Judge Orders FGR to Investigate López-Gatell’s Negligence in Covid Response
López-Gatell has — fairly or unfairly — become the target of both praise and criticism, even more than the secretary of health himself, Jorge Alcocer
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Mexico Says US Expelled 2.8 Million Migrants under Title 42
In March 2020, the Title 42 policy was introduced by former U.S. President Donald Trump. It permitted the swift expulsion of migrants during the covid-19 pandemic
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An End to Covid?
Read moreMexico Ends Covid-19 Health Emergency
López Gatell explained that Mexico decided to end the emergency due to a continuous downward trend in covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. In addition, the health undersecretary pointed to Mexico’s high level of immunity against the virus, either by infection or by vaccination
Read moreAfter Years of Delay, Mexico Launches Proprietary Covid Vaccine
Three years after Mexico announced the development of its own covid-19 vaccine, Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology Director María Elena Álvarez-Buylla revealed that the “Patria” vaccine is finally ready and has been approved for inoculation against covid-19
Read moreMorena’s Shuttering of Insabi an Admission of Failure, Say Experts
Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies — the majority bloc of which is composed of legislators from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) — approved a reform to the General Health Law, which fast-tracked the closure of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Read moreUS Ambassador Salazar Contracts Covid
Just two days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced over Twitter that he has contracted covid-19 for the third time, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reported that he too was infected with the coronavirus
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Sweet Dreams
Read moreLatin American Agro Summit Suspended Due to AMLO’s Health
Despite the fact that the government has maintained that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in “good health” and will likely be declared covid-19-free later this week, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat announced that the First High-Level Meeting for the Agri-Food Integration of Latin America had been suspended due to the president’s contagion
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The Mexican President’s Health
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