Nearshoring picked up steam when the covid-19 pandemic exposed the considerable risks inherent in the supply chains for numerous critically important products and intermediate goods for which there was often a single supplier
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Politicians are typically remembered for the decisions they make or the situations they face, successfully or otherwise, in the final stretches of their terms
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who served as the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1994, was granted Spanish nationality in May of this year, after proving Sephardic Jewish ancestry, the Spanish daily newspaper El País reported on Sunday, Oct. 30. In what some see as a hedge against possible political persecution and extradition
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As inflation in Mexico continues to surge month-after-month, hitting 7.45 percent in March, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 26, the framework of his plan to reduce price increases by forming a pact with private-sector producers and distributors. In his proposed plan to control the cost of eggs, milk, oil,
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By JESSICA GUERRERO The leftist faction is relatively new in modern Mexican politics. It was not until after almost 70 years of hegemony of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 20th century, that the left began to take shape as the first citizen counterweights appeared. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) saw the light of day in
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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