All three presidential candidates – Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and Jorge Álvarez Máynez – are expected to sign the “Commitment to Peace” come Monday, March 11
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The ongoing (and scandalous) saga of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) versus the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) in the persecution of 31 prestigious scientists and academics for the alleged misuse of use of federal resources has begun to taint the political aspirations of Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the heir apparent of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón on Monday, July 12, formally announced his intention to run for the candidacy on president in the 2024 elections. Ebrard made the announcement during a small lunch meeting with a group of his closest collaborators, sparking an immediate rally-like response from the attending supporters For most
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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 For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
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By KELIN DILLON International attention was brought to the Mexican government’s mishandling of nation’s covid resurgence in a New York Times article published on Monday, Dec. 21, by Natalie Kitroeff. The Mexican government had reassured its constituents that Mexico City had not reached case levels high enough to re-enter the red zone during a briefing on Dec. 4. However, according
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, a party with over 100 attendees was broken up by authorities early in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 14, for violating citywide mandates on large gatherings. In a video uploaded to social media, the partygoers were seen being forced out of an illegally operated basement venue at Palmas 810
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By KELIN DILLON Due to the rapidly increasing spread of coronavirus, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo set aside the covid-19 traffic light system and declared the capital in a state of emergency on Friday, Dec. 11. The mayor’s announcement came after 2,893 residents of Mexico City were hospitalized in the past week alone. Daily hospitalizations in Mexico City have
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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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