By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Dec.12, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that mass distribution of the covid-19 vaccine among the general population will soon begin, starting with Mexico’s elderly population, once all health workers dealing with covid patients have been inoculated. All of the elderly in Mexico are expected
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ebrard and Sullivan Talk Migration A new era in Mexican-U.S. diplomatic relations began Wednesday, Jan. 6, with a video conference between Foreign Relations Secretary (SRE) Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón and President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security spokesman, Jake Sullivan. Both agreed that the most important issue in a new bilateral agenda is to collaborate in order to have a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Dec. 31, that all Mexicans over the age of 60 will have free access to the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March. In a message released over social media, in which he also stated that the country will regain more than 650,000 jobs lost
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) addressed concerns surrounding the nationwide distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in a video posted to social media on Sunday, Dec. 27. Political opponents of AMLO previously accused the Mexican president and his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), of monopolizing vaccine doses, and demanded that states and private citizens be
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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