PULSE NEWS MEXICO Back in the United States, Elon Musk may be distracted by his recent and controversial takeover of Twitter, but here in Mexico, he is moving full speed ahead with plans to open a giant Tesla assembly plant in the northern state of Nuevo León. Musk’s U.S-based electric car manufacturer Tesla is expected to announce in the coming
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Call me crazy, but I love driving in Mexico. Whenever the topic comes up, I tell people that, and the usual response is, “Are you a glutton for punishment?” or some more colorfully worded reaction. I have never been to India. Driving in India is supposedly truly intense. Rome was crazy and I survived. Nairobi
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago, no government official in Mexico, be it fe3deral, state or municipal, nor member of any autonomous bodies or the country’s federal judicial powers, is allowed to have a salary higher than — or even equal to — that of the president. However, since a
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By KELIN DILLON In a move on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance dedicated 154.7 million pesos in budget to the General Directorate of Legal Consulting for International Trade of the Secretariat of the Economy, to be used during 2022 to defend the country against potential litigation from outside countries. The International Trade Legal Consultancy likewise provides advice and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Saturday, Oct. 16, that his government will begin legalizing undocumented vehicles (mostly, imported from the United States without appropriate permissions) in the country’s northern border states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Baja California Sur. Each car owner will be required to
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XINHUA A global shortage of a semiconductor chips that has plagued automakers and put the brakes on North American vehicle rollouts since late 2020, could end by mid-year, but will still cause a drop in automotive production, the president of Mexico’s National Auto Parts Industry (INA) Oscar Albin said Monday, March 8. During a virtual press conference, Albin said the
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XINHUA New vehicles sales in Mexico rose 5.75 percent in August compared to the previous month, climbing for the fourth consecutive month amid the covid-19 pandemic, official figures showed Wednesday, Sept. 2. Sales reached 77,092 units in August, compared to 72,897 in July, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said. Vehicle sales plunged to 34,903 units in April,
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