PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico City’s 19-kilometer-long Metro Line 1, which runs from Observatorio to Pantitlán, will be closed as of Saturday, July 9, for at least a year, in order to allow for repairs and modernizations, the capital government announced Monday, June 27. The renovation of the line, which transports between 500,000 and 900,000 passengers a day and which connects
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As a scorching spring heat wave persists in Mexico City (CDMX), the capital’s Ultraviolet Radiation Index has hit its highest level yet, making unprotected sun exposure extremely dangerous. Guillermo Ayala, director of early warning for the Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection (SGIRPC), on Tuesday, May 10, warned that radiation levels in
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON Despite a recent decision by Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) to prohibit the Mexican government from promoting the upcoming and controversial mandate revocation process through state-disseminated propaganda, the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – the leftist party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) himself – has continually disregarded the
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE As some level of normalcy returns to Mexico City, more foreigners are coming to the city to live and work. hey are usually pleasantly surprised at the low cost for electricity, water, internet, cell phone service and the somewhat-low cost for natural gas, although that has recently been on the rise. But those same foreigners
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the number of reported cases of rape in Mexico City rose in 2020 to its highest incidence in seven years, only 10 out of every 100 cases are prosecuted with a guilty verdict. According to figures from the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, between Jan. 1, 2014 to April 11, 2021, 6,996 cases
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the return of the city’s prior yellow-light cautionary grade of covid-19 infections (after a brief reprieve of green), Mexico City educational authorities on Friday, June 18, announced the suspension of all face-to-face classes starting on Monday, June 21. “Given the announcement issued by the Public Health Secretariat … the Federal Educational Authority in
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The fourth stage of the Mexico City government’s vaccination program is set to begin on Wednesday, March 17, to inoculate the elderly populations of the Venustiano Carranza precinct, with the Chinese-produced SinoVac vaccine, city officials announced Monday, March 15. City officials said that they hope to inoculate 91,241 residents of the precinct, all of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Not only has Mexico City (CDMX) registered the highest numbers of covid-19 deaths worldwide during the now-year-long pandemic, but the country also ranks among the the top three with the highest number of confirmed cases of the virus, the highest mortality rates and the highest number of active cases. According to World Health Organization
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