By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who owns one of the companies that was instrumental in the construction of Mexico City’s ill-fated Metro Line 12, has agreed to pay for the entire rehabilitation of the part of the line that collapsed on May 3, killing 26 people, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, June
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s construction company Grupo Carso fell more than 3.14 billion pesos in value on Wednesday, June 16, following an investigative report from Norwegian firm DNV concluding that Mexico City’s deadly Line 12 metro collapse was caused by faulty construction. Constructional faults like poor welding and missing bolts all contributed to the tragic crash that
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By KELIN DILLON According to an investigative piece in the renowned international newspaper the New York Times (NYT), Mexico City’s tragic Line 12 metro accident in early May was largely the result of two Mexican public figures’ gross negligence in the construction and upkeep of the now-infamous route. The U.S. publication pointed to Marcelo Ebrard, the country’s current secretary of
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Steel King Tanked, Again Spanish police on Saturday, Nov. 8, arrested Mexican citizen Alonso Ancira Elizondo in the island resort of Palma de Mallorca. Ancira, head of the steel foundry Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), now faces extradition to Mexico. He was free on bond but the court, known as the National Audience of Spain, rejected
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccine Funds Assured The Mexican government wields, for starters, 20 billion pesos “we have saved because there is no more corruption nor luxuries” to vaccinate every Mexican, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) while on tour in Puebla over the weekend. At the same time, he called upon every Mexican to not be overconfident before
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Electoral Blood No sooner had Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) announced that the race for the midterm elections will officially start on Sept. 7, than the first missile was aimed directly at the second political force in the nation, the National Action Party (PAN). A vided allegedly showing Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo. the private secretary of Querétaro
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The London-based biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca signed an agreement with Mexico’s Carlos Slim Foundation on Wednesday, Aug. 12, to produce a covid-19 vaccine in both Mexico and Argentina to be distributed without economic profits throughout Latin America. The experimental coronavirus vaccine, labled AZD1222, which was licensed by AstraZeneca from the University of Oxford, is currently
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