemic, according to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s inflation rate soared to 6.1 percent in April, its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures released on Friday, May 7, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The federal government’s inflation rate is based on the prices of the country’s basic food basket, food and household products that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The problems with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial Santa Lucía Airport project just keep adding up. In addition to work delays and over-expenditures, a high rate of workplace accidents and countless lawsuits over its prioritization and the cancelation of the previous private-sector New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) — not to mention the
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