By MARK LORENZANA The arrival of Cuban doctors in Mexico will continue as long as there is a demand for specialists, said Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), as more Cuban physicians were deployed in the country on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — this time in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Campeche. Around 50 Cuban doctors arrived
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By MARK LORENZANA Even as 10 miners remain trapped in a collapsed mine in the Mexican state of Coahuila, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been reportedly paying 500,000 pesos a day for the aid — in the form of a firefighting ship — that it has provided Cuba to help the island nation extinguish a
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As a massive crude oil fire in the Cuban port of Matanzas continued to burn for a second day, spreading to yet another storage tank and threatening the island nation’s already-limited energy supply, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Aug. 6, announced that he would be sending humanitarian assistance in the form of military
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Years ago, my mother got a letter from her sister in Cuba complaining about the lack of food. and especially seafood. So my mother said to her Cuban friend, “Can you believe that? No fish in Cuba.” And her friend said, “How can that be? It’s an island. I remember going fishing and catching everything.” And
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than three and a half years of the same old spiel (“neoliberals are to blame for everything that’s wrong with the country,” “the conservative press are all unscrupulous liars,” and that most absurd claim of all, “my government is not corrupt”), it seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is finally beginning
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By MARK LORENZANA Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), said on the morning of Tuesday, July 19, at Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conference, that of more than 14,000 vacancies that were intended to be filled under the government’s medical specialist recruitment program, only 2,621 doctors had been hired in the country. And
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By MARK LORENZANA The immigration issue needs to be a joint effort between Mexico and the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden told his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), during their conversation at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 12. López Obrador urged Biden to adapt an aggressive program to resolve immigration
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Danzón, a type of synchronized, stylized ballroom dance with emphatic pauses and a definitive romantic air performed to slow Latin rhythms, is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba, rooted in colonial times and fused from a blend of habanera two-step, European waltz and African cadence. But in Mexico, it has been a vital part of
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. A couple of nights ago, I got a taste of what politics in Colombia is all about these days. A 40-something Colombian lady in my class said she was worried about her country going to the left. Another young woman from Colombia had a smile on her face that reminded me of the Barack
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