PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to host a four-day wooden puppet festival from Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday, Aug. 28. The annual festival, titled Wooden Hearts and now in its second year, will showcase four plays using puppets by the Teatrapos puppet company. On Thursday, Aug, 25, at 8 p.m., the group will
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XINHUA Children living in impoverished areas are the most vulnerable group in Mexico due to a lack of adequate education services during the covid-19 pandemic, according to Maria Teresa Reyes Ruiz, a social sciences researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Most households suffered a drop in income or unemployment of at least one family member, impacting the
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to present “Imaginary Opera, and Ballet Too,” an comic interpretation of operatic works and classical dance aimed at children, thorough the month of July. The series, which will be performed in Cenart’s Theater of the Arts, will open with a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adapted to Spanish,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Medical authorities in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo confirmed Friday, May 20, that a three-year-old child that had died the day before had succumbed to a new severe form of hepatitis of unknown origin that has been appearing in children around the world. Hidalgo authorities have reporter three more suspected cases of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Thursday, April 28, all children in Mexico age 12 and over, regardless of their personal health status, will be able to register on line to receive a covid-19 vaccination, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell announced Tuesday, April 26. “These vaccines are no longer just for girls and boys with pre-existing conditions,” said
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, April 13, that his administration will begin vaccinating children against covid-19 starting in May, as long as Mexico receives the needed vaccines from the Covax (United Nations Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility) mechanism. “We have paid in advance for a batch of vaccines from the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE If you were asked what values you think children should learn, you might come up with some variation of the typical four that come to mind after family: respect for others, appropriate leisure activities, belief (religion) and work ethics. However, those concepts could be considered more activities than values. What if you were given a
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a new ruling by Mexico’s federal court, all children between the ages of 12 to 17 will be able to vaccinated against covid-19 with the vaccine approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) for use in minors, Pfizer-BioNtech, going into effect on Thursday, Oct. 14. The order will adapt Mexico’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Children in Mexico with compromised health will begin receiving covid-19 vaccinations as of mid-October, the government announced Friday, Oct. 24. Speaking during the daily press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell said that Mexican children between the ages of 12 and 17 with chronic health
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