Two Planes Collide on Mexico City Airport Runway
The crash occurred between the wingtip of an Aeroméxico plane and the stabilizer of a Delta Airline plane
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Aeroméxico Stock Crashes to Near Worthlessness
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The value of stocks in Mexico’s official airlines, Aeroméxico, plunged by 29 percent, to just .41 pesos per unit, on Wednesday, March 16 — their lowest price ever — as the company began the final steps to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Aeroméxico won a U.S. court permission to emerge from Chapter 11 in
Read moreAMLO Returns to Live Press Conference after Week in Quarantine
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An unmasked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) appeared live in his daily presser Monday, Jan. 17, saying that he no longer had symptoms of covid-19 (which he was confirmed to have contracted for the second time exactly one week earlier). During the conference, AMLO said that he “cleared” the covid contagion and
Read moreAeroméxico Drops $80.4 in Value Over Two Days
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s flag carrier airline, Aeroméxico, experienced massive losses at the end of last week, losing more than $80.4 million in value over the course of two days and dropping stock prices to 1.66 pesos per share, the airline’s lowest share price in history. While having a $118.6 million market share as of Wednesday, Dec. 15, Aeroméxico lost
Read moreAll Mexicans to Receive AstraZeneca Covid Boosters
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Dec. 10, that all Mexicans will receive booster shots against the covid-19 virus. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in the northern state of Chihuahua, AMLO said that the federal government will administer AstraZeneca boosters to all eligible Mexicans in accord with internationally
Read moreAMLO Fest Attracts Massive, Unmasked Crowd, Offers Same Old Rhetoric
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The massive public party in the capital’s main plaza Zócalo on Wednesday, Dec. 1, to commemorate Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) third year in office attracted more than 250,000 jubilant, mostly unmasked revelers, and offered up little in the way of new rhetoric from the president. The giant forget-any-semblance-of-social-distancing fiesta, which was
Read moreMexico City Returns to Orange without Added Restrictions
By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
Read moreCovid’s Delta Variant Sweeps Through Mexico
By KELIN DILLON A third wave of covid-19 is currently in the midst of affecting Mexico after the highly-contagious Delta variant made its way into the country, causing cases to surge once more. Just on Tuesday, July 13, alone, more than 11,000 people tested positive for the virus, the highest new case count in a single day since January of
Read moreActive Covid Cases Up 19 Percent in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of active covid-19 cases in Mexico during the week of June 13 through June 19 surged by 19 percent compared to the previous week, the Public Health Secretariat reported on Friday, July 2. Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) had the highest number of active cases, with more than 3,000
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