By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Bill It will come as no surprise for most people in Mexico that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Electricity Reform Bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as programmed by Congress’ majority rule, now in the hands of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party, and will now head to the Senate. If
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite not having yet been approved by any international health organization or having had its Phase 3 clinical trials published or peer-reviewed by external sources, Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 10, approved emergency use of the controversial Chinese CanSino covid-19 vaccine. Produced by the Beijing-based CanSino Biologics, the still-experimental one-shot vaccine is alleged by China to have a
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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XINHUA Mexico has paid an advance of $159.8 million to guarantee the purchase of a successful vaccine against the novel coronavirus (covid-19) through the Covax initiative, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced on Saturday, Oct. 10. According to SRE, Mexico transferred the funds and presented risk guarantee documents for another $20.6 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which coordinates the
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XINHUA Mexico will formalize its participation in the Covax Facility, a global initiative to ensure equitable access to any vaccines against the novel coronavirus (covid-19), Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Tuesday, Sept. 23. “It would be Mexico’s first, so to speak, binding contract for access to vaccines against covid-19,” Ebrard said at a press conference, accompanied by President
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