By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Reform Bill Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, Feb. 21, pleaded with Congress to pass his electricity reform bill. “I hope next week the (electricity) reform I presented to Congress will be approved to help strengthen the (state-owned) Federal Electricity Commission (CFE),” he said. AMLO spoke about the electricity bill in two acts
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By KELIN DILLON Despite growing opposition and advice to the contrary from both national and international medical specialists, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to continue on as planned with his controversial National Vaccine Strategy, which now targets rural communities as the first priority for vaccination over Mexico’s urban epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak, like Mexico City.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite not having yet been approved by any international health organization or having had its Phase 3 clinical trials published or peer-reviewed by external sources, Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 10, approved emergency use of the controversial Chinese CanSino covid-19 vaccine. Produced by the Beijing-based CanSino Biologics, the still-experimental one-shot vaccine is alleged by China to have a
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) announced on Saturday, Feb. 6, that a further 9,837 vaccines against coronavirus had been applied in Mexico, bringing the nation to a total of 710,198 doses of vaccine applied in the country thus far. Of the doses applied, 71,300 of people have received the full two doses to cement their inoculation, meaning
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico has started the process of vaccinating its vulnerable elderly population against covid-19, with all Mexican inhabitants above the age of 60 theoretically available to receive the vaccine as of Tuesday, Feb. 2. The new phase began the same day that the esteemed international medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed analysis of trials of the Russian
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — who is currently working from his private residence inside the National Palace after he tested positive for the covid-19 virus over the weekend — said in a tweet Monday, Jan. 25, that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a telephone call earlier in the day and
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has whimsically changed the course of the country’s scheduled universal vaccination program, altering it as he sees fit in a wing-it-as-you-go strategy. The nation’s original vaccination schedule was set up in five concurrent stages, beginning with frontline health workers, followed by everyone over the age 60. The next two stages
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccines Politicized Ever since the Mexican government announcement on Friday, Jan. 15, that “the last batch” of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines — 219,375 vaccine units, to be exact, half the expected number of doses, would arrive in the country Tuesday, Jan. 19, the topic became a focus of a raging political debate. But at the root of that
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Sunday, Jan. 18, during a university inauguration in Guerrero, that Mexico would accept a lower number of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations so that poor countries could be given better access to the widely-successful coronavirus vaccine, as proposed by the United Nations. López Obrador had previously said that Mexico had a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The director of Mexico’s universal covid-19 vaccination program, Miriam Veras Godoy, announced her resignation from the government post Sunday, Jan. 17. Veras Godoy, who helped design the vaccination program, which prioritizes first health workers treating covid patients, followed by citizens ranked by their age brackets, previously served as the director general of the nation’s
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