By KELIN DILLON Former interim governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, Jorge Torres López, was sentenced to three years in federal prison by a Texas court on Wednesday, June 23, for the crime of money laundering. The 67-year-old, who replaced Humberto Moreira as Coahuila’s governor for a brief time in 2011, pleaded guilty to the charges in June 2020.
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The remains of the seventh and final excavation worker missing after a collapse of a coal mine in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila one week earlier were located late Thursday night, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Friday, June 11, during his early morning press conference. According to the Coahuila Labor Secretariat,
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By KELIN DILLON As of 6 p.m. Sunday, June 6, three bodies had been recovered from the Mexican mine in Múzquiz, Coahuila, which collapsed on Friday, June 4. At least seven miners were trapped inside the caved-in mine after they accidentally penetrated the wall of an adjoining mine, reportedly flooding it, leaving the hopes for any of the workers making
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least seven miners were trapped underground on Friday, June 4, when the walls of a small-scale coal mine collapsed in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, just south of Texas. According to the Coahuila Labor Secretariat, the mine, located just outside the town of Muzquiz, collapsed when the walls of an adjoining inactive mine
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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By ADRIANA GARCÍA VALDERRAMA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that he foresees that as soon as all the nation’s education personnel gets vaccinated against the covid-19 virus, classes will return to “normal” to conclude the 2020-2021 school year with live classes. According to Mexican Secretary of Public Education Delfina Gómez, vaccination is already underway in Aguascalientes, Baja
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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than
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