By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A caravan of an estimated 4,000 Haitian, Central American and South American migrants pushed past Mexican National Guard (GN) troops in the southern border city of Tapachula on Saturday, Oct. 23, heading for Mexico City. Some of the caravan organizers said that in the Mexican capital, they intended to demand the right of free
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Birthday, Carlos Slim Just as Mexico’s and Latin America’s wealthiest man, Carlos Slim, was gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) delivered a special gift that surely the tycoon did not appreciate: a fine for nearly 1.39 billion pesos. The fine applied directly to mismanagement of accounting
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A caravan of more than 2,000 undocumented Central American migrants – mostly from Honduras – entered Mexico from Guatemala in the early morning hours of Friday, Jan. 18. The caravan crossed into Mexico through the Rodolfo Robles Valverde Bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, with about half the members refusing to comply with standard passport
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While still haggling with Congress to avoid a government shutdown over his demand for additional monies to fund fa border wall or other border security measures, U.S. President Donald J. Trump scored at least one political victory on Thursday, Dec. 20, when Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced that migrants seeking asylum in the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just hours after having been sworn in as Mexico’s 58th president on Saturday, Dec. 1, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) met with his counterparts from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (all of whom attended his inauguration ceremony) to agree on a regional development plan intended to help stem the flow the migrants from those
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly six hours after having been closed to all vehicle and foot traffic, the San Ysidro border crossing between Tijuana, Baja California, and San Diego, California, was reopened in the late afternoon on Sunday, Nov. 25. The border was closed by U.S. Customs authorities after a mob of roughly 500 mostly Central American migrants
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