By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cartel violence in Mexico has continued to increase since the beginning of the drug war in 2006, and despite government efforts to put an end to it, continues to add victims to its list of causalities on a daily basis. The number of homicides in Mexico went from 9,921 deaths in 2005 to 35,679
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By KELIN DILLON New reports from the controversial construction of Mexico’s new airport, which is newly under jurisdiction of the nation’s military, say workers on the project are allegedly being charged some 20 to 30 percent of their salaries to continue working there by their military superiors. The workers, many of whom come from the cancelled New Mexico International Airport
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By KELIN DILLON Heavy storms across the central states of Mexico on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6, caused massive floods throughout the region, resulting in the deaths of 17 hospital patients and widespread damage. In Hidalgo, the state north of Mexico City, a hospital run by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), reported water levels up to a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat (SSA) on Monday, July 12, finally acknowledged that the county has entered its third wave of the covid-19 pandemic after infections surged 29 percent in just one week. According to the SSA, the majority of new cases of coronavirus infections are of younger Mexicans, most of whom have yet to
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico could have prevented 190,000 covid-19 related deaths in the nation had it managed the pandemic in a more efficient manner. “Mexico’s Response to Covid-19: A Case Study” was carried out by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) by commission from the WHO as
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By KELIN DILLON The beginning of Mexico’s political campaign season back in September of last year seemed to also be a declaration of open season on its politicians, considering 64 politicians having met their untimely demise by assassination in the months following up until Jan. 31, according to a report by Integralia Consultants. The report found that the violence was
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XINHUA Aas of Saturday, Nov. 14, Mexico had reported more than 1 million confirmed cases of covid-19 infections, the country’s Health Secretariat said. With at least 5,860 new novel coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the country’s totll number of confirmed cases Saturday was 1,003,253, the secretariat said. Meanwhile, 635 more deaths were reported that day, bringing the death
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to tout his administration’s “exemplary” management in controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19 infections (despite the fact that the country ranks in fourth place in the number of covid deaths, with nearly 66,000 deceased and almost 611,000 confirmed cases as of late
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XINHUA The total number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the Americas has crossed the 10 million mark, accounting for over half of the global tally, according to data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, Aug. 7. As of 10 a.m. CET (0800 GMT) on Friday, 154,118 new covid-19 cases had been reported in the Americas during the
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