Is North America Worth the Investment?
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico Soon to Roll Out Covid-19 Jabs for Ages 5 to 11
By MARK LORENZANA Children in Mexico between 5 and 11 years of age will soon get a covid-19 jab, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell announced on Tuesday, June 14. López-Gatell, in his weekly health report, announced during Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) morning press conference that the government has acquired 8 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to
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Mexico’s Fifth Wave of Covid
Read moreAn Americas Summit, without AMLO
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexico’s Environmental Contingency Plan and the Covid Pandemic
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
Read moreMexican Navy Now Oversees Medications, All Medical Permits
PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another step toward the full militarization of the country (the Army and National Guard are already overseeing more than 30 activities that were, just three years ago, considered the sole domain of civil authorities), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, June 7, that the country’s Navy (Semar) has now taken full
Read moreCovid Infections up Again in Mexico, Despite Vaccinations
PULSE NEWS MEXICO While Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Undersecretary of Public Health (SSA) Hugo López-Gatell, proclaimed in April that the country had finally overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the incidence of the disease has once again begun to tick upward, with more than 18,000 cases confirmed in the first week of June. Between Sunday, May 29, and Saturday, June 4, the country
Read moreMassive Migrant Caravan Heads North as Summit Nears End
PULSE NEWS MEXICO A caravan of several thousand Latin American migrants, including many from Venezuela, began slowly winding its way north on Monday, June 6, from Tapachula, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, in the hopes of reaching the U.S. border just as the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, concludes. According to some estimates, the
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Missing the Concept of Face Masks
Read moreIrregularities of 40 Million Pesos Found in Highway Toll Collections
By MARK LORENZANA The Federal Roads and Bridges and Related Services (CAPUFE), a federal government agency in Mexico that operates and maintains federally owned roads and bridges, has found irregularities amounting to almost 40 million pesos related to toll collection on the Chamapa-Lechería highway in 2021. The audit has yet to be completed, so full details have not been released,
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