By KELIN DILLON Just three and a half years into his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his administration are on track to have the most violent presidency in Mexico’s recent history, already surpassing that of former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as of May’s homicide figures, and he is anticipated to surpass that of his immediate
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced on Monday, June 20, vacant positions to be assigned in its headquarters in Mexico City, with salaries that pay up to 140,000 pesos a month. The SEP has opened up positions for general director of agricultural technological education and marine sciences, and general director of higher secondary education in agricultural technology and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Raúl Beyruti Sánchez is Mexico’s quintessential self-made man. His first job was that of a janitor in a printing factory in the coastal state of Veracruz, where, at the tender age of 15, he worked to pay for his high school studies and to help out with expenses at home. Three years later, he made the monumental
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