Mathematician Predicts 64,000 Covid Deaths in Mexico in 2023
López-Gatell’s public disdain for masks at the start of the pandemic may have only exacerbated the widespread contraction of the virus across the Mexican public
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Covid Deaths Surge Throughout Mexico
By KELIN DILLON In the 24 hour period from June 21 to June 22, a total of 261 people died in Mexico from covid-19, bringing the country’s death toll, as confirmed by the Secretariat of Public Health, to 231,505. Likewise, another 4,223 positive cases were recorded in the same time frame, taking Mexico’s active case load to an estimated 25,060
Read moreAMLO Promises ‘Economic Normalcy’ by End of June
XINHUA Mexico could return to “economic normality” by the end of June, with employment at the levels registered before the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Friday, March 5. Before the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the number of workers registered with the Mexican Social Security
Read moreMexican Consumer Spending, Fixed Income Plummet in 2020
XINHUA Consumer spending and gross fixed investment in Mexico plummeted in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) indicated on Friday, March 5. Consumer spending fell 11 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, while gross fixed investment plunged 18.2 percent last year, according to two separate Inegi reports. In the area
Read moreRecord Deaths Suggest Major Covid-19 Undercount
By KYLIE MADRY An almost 40 percent increase in deaths from a typical year suggests that Mexico’s official covid-19 count is much lower than the actual death toll. Mexico published its “excess death” statistics late Sunday, Oct. 25, with 193,170 more deaths through September than in an average year. Officially, 88,924 people in Mexico have died of covid-19, about half
Read moreDeath Toll Rises to 14 in Northeast Shootout
XINHUA At least four police officers and 10 suspected gunmen of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in an hour-long gun battle in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, authorities said Saturday, Nov. 30. Coahuila Governor Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís, governor of Coahuila state, said six more policemen were injured in the battle and several municipal workers were missing. The governor
Read moreTlahuelilpan Death Toll Reaches 115
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Monday, Jan. 28, the death toll as a result of the Jan. 18 in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, had reached 115, with 32 victims still hospitalized, according to the Mexican Health Secretariat. The explosion occurred at an illegal tap of the Tuxpan-Tula gasoline pipeline, just 100 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, during a gasoline
Read moreThe Many Culprits behind the Explosion, and More
By RICARDO CASTILLO At this point, the question is not so much what, where or how? The question is: Who is the real culprit behind the Jan. 18 gasoline duct explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo? A review of general opinions across Mexico regarding the blast in the obscure little township just a 100 kilometers north of Mexico City points in every
Read moreDeath Toll in Gasoline Duct Explosion Reaches 70
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 70 people died as a result of a gasoline duct explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, on Friday, Jan, 18, Mexican government authorities said. The explosion occurred late Friday night at a site where hundreds of people were trying to collect gasoline from a breach in the Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipe made by huachicoleros (gasoline
Read moreYemen’s Great Divide
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If there is a single nation on Earth today that is closest to the verge of collapse, it is Yemen. Since the splintered country’s grisly civil war first erupted seven years ago, more than 10,000 civilians have died, according to United Nations’ estimates (although Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates adamantly reject these figures). And, with
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