By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Monday, May 9, that he had signed an agreement with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel the day before in Havana to import Cuban medications — including infant vaccines against the covid-19 virus — and to hire 800 Cuban doctors. During his daily press conference at the National
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flew to Cuba on Sunday, May 8, to meet with that island nation’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel. During his daylong visit, López Obrador, who was accompanied by his top military brass, placed flowers at a monument for Cuban poet José Martí, who is considered the ideologue of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Poorly designed, twice as expensive and scantily delivered. Those were the qualities attributed by frontline medical personnel to the Ehécatl 4T ventilators developed by Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) in 2020 to confront the covid-19 pandemic. From its very first day in circulation throughout various public hospitals, the ventilator developed by
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER If the cancellation of the construction of New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) in Texcoco had devastating effects on the Mexican economy — due to the exorbitant cost (estimated by the government’s own Superior Audit offices as being somewhere between 184 billion pesos and 332 billion pesos) but also because of the dubious signal it
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OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Like everything else with an uncertain future, predictions for the year ahead are just that: prognoses that could or could not come to pass. That said, and with no crystal ball in hand, here are four broad predictions that most likely could be agreed upon by most in the Western Hemisphere for 2022: emerging
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is a great defender of the concept of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries … except, when he’s not. Should the country in question be a pseudo-democracy such as Venezuela or Cuba, then he is more than willing to toss his unflinching values of nonintervention out the window
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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