By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is expected to present Mexico’s 2022 Budget to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 8, the country is not expected to have any significant advances in public spending due to a number of debilitating economic factors brought on by the effects of the year-and-a-half-long covid-19 pandemic. During 2020 and
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico fast approaches its Aug. 30 start date for in-person education for children, the implementation of its back-to-school plan has been fraught with confusion for Mexican families nationwide. Some parents have noted that their children who go to public and private schools have two different returns to class, with the public schools being completely in-person while
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 16, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell said that there is no scientific evidence indicating that the Chinese CanSino vaccine against coronavirus, used heavily throughout Mexico, would require a second booster shot to maintain effectiveness. López-Gatell claimed that the widespread reports encouraging another dose of the vaccine are simply “a large
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Last week, Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat acknowledged that the country had surpassed the 3-million-case mark of covid-19 cases. And those were just the confirmed cases. Because of low testing rates and questionable recordkeeping practices, many national and international medical experts estimate that the real number of covid cases in Mexico could be 25 or 30 times higher
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Thursday, Aug. 12, the head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez announced the nation’s 10.step plan for the return to in-person classes, which are set to resume on Aug. 30, after more than a year long break caused by the covid-19 pandemic. “Why open schools? Children need shelter due to
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By KELIN DILLON Early in the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 11, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Ken Salazar as the new United States ambassador to Mexico after the role remained vacant for more than half a year. “Many of us in the White House and beyond stand on the shoulders of Ken Salazar, a giant in the Latino
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 9, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a phone call with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Mexican Secretary of the Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard, to ensure a further supply of vaccinations against covid-19 from the United States to Mexico. “We are going to talk on Monday to give continuity to
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By KELIN DILLON After testing positive for covid-19, former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada, who was in office from 2000 to 2006, and his wife Martha Sahagún were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 7, to treat the illness. Both Fox and his wife are reportedly stable with no serious symptoms. The former first couple of Mexico had already completed their full
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal
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