By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Congress proposed on Friday, March 6, that the current Public Health Law for the capital be modified to allow the implementation of a covid-19 vaccine certificate that residents could use to facilitate travel and work opportunities. The legislative initiative, which is expected to pass without opposition, was first proposed by conservative National
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Shifting Fashion Capitals Could Help Make Room for Mexico By KELIN DILLON Dynamics are shifting in the fashion world, and cities across the globe, following years of the “Big Four” (New York, London, Milan, Paris — in sequential order) dominating the market, could now find the opportunity to make their own mark on the once-exclusive industry, including Mexico City. IFDAQ
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS) announced it will convert 139 of its hospitals throughout the country to help battle the coronavirus pandemic and maximize capacity, following several brushes with near-full occupancy. The IMSS said it would be appropriating 1.607 billion pesos to purchase medical supplies and equipment to distribute throughout the designated hospitals, all
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City will remain in the covid-19 red high-risk category for yet another week, until the capital’s surging number of coronavirus cases begins to subside, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said, Friday, Jan. 29, Department stores and shopping malls in the city will remain closed at least through Feb. 8, she said. Meanwhile, in the neighboring
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, that Mexico City would further increase its number of hospital beds after several hospitals reached full 100 percent capacity Monday, Jan. 11. Between Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx), 50 hospitals reached maximum occupancy at the start of the week, reaching a total of
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico City has started 2021 with a ban on single-use plastics throughout the capital, according to Mexico City’s Secretariat of Environment (Sedema). As of Jan. 1, 2021, the marketing, distribution and sale of single-use disposable plastics is no longer allowed in Mexico’s capital. Under the new ban, all plastic cutlery, straws, plates, cotton swabs, balloons, single-use coffee
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By KELIN DILLON The government of Mexico City recently announced new restrictions on the city’s population in regards to the covid-19 pandemic. The capital of Mexico has been close to re-entering the red light zone. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that there was a 4 percent increase in covid-related hospitalizations from Nov. 26 to Dec. 3. Sheinbaum said
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Even if the daily assault by the Mexican press and opinion columnists on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is no less than brutal, the problem they all face is that while he has a long-range program he strictly complies with, most of his critics live on a day-to-day basis. At the end of the road tally,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Debt Restructuring Plan The Mexican Treasury and the National Banking and Stocks Commission (CNBV) launched a national debt relief package to help borrowers and banks alike during the covid-19 pandemic-provoked economic crisis. The plan includes a downsizing of the agreed-upon interest rate and reduces the monthly amount borrowers are currently paying. All news arrangement will have to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City (CDMX) government — in what may be its last big hurrah before its own political demise con Dec. 1 — will host a nine-day celebration of the Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), starting on Saturday, Oct. 27, with a colorful traditional parade and massive pre-Columbian-style altar in the Zócalo, dedicated in part
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