By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an unprecedented effort to inoculate older Mexicans against the covid-19 coronavirus, Mexico City registered a record 81,500 residents over age 60 of the upscale Miguel Hidalgo precinct immunized during a one-week period, city officials announced Sunday, March 14. On Sunday, the capital government completed its vaccination campaign in Miguel Hidalgo, immunizing a total
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The Ethical Implications of Indigenous-Sourced Inspiration By KELIN DILLON “Bad artists copy, good artists steal!” Or so goes the famous quote. Much can be said about the deeper meaning of the words — to make something your own, and better, is an art in and of itself. However, when it comes to stealing designs from indigenous Mexican artisans, it isn’t
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XINHUA A Mexican federal judge sentenced two men to nine and 12 years in prison, respectively, for transporting 118 undocumented Central American migrants via cargo truck through southeastern Mexico, the federal Fiscal General’s Office said on Saturday, Dec. 5. According to the Mexican prosecutor’s office, the judge, based in the state of Chiapas, ruled that the two individuals were guilty
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XINHUA Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday, Nov. 27, that he was “unjustly” detained at the airport in the capital city of Tegucigalpa due to have $18,000 in cash in his bag. “I have been unjustly detained at the Toncontín International Airport when I was about to travel to Mexico for a PT seminar,” Zelaya said on Twitter.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In response to a request from Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), on Wednesday, Nov. 11, the French Embassy here presented the Mexican Red Cross with a check for the some of 60,000 euros — roughly 1.45 million pesos — the French Embassy said. The French donation will be used to help families affected by
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XINHUA At least 27 people have died and thousands have been displaced or left homeless from severe flooding in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco as a result of unprecedented downpours in the region, top officials said on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. “There was record rainfall,” said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his morning press
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By KYLIE MADRY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long been disliked by members of the opposition parties, who formed the country’s ruling class until AMLO and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took power. That distaste is turning into open revolt, as the president faces threats from the rightwing National Anti-AMLO Front (Frena), the newly formed Sí por
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By KYLIE MADRY México Libre Isn’t Free México Libre, the political organization founded by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala, won’t be recognized as a political party after all, following a ruling by Mexico’s National Electoral Tribunal on Wednesday, Oct. 14. This isn’t the group’s first roadblock on the way to registering as a legitimate political
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XINHUA At least 13 people were killed and 21 injured after a passenger bus veered off the road in southeast Mexico and crashed into a wall before daybreak on Monday, Sept. 28, according to local authorities. The crash was reported at 5:30 a.m. local time on the road between the towns of La Trinitaria and Frontera Comalapa, in the southern
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